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C
Offences against the National Interest in general
But all states are more or less in a state of real jealousy. If a
foreign government gives you a pension, it certainly is not without
cause. It is probably for certain services. Those services in
proportion as they are beneficial to the foreign state may be prejudicial
to your own (a). In what way? In any of the ways in
which human ingenuity can be prejudicial: but in what way
in particular, so long as it is not known what the services are,
cannot be understood. It is proper therefore that the pensioner should
be known; and registered; as also and the assigned cause for which he receives this pension;
and that the more publickly the better; and then it belongs
to the government to determine whether it shall give leave. As
to the details proper to be observed in such those registers this is a
matter of local consideration.
The Punishment for non-registering should be capable. Punishment
at least of being raised to a level with that of treason. For as
between nations a state of apparent amity is oftentimes a state of
real enmity, services thus bought may reasonably be suspected
of>
Note.
(a) A Lewis the in France and a Catharine in Russia have given rewards
for services rendered to all mankind. But all Sovereigns are not either Lewis's or Catharines. Among
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