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1822 June 28

On not near so good a footing are subjects in the eyes and hands of
the best tempered Monarch. Of the whole number of them no
more than a very small part at the utmost are ever under
his eye: those who are worst treated, those whose sufferings
are greatest from the treatment they receive under his government
are never, especially while endure enduring that treatment
under his eye. Among them of this whole number there will always be a large
portion by which his ill-will his anger will continually
be called forth. By Every obstruction afforded by any one of them
to the fulfilment of his will his anger will be called forth
and such obstructions howsoever kept under by fear and
hopes must notwithstanding be universal and continual.
Whatsoever quantity of the external instruments of potents
the happiness at any time to him whose hands on it has immediate command he is never satisfied with it. He
never can be satisfied with it so long as he sees around him
any other of those instruments that are not equally
at his command. In his decrees are included those
of all other the persons attached to his immediate service and
of those persons there are not any that are or ever can
be compleatly satisfied.

Seeing that is gain in happiness never can have place
but by means of and loss to them and that by of every such
from loss to them to a prodigiously greater amount is as
a certain never failing accompaniment, what he can not entirely
help avoid the perception of is – that of the suffering thus produced
by him ill-will to an amount more or less considerable
in the instance of every such sufferer is liable to be the consequence.
In time in a word he beholds his means Among them in a large though near exactly determinate proportion so many
enemies: by the contemplation of enmity on their part enmity on his part is produced.
In the This gratification of this enmity as well as for keeping down resistance,
and securing against non payment the continually encreasing
quantity exacted by him of the instruments of felicity exacted by him at
their expence, the afflictiveness of the penal law is continually screwed up
to the highest amount
that is thought to be
consistent with their
sufficiency.
Thus it is that in the very best tempered Monarch by far the greatest number of the rest of the community have an enemy, and that enemy an especially
implacable one. If under such a Monarch such is their condition, what must it be under an ordinary one.

Identifier: | JB/036/104/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-06-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-8
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a3 / b3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11028
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