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1822 June 24
Junctiania Proposae

would ease the Company of the cares of Government:
she would do, for the Company, and continued to do
as she has always done, well and to perfection, that
which, for the Company to do for itself, in any tolerable
manner, and for any length of time, would be morally
impossible.

The company being at the expence of the
fortifications, these same fortifications would, on both
sides, - and in particular on that which is most material,
the Atlantic side - be in the hands of the Company:
here, so long as the fortifications remained
untouched, would be even against the inhabitants themselves -
the inhabitants of the Junctiana territory, a
security — a substantial security for the main source of
profit — the price of transit. Together with the fortifications, to
the company would belong the the function and expence of
garrisoning them. This it might do without considerable danger to itself:
without considerable danger from infrugality and peculation: out
of two small garrisons, the number of official situations
being determinate, no great pickings could be made.

But in case of aggression from any distant
power, how would the fortifications be to be defended?
By land, indeed, under a government such as here proposed the assistance of the inhabitants of the
territory might be trusted to as a sufficient defence.
But by sea a source of defence, suited to the nature of
that element, would be necessary: and, for this defence,
not only the navy of Washingtonia on the spot, but
the mere name of it would be sufficient. But Under
the assurance that to making war upon Junctiania
they would be making war upon Washingtonia, of no such
war does there seem any the smallest danger, of their making at the
hands of any other states. To destroy the communication would be to put
an end to it,their their own use of it: to injure it would be to
injure themselves, were it in any other view than the
putting themselves in possession of it. By putting themselves
in possession of it, they could do themselves no service,
any further than they could keep it. Keep it they might,
if a navy alone would suffice to keep it. But this it they could
not do: no such thing could <hi rend="superscript">any one of them they do; without an army likewise: - an army and
that sufficient to maintain itself against the three powers
perpetually confederated in the the defences of the object of a conquest so obviously untenable.
[18. Anglo-American

Identifier: | JB/106/292/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1822-06-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	junctiana proposal
Folio number	292	Info in main headings field	junctiana proposal
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / d28 / e7
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34880
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