JB/109/002/003

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Those who cry
out against it war
most(opposition
papers) are not
best pleased with
it

A war-loving
Master - worse
than an assassin.
A warlike
in a nation worse
than a habit of
assassination.
of assassination
for revenge. Punishment
for theft
robbery &c is
necessary to the
existence of society
Punishment for murder
for revenge not
so. Ex.g. frequency
is assassination in
Chapter where paper
taken increases
wonderfully.

—

Gibraltar

Levant Trade necessary

Kept up as necessary
to the
Levant trade
while a the expence of Lazaretto
which really is
necessary is refused.

—

National one: perhaps
it is: perhaps
the thing happened
once: and the single
accident made the
story. That the English
madness is a national
one, as true beyond
dispute

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Beginning

Observation Its
true that what
keeps mathemal
proper as from being
controverted is not
their certainty, but
their disconnection
with the passions
Proposition still
more evident than
mathematical
have been even
rendered penal
in the highest
degree

Nothing else
could have kept
men from affecting
to the proposition
that promoting
an unjust war
is many
of times worse
than murder. &
as much were, as
the number of persons
slain in it as greater
than one.

—

Notions of National
honour
& consideration &c
taken from intercourse
between man
& man — Stand
upon upon much
weaker ground in
the intercourse between
nation &
nation — Man
necessary to man
not so — nation to
nation

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Causes of error

1. Predeliction
for notions of the
patients

2. Taking up
the language
and the notions
established in modern
times

Notice

Terms of France
took their rise
in time when there
was more justice
in them

The superiority
of Britain was
not then ascertained.

This superiority
not temporary nor
accidental, but
permanent and
increasing, depending
on the superiority
of capital

Militia the
great dependence
of France, a
much super dependence
to G.
Britain on account
of its insular
situation

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Causes of War

1. State them systematically
—

2. then historically

3. distinguish the real
from the ostensible?

The cause of the
part the French
took in the American
War was
Virginias politico-
economical ignorance
in supposing
the quantity
of wealth in France
would be increased
by the French being
at liberty to trade with
the United States.

4. From what
period begin?

Recommendation
to the Minister &
consider what the
fame of the war
would be worth to
time in hard money
and rather murder his
Mother his Brothers
& his Brothers children
& yet and Act of Parliament
for his indemnity.

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Means for preserving
peace

1. Arcopagus or European
Dict.

2. Pacific or Philharmonic
society

3. Pacific Newspapers
to be maintained.

4. Cabinet secrecy
to be combated.

5. Charing the House
of Contractors and others
interested in war

6. Diminishing the
value of the patronage
created by war.

7. Homily in favour
of peace (grounded in
these principally) to
be read periodically
in Churches.

Arcopagus — its Use

Saving armaments
upon the point of
honour

Judgement (with
reasons) to be circulated
throu in the
dominion of each
state (in the Court
Gazette)

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Identifier: | JB/109/002/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings
Folio number	002	Info in main headings field	Pacific & Emancip.
Image	003	Titles	War / Gibraltar / Beginning / Causes of War
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