JB/072/054/003

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Offences against the National Interest in general
But all states are more or less in a state of real jealousy. If a
foreign government give you a pension, it certainly is not without
case. 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 know what the services are,
cannot be understood. It is proper therefore that the pensioner should
and registered; as also
be known; ^ and the assigned cause for which he receives this pension;
and that the more publickly the better; and the 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
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 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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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	054	Info in main headings field	offences against the national interest in general
Image	003	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23671
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