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9 Jan y 1810 Parl y. Reform
9 Jan y 1810

Parl y. Reform

Ch.17.

'.4. Disreputableness

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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.

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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.

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