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1821 March 29. 1822 Aug. 5.
Rid Yourselves

22.
Others excluded (Art 95.)
1. Secretaries of State
2. Counsellors of State.
3. Officers of King's Houshd.

23.
Not excluded. Pensioners
during King's pleasure.
Forgotten to be excluded? Or remembered not to be
inserted?

24.
Spaniards! Only from a
foreigner – from one without
hope of profit from
corrupt obsequiousness
could you receive this information.
Without being either
Elector or Representative,
fortunately for you he
has rendered you this
service. Will you, for
that reason, deprive
yourselves of the benefit
of it?

25.
In Art 129, in a parenthesis,
comes a reason
for the temporary
exclusion from lucrative
office: and then
another. To us, both unintelligible,
you have
my reasons. Effect of
corrupt obsequiousness
in that situation thus
purchased, perpetual sacrifice
of the universal
to a particular interest.
Take your choice.

26.
Yet, if reproach gall you,
fear not want of company.
Alike efficacious the only
bars as yet set up against
corruptive influence under
the matchless English
Constitution: envy and
admiration of all nations,
or that ever will be
till it is drowned in its
own filth.

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27.
Will you sit to be cheated
pillaged and oppressed
for no better reason than
that others are so too?

28.
To the present purpose,
in regard to corrupt influence,
all that it is necessary
to say is – that if
restoration of misrule and
misery is worth excluding,
so is corruptive influence:
thence, so is every unnecessary
addition to the
corruption fund: and
that to this fund every
mass of profit, power, &
factitious dignity that wd.
be employed in the endeavour
to support the claim
is an addition.

29.
For the ratio of this part
of the public expenditure
to the remainder. See Introduction,
§.6.

30.
[A compound of Sugar
and arsenic is your Constitution.
Will you clear
it of the arsenic? to a foreign
hand you must

be indebted for the clearance.]

31.
Will you suffer your rulers
to sacrifice every substantial
interest to that
fantastic one which has
its root in national pride?
Shall it be said, there sits
that foreigner who cared
more for Spaniards than
they for themselves?

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32.
Compleatly to exclude the
operation of the matter of
corruptive influence in
the hands of the members
of the executive, or the
probity of do. of the legislative
is not possible:
towards it, in addition
to removability, all that
can be done is – to minimize
the number of
beneficial efficient situations,
and the value of
each.

33.
For the Act of A. the law
must not punish B: if
it does, it puts it in the
power of any adversary
of B's to punish him.
Should he vote for augmentation
of the corruption
fund, the law
can not punish him because
his son, brother, or
nephew, has thereby obtained
a lucrative office.
But, in such a case,
public opinion may
punish him.

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Date_1	1821-03-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	22-33
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