date

30 Dec r 1809 Parl y Ref m
30 Dec r 1809

Parl y Ref m

'.9.

Ch. Parl Corrupted[?] I Members? II Electors?

'.1.

2

1 o

On this occasion, the immediate subject of consideration /the enquiry/ is the manner in which the Member in question comes in possession of his seat: not the course of his conduct not the line of conduct which while he continues in it he may be expected to pursue.

But on a preceding occasion, the mode of a mans coming into /by/ his seat was a circumstance that could not but be brought to view: for the direct subject of the consideration enquiry being what in the situation in question the line of conduct pursued by him was /is/ likely to be, the mode of his coming into that situation was necessarily brought to view, viz. in the character of a circumstance by which is conduct in it could not but be more or less influenced, and under some circumstances absolutely and continually determined.

A considerable circumstance that contributed to render it requisite and necessary to enter, even under this present general head thus far into the consideration of the mode of a man's coming by /entrance into/ his seat, is that as yet for this purpose the situation of the Parliamentary Elector by whose suffrage the person in question is placed in such his seat, does not as yet come upon the carpet. It is indeed by an influence of some sort or other exercised by the patron of the seat in the Electors by whose suffrage the seat is filled, that the placing /seating/ of the incumbent in that seat is accomplished such then is the case: but in what particular mode or modes this influence is capable of being productive of such its effect is a question that will still remove[?] for our second general head, viz. the influence of the system of corruption and corrupt dependence of the situati n of parliamentary Electors.
Similar Items
  • Title: [30 Dec r 1809 Parl y. Reform]
    Description: 30 Dec r 1809

    Parl y. Reform

    Ch.6 Parl. Corruption I. Members

    '. Corruptor Course[?]

    Corruption continued

    '.5. 2. Corruptor's mind[?]

    21

    2

    The purposes /occasions/ on which the influence of a Minister is exerted /exercised/ on a Member are reductive to two: that on which his possession of his seat , and that in which his conduct when in his seat is in question.

    In so far as his possession of his seat is in question the influence /effect/ of the transaction on the mind of the Minister /in question/ belongs not to the present purpose: it will come under consideration, further on, viz. when the effect of corruption and corrupt dependence on the situation of a parliamentary Elector comes to be considered.

    On the present occasion the person considered as exposed to corruption, and liable thereby to be brought into a situation of habitual and corrupt dependence is considered as already in possession of his seat.

    The person by whose influence he is placed and kept in this dependent state is the Minister or a Minister: and the considerations by which he is placed or kept in this state are the hope of some benefit to his receipt of which the concurrence /an act/ of the Minister is regarded as necessary, or the fear of the loss /losing/ of some benefit which the Minister is considered as having it in his power to deprive him of /revoke/: for instance a lucrative office held by him under the crown /an administration already in his hands/.
  • Title: [14 Octob r 1810 Parl Ref. Plan Electors]
    Description: 14 Octob r 1810

    Parl Ref. Plan Electors

    §.4

    Ch.10 Art.10 Qualific

    §.4

    Use of election suffrage. 1. having an interest regarded by Member as his public 1

    parliamentary conduct. 2. d o in private transactions, and being

    generally treated with respect: where suffrage ends contempt begins

    If of the votes of the lower classes several told but as one,

    the motive for respect /pretence[?]/ would be preserved.
  • Title: [20 Jan y 1810 Parl y. Reform]
    Description: 20 Jan y 1810

    Parl y. Reform

    Ch.2.

    '.1.

    2

    2

    and that which gives it /the circumstance from which it receives /derives// its title to all these epithets, is - that, {to the extent of its operation,} for the guidance of the conduct of the public functionary and trustee in question, viz. the Member of Parliament or the parliamentary Elector, it substitutes to that will which by the supposition is the proper one, another which by the supposition, the /consistently with the universally/ acknowledged nature and design of the constitution, can not be deemed a proper one.

    A sort of the influence to which no impropriety ever has been, or with any colour of reason ever can be or is ever likely to be ascribed, is the influence of understanding on or over understanding.

    To fulfill the obligation which attaches upon the functionary in question in his quality of trustee /in respect of this his trust/ The line of conduct which on the sort of occasion in question he pursues must, it has already been observed, be a course or line of conduct of which, in the character in question (viz. as that which promises to be in the highest degree subservient to the interest of his principals) a view has been taken by his own understanding, and of which according to the judgment formed of it by his understanding, promises to be productive of that effect.