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1821. April 25.
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(6.)
Constitutional
Finance

But, in this instance good, another good economy, in
an additional shape, is found practicable and profitable. Instead
of no more than ten or twenty times the salary necessary for the
maintenance of an individual of the productively labouring
class, let two hundred or though it were but a hundred times that
amount be allotted, individuals might, in the very highest rank,
next to that of the Royal Family, be found — individuals in multitudes
who, being in a state of constant appetancy for such a place and thence in a state of constant competition with each other,
will thereby be placed in a state of equally constant and proportionably
object corrupt obsequiousness with relation to the
corruptive influence exercised with or without his caring or thinking
any thing about the matter by the Royal Proprietor of these
consecrated quadrupeds. So many as there are of these competitors,
so many men are there whose votes, and, in so far as they have
the faculty of speech, their speeches, as in readiness to contribute do whatsoever
is in their power to contribute, to the fulfilment of the will, and the
gratification of the correspondent appetite, of him whom it is their
ambition to be entitled to denominate designate by the appellation of their
Royal Master. Thus much in that House which is stiled Right
Honourable; but in some if not all these instances, what will
have place moreover is that, to these several superlatively, although
it be but positively noble persons, may appertain, through
the medium of this or that borough, or of this or that county, a
seat or seats, to the number of from two to ten in that other
House so inferior in dignity, so superior in power, which, in
style and title, is no more than simply honourable. And thus
it is that, so far as regards that portion of salary which would
have been found necessary for that manager of horses who could
undertake for the management of horses but for nothing else,
one and the same quantity of the matter of wealth thus employed
in political waste, is employed, without addition, in two of the three
purposes at once: viz gratification to Royal appetite, and securing
a corrupt obsequiousness by means of corruptive influence. As

Identifier: | JB/036/028/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	028	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10952
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