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1830. Nov. 27
J.B. to Belgians

I.1 1.
Hear me speak like a
Belgian

I.2 2
As per Protestant Pope,
an old man's blessing,
so an old man's advice
will do you no harm.

I.3 3.
The frogs praying to Jupiter
he gave them Log, then
Stork, Stork gobbled them
up.

3*
☞ Postpone this or discard
it.

I.4 3*
Under King Gwelf depredation
has always
gone on but like Whig
reform gradually lest
the frogs swelling to
oxen should break
storks bill and bones.

I.5 4.
Read this fable; applied,
not; better it had.

I.6 5.
Best determining hope – that
King will not be like Charles
a Stork but like Louis Philippe
a Log.

II.1 6 King useless
What better hope? 1. King
love you better than yourselves?
2. Know what is
best for you better than
you all together?

II.2 7. King useless
Questions these
1. What in particular
would or could a King
do for you that you
could not do for yourselves?
2. What better than you could
for yourselves?
3. What ground for presuming
his successor chosen by an
inscrutable cause and irremoveable
would better than
men chosen by yourselves &
removable?

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II.3 8. King useless
Stork in voracity, Log in
irremovability you King
may be.

II.4 9. King Useless
Difficult to say what the
better for him

III.1 10. King bad
Easy, a what the worse:
sufficient in quantity
and certainty to warrant
practical conclusion.

III.2 11. King bad
I. Costly
The worse – namely, first
in money matters: guilders
being easier weighed,
thence good government
in other respects
measured.

III.3 12 King bad
I. Costly
To begin at the head. In
the U.S. President.
Pay Dollars 25,000.
King's what? Not less
but any times more
than from 20 to 50
times as much.

III.4. 13. King bad
I. Costly
Pay given there and
this being then and there
necessary and the custom
everywhere. These
and with you now no
man is warranted in
saying yes.

III.5. 14. King bad
I. Costly
JB's maxims as to pay.
1. Service non paid where
gratuitous is to be had.
2. Greater pay given now
where for less it is to be had
3. Whose says a
unpaid functionary will
not serve so well as a paid,
on him rests the proof.
3d For the contrary see
further on.
4. So as between higher
and lower-paid.

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III.6 15. King bad
I. Costly
Pay, viz. pecuniary. Use
of pay, furnishing inducement
– so in office power
is inseparably attached to
the duty, & may furnish
inducement supreme
to man: in so much
that money is given
for it.

III.7 16. King bad
I. Costly
To know what a man
will for,
ask him.

III.8. 27. King bad
I. Costly
To know what he who
of a number of persons
asks least will serve
for ask them – viz.
in the way of competition
and the
species called
auction.

III.9. 18. King bad
I. Costly
That competition &
even in the shape of
auction are less
applicable to public
than private rests
the onus probandi.

III.10. 19. King bad
I. Costly
Cause of the non-application
1. sinister
interest of rulers
in our shapes.

III.11. 20. King bad
I. Costly
Fallacious modes of
confounding competition
& auction.

III.12. 21. King bad
I. Costly
Objection giving the place
to him who will do the duty
on the lowest terms or
even give money for it
how unfit
is your economy!

Identifier: | JB/023/161/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 23.
Date_1	1830-11-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3, 3*, 4-27
Box	023	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	161	Info in main headings field	jb to belgians
Image	002	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1 / e2
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	8032
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