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9[?] Jan y 1810 Parl y Reform
9[?] Jan y 1810

Parl y Reform

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Ch.17

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4. If for that species of political /parliamentary/ corruption which consists in a state of dependence on the King or a Minister no place can be found in the black book of our Right Honourable censor, as little can any place be found for that comparatively innocuous[?] species of parliamentary corruption which consists in the dependence on the will of a private individual: of /for/ /in/ dependence a title to the appellation of /ground for any such reprobative appellation as that of/ corruption would scarcely be to be found but for its tendency to turn into that beyond comparison most /more/ morbid and pernicious species of corruption above /which has just been/ mentioned.

 Add And here the virtuous and generous motives have their direct and indisputable application.
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    Of our five species of parliamentary corruption there remains but one more, and that is, delivery of a vote for a corrupt consideration, in which though corrupt be composed of a benefit to be received by the Member in some shape or other for himself or some other person or persons connected with him by some such "virtuous" tie as that of "friendship or affection" is not in such sort determinate and liquidated and determinate, as to present to view any of that dry and sordid matter towards which the aversion of our Right Honourable Censor is so unconquerable, nor therefore to come in one short word under the denomination of a bribe. Of the genus parliamentary corruption or [...?] the essential character /characteristic/ is the dry and sordid matter so often spoken of, and in the one species of parliamentary corruption none of this dry and sordid matter being according to the description here given of it to be found the consequence is that in the thought the[?] system of the /our/ Right Honourable Censor /Naturalist/, no the genus parliamentary corruption nor consequently in his black book, alias otherwise present his seat of disreputableness no place for it is to be found.
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    As to the remaining one of our /the/ species of parliamentary corruption which the station of Electors furnishes, that species which to the eye of a plain man would not /might scarce/ be distinguishable from the former, in the scientific eyes of our Right Honorable Commissioner it is /stands/ so clearly distinguished that in his whole system one of them is retained /occupies an indisputable place/, the other is indisputably /decidedly/ thrown out. No dry and sordid matter to be seen or heard /perceptible/ striving in it, therefore no place for it in the black book, no place for it in the scale of disreputableness.

    On the contrary for this item, in the system of our Right Honorable Commissioner[?] a place must somewhere be found for it in some book or scale of honour.

    For in this [...?] we see at one time the result of the influence of the "possessions of property", those possessions which not only may and must but ought to have in the election of members to serve in this House a predominating influence.

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    How wide the difference is between the two scales, viz. that of mischievousness according to my humble conception of it and that of disreputableness will framed upon the principle laid down or pursued by the Right Honorable Gentleman now appear /appear already/ not only from the difference in the places occupied in the two scales by the same cases {of corruption} but even from the difference in respect of the number of the degrees.

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    First as to the case which on the scale of mischievousness constituted the highest degree, viz. the case of habitual Court dependence alias Ministerial dependence alias diet' which is as much as to say corrupt dependence. For this case in the black book of our Right Honourable censor morum I can not after the most careful scrutiny find any thing like a place any where.

    His scale of honour or say reputableness supposing him to have constructed any such scale, is the sort of scale in which, as far as the evidence goes indications afforded by this document extend, the place for this case would /might rather/ be to be looked for, "In the election of Members to serve in this House" a proposition plainly /indisputably/ implied in this document /instruction/ if not directly asserted /declared/ is that "the virtuous and generous motives of friendship and affection" ought to have in conjunction with "the possessions of property" ... "a predominating influence.