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middle term in a logical demonstration: as thus –

The greater the quantity of the money taken out of the pockets
of a people by a King, the greater is their prosperity –
Proof
The greater the quantity of money taken out of the pockets of
a people by their King, the greater is the quantity of it which
can be applied to the augmentation of the lustre of his throne:
but
The greater the lustre of the King's throne the greater is the prosperity
of his people.
Ergo
The greater the quantity of the money taken out of the
pockets of a people by their King, the greater is their prosperity.

In my last I had begun presenting to your view the
contrast which so much to its advantage the Office of a Newspaper
Editor makes with the Cabinet of a King. The Intellectual and the Active
were the only branches of appropriate aptitude which on that occasion
time would admit the mention of. Too important, however,
by far too important, is the remaining branch – the moral –
to be definitively passed over in silence. And in this instance
likewise the advantage (you will see) is not less remarkably
and unquestionably on the same side.

Fourthly, as to Corruptiveness. – At daggers-drawn with
appropriate moral aptitude is, as you cannot but see, sinister interest.
Open – wide open – to the seducing voice of that Syren, are the ears of every
King, and thence of every man to whom admittance has been
given into that seat and source of corruption called his Cabinet.
Opposite – effectually and diametrically opposite – to the interest of the
community at large is the interest – the particular and sinister interest
– of these its ever faithless trustees. Extract (says – says to them in
unceasing whispers – that traitorous Counsellor), extract from the
substance of every laborer from whose labour the matter of subsistence
and abundance receives its increase, extract from it for
your own use the greatest quantity possible: Such is the advice
the Syren gives: and in that place, wide open to receive it does
it find all ears into which it is whispered. The greatest? – no;
but the least possible quantity, says the interest of the whole
people.

Closed – effectually closed – against that same seductive
voice are the ears in his situation the ears of that President
of the Public Opinion Tribunal whom my former letter presented
to your view. At his disposal, of the whole mass of the
matter of corruption not a particle has he: as little has he any
motive for making application of it – of any portion of it – if any
he had, to a corruptive purpose, – for employing it in any manner
in which the aggregate stock of the happiness of the community
will be lessened by it. How so? I answer – even because, upon
the estimation in which he is held by the whole community

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	023	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	149	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 f12 / d5 f15
Penner		Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	8020
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