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look at the Addresses so regular made in answer – in echoing answer – to
those speeches: look whether the support of the dignity, lustre, and splendour
of the crown or the throne is not put upon the list of acknowledged and
acknowledged to be indispensable duties; and whether any limits are ever
supposed to be applicable to the quantity of the money which ought
to be, and is designed and determined to be, thus employed.

Belgians! another exemplification – would you another exemplification
– of the influence of the matter of corruption, look back to
Revolution the first of France: look at the pay – the enormous pay –
given under it to the King; Civil list, how uncharacteristic so ever,
is the appellation now every where given to it: look at the whole of the
official establishment – the enormous pile of gold – raised to so many
times its necessary and proper height, all for the support of that one
head functionary, his crown & dignity: look back to this instructive
object, and note and think how it fell to pieces.

Good (says somebody): but in a democracy is it otherwise? Is not
man man under every form of government? Unquestionably.
But behold one difference; and it makes a complete and decisive one. In a
democracy, whoever among the functionaries is bad, the people can get rid
of him. But under a Monarchy, how many soever are bad, not one of them
can the people get rid of: neither the King nor any the least one of all his
instruments. So also under an Aristocracy. So also under an Aristocracy-ridden
Monarchy. A King, look at him! look where he sits! Who does he
sit for? Who but himself? for him were the people made; not for the people
he. An Aristocracy – would you see a pattern of it in an Aristocracy-ridden
Monarchy? look to England: look at the Peers: behold where they
sit: who do they sit they for? for themselves. What? for nobody else? No:
not for anybody else; unless it be for the King, to give support to his
throne – support to it against the people. In a democracy, the
representatives of the people, deputed as such by the people, are trustees,
expressly and seriously-declared and self-acknowledged trustees, of the
people. Under a Monarchy, absolute or aristocracy-ridden, – under a
pure aristocracy, – all trusteeship is out of the question. Under a
Monarchy, in a rhetorical flourish, on the stage, or by the heir
to a crown before his coming to it, in a convivial meeting, or in a
letter, – yes: But as to any practical application of it, – there
the matter ends.

A pretty supplement this (says somebody); a supplement longer than
the main draught to which it is tacked! Alas! this is but too true!
But matter there is in it which must not be omitted; and of the
whole together neither condemnation nor curtailment can be made:
time runs on and will not stay for it. Moreover this same supplement,
if it is good for anything, will be good for the display
at length which has been made of the nature of political corruption
in my Letter to the people of France on Second Chambers
and Peers.

Now for the practical conclusion. Of all this what do I give
as the practical conclusion? that for your King – if you must
have one – for your King, be he who he may, there shall be no pay?
that under him in the several departments there shall be no functionaries?
or that for none of those same functionaries there
shall be any pay? Think not that any one any more than any
other of these several conceptions ever had place in any plan of
mine.

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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	002	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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