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1821. April 26.

To support the dignity of the Crown, to add splendour
to the Crown, to add lustre to the Crown, so many
phrases upon the strength of which money wrung from a
starving people by scarcely supportible taxation, is day by day by the creatures
and dependents of the Monarch called for without
measure and without shame: called for and granted accordingly with what effect?
With the effect of labouring in vain to fill overfull the ever
leaky cup of his personal gratification of giving any encreasing
force or perpetual encrease to the delusion by which
the seat of necessary depravity is converted into the seat of
imaginary and fabled excellence and in making every
day fresh and fresh advances towards the accomplishment
of the constant object of all endeavours – the conversion of a
scarce disguised into the more simple and convenient form of
an undisguised and openly avowed despotism.

It has been seen to what inevitable necessity by
the original and unchangeable nature of man, an irremovable
Chief Magistrate call him Duke, call him Consul,
call him King, call him Emperor, call him what you
will, is an enemy to all that are subject to his rule,
with the exception of those who are sharers with him
in the sinister profit – and that enemy an implacable one.

What at the same time is no less manifest is that
by every step by which any advance can be made towards
dissolving the disastrous association by which the instruments
of vice and misery are palmed upon mankind as the
necessary instruments of virtue security, and universal happiness, a real service
and that a most important one will be rendered

Identifier: | JB/036/013/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	19-21
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	013	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c10 / e9
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10937
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