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19 June 1811
Abdication
Disfranchisements
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What I do not take upon me to say is - that on this occasion for the conversion of corruption into incorruption, all was done that might and ought to have been done:
But what I do take upon me to say is - that so far as it went it affirmed the justice and in any point of view the propriety of applying to the disorder in question a remedy the burthen of which should fall /press/ upon shoulders /other shoulders/ other than these, to whom any share in the production in the disorder, any delinquency in any shape could be imputed.
On the ground of a single act of corruption, to the prejudice of a multitude of persons to whom no act of delinquency in any shape could be imputed persons to many of whom it may have happened to resist /oppose/ on that occasion an effectual resistance to the temptation under the force of which the probity of so many others sunk, the election franchise was with respect to two /four/ seats out of the 558 (the then number), the election franchise was for the purpose of thenceforward giving additional freedom /freedom/ to the made Election in respect of these seats thrown open to other persons in an encreased number. Here then in the ground of an act of delinquency or[?] an act of corruption committed on one single occasion by one part of the whole number of the Electors, they together with a number of others not partakers in this or any other act of delinquency, are, no matter in what account particular /individual/ punishment, or general reform.
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Title: [19 June 1811 Abdication disfranchisement]Description: 19 June 1811 Abdication disfranchisement 4 44 18 What follows? Answer /Why/, that, if for a single /disorder manifested no otherwise than by a single/ act of delinquence, and for no other purpose than that of giving encreased freedom to the mode of elections, and admitting a greater number of persons to a /the/ share in the parliamentary election franchise, this a remedy of this sort, including the hardship and suffering that are inseparable from it may not only be applied without injustice, but, for the common benefit of the people, was properly and laudable imposed /applied/, much more may this same remedy, with its hardship, be it what it may, be imposed /applied/ for as a cure for a habit, productive of constantly repeated acts of corruption, constituting, an unbroken course or chain of acts of corruption committed - not by influence not merely in that situation the prize[?] of which consists in nothing more than the faculty of contributing to the determination of those by whom the efficient power of the state shall be exercised, but by men in the situation in which that same efficient power is exercised or committed by them, and that in numbers generally sufficient to turn the scale and command the act of the whole body in manner as abovementioned.
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Title: [19 June 1811 Abdication Disfranchisements]Description: 19 June 1811 Abdication Disfranchisements 2 42 16 Oh but, I hear Honourable Gentlemen saying /objecting/ - it was /what on this occasion was done, it was/ not for punishment: it was only for remedy that it was done. Be it so: accordingly then it is not for punishment - it is only for remedy that I venture to propose it to the peoples of the United Kingdom to join in copying /emulating/, though upon a more extensive scale, and with /to/ semblant[?] better effect, the pattern set by their /these/ representatives - representatives in name - their Agents, and upon occasion even their tenable servants - in reality and effect as they have so long felt, and we may see perhaps ere long somewhat more clearly than at present, their masters - their arbitrary and irresponsible masters. Taken from the comparatively few the franchise was in these instances given to the comparatively many, the few in whom no act /offence/ of transgression had been found were included? Of the franchise they before possessed the force and virtue was diminished - diminished by the difference between the number with which they had been or use to share it before the application of the remedy, and the number with which they were reduced to share it after and in consequence of the remedy.
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Title: [19 June 1811 F {5[?]} Abdication]Description: 19 June 1811 F {5[?]} Abdication Disfranchisement 1 41 15 Be this /that/ as it may - and for argument sake even admitting that in /from/ any other mouth /lips/ a judgment /an opinion/ by which the supposed punishment in question should be pronounced neither unjust nor over severe might itself be taxed with injustice, on the part of /by/ the Honourable House punishment applied for this ground and in this shape to a corporate body could not consistently be marked with any such mark of disapprobation. By two several acts of the Honourable House acts in which in both instances the judgment of the Honourable House was confirmed by that of the remainder /other parts/ of the legislative body, this mode of treatment this mode of punishment, and on the score of delinquency in this very shape in a shape nearer than any other can be to their very shape was administered and approved. In two /several/ instances - and this not in any less auspicious times but in this very most auspicious innovation-looking reign was that same measure meted out meted[?] out not only with the assent but at the instance of this same Honourable House. In the instance of two different Boroughs, on the occasion of an Election of Members /deputies/ to serve in parliament on the part of certain of the Electors acts of bribery acts of bribe-taking were by legal proof established /ascertained to have been committed/ on the part of certain of the Electors. These Electors proved guilty, and what was due[?] consequence? Those individuals and those alone deprived /divested/ of the corporate franchise by one single act thus abused? No: not those alone: but along with those who had sunk under the temptation a number of others who had resisted it. by whom it had been resisted.
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