JB/036/046/001

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1821 May 15.
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Constitution
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Instruments
Delusion
Downright falshood
False insinuation

Splendour, lustre of the Crown, the Throne, &c.

Not only in respect of the magnitude of the scale, but in respect
of the evil done by a given Sum thus obtained, the evil produced
by money obtained by false pretences by acknowledged malefactors for
their own use is inconsiderable in comparison of the evil produced
by money obtained on these pretences by those by whom the powers of Government
are possessed and applied to this use.

1. Where it is by the acknowledged malefactor that money
obtained on a punishable false pretence is obtained the mischief
of the second order is, if not nothing, next to nothing. In the
eyes of each man, his own prudence is a sufficient security against
the repetition of such practices at his expense. No such
security can be seen or fancied by the prostrate subject — the helpless remediless
labourer — from whose hands the produce of his labour is wrung from
him on this pretence. T

To the physical sufferance from extortion, and the fear of
endlessly encreasing extortion is added in this case the moral evil
constituted by the false pretence. On the part of some of those from whom the
money is wrung, a falshood, perhaps, produces its intended effect —
the delusion is produced. Whether any such deception dupery is experienced
by those who are active or willing contributors to those exercises of
irresistible power by which the extortion is produced, let any man judge.

Identifier: | JB/036/046/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-05-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	046	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10970
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