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6 30
C
State Libels. Indirect
Misrule
From p. 5. par. 1.
A Minister, be his
conduct ever so meritorious
ha no reason
to think hemself
ill used injured by
any contrivance for
opening a door to
such complaints
To place an unlimited confidence in Ministers
is to place unlimited confidence in the hands
of those who are most likely to be undeserving it abuse it :
as being tempted by having in themselves greater interests to
tempt them to swerve from the line of rectitude
than any other sort of people have, and better
pretences on the plea of necessity for swerving
from it, on accountin the way of defense against by reason of of the disintegrity of those many
whom they have to must deeal with. It is a rule
of prudence in a private man, never without
some very particular reason without some very
particular benefit to be attained by it, by
himself or at least by some other, to put it in
the power of any one to do him a prejudice:
much less of one who is known may find
his interest in so doing. If this be prudence ais rule is fit to
be observedby necessary caution in a private man much more is it,
[and that for the reasons that have been given,] in a sovereign.
As to the a Ministers themselves himself, the more
upright they are he is, they less they he stands in need of
such a confidence: and the less upright he is, the
more reason there certainly is why he should not
have it: and it may be said affirmed without a paradox,
that
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