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1818 Sept. 9. Things as they are
1818 Sept. 9.

Things as they are

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5 That in this state of things the interest of the Monarch is in opposition /opposite/ to the interest of those so called Borough mongers: and their aggregate interest opposite to his.

6. That moreover as to what regards the people at large, the interest of the Monarch if not identical with /agreeing /in agreement/ with/ that of the people in all its points, is so at any rate in this point viz in being adverse to that of the so-called Borough-mongers: for that so it is that by the Boroughmongers dominion is exercised not only over the people, but over him, and through /th/ him over the people and that it is by the /a/ dominion that /which/ they exercise over him that they exercise the dominion which they exercise over the people

7. That accordingly in the actual state of things it is the interest of the Monarch that to the dominion of the so called Borough mongers there should be an end: in so much that /for that/ if this same dominion were at an end, power possessed and exercised by the Monarch would be greater than the power possessed and exercised by him at present.

8. That whereas by the proposed system of radical reform the power /dominion/ of these so-called Borough minders would be put to an end, so it is that under the proposed system of radical reform the effective power possessed and exercised by the Monarch would be greater than the power possessed and exercised by him at present.
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    Things as they are

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    Borough Mongers

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    What is true is – that to the Monarch it belongs to dissolve the Parliament and with it the House of Commons whenever he pleases: 2. that in the hands of the Monarch alone is the power of appointment with regard to all offices and of removal at pleasure in regard to the greatest part of the value[?] of whole mass, purse and pay taken together: 3. that in the hands of the Monarch alone is the whole of the military power, by sea and by land, over regulars and over non-regulars and that in no one of these powers are the so-called Borough mongers either collectively or individually considered partakers.

    On the other hand what is no less true is that of the persons appointed by these so called Borough Mongers /these Borough mongers and the persons appointed by them/ is composed a considerable majority of the Members of the House of Commons: true it is moreover /perhaps/ that by a dissolution of Parliament it would not at any time be in the power of the Monarch to destroy their effective power to reduce their habitual majority to a minority.

    But to the members of this set of Borough mongers the object of concupiscence, those objects by which alone /principally/ such their condition is rendered valuable to them are many by office and commission – power by peerage bishopricks and inferior office, and fictitious dignity in all its various shapes, and by any other hand than his /without his concurrence thought[?]/ not one of all these good things is there any one of them that could ever possess himself of.
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    In the general notion /conception/ thus commonly conveyed, the following are the particular notions /conceptions/ that seem to be included.

    1. That under the government as at present exercised /carried on/, the power shared among the set of men thus denominated is actually superior to that of the Monarch: and that in such sort and degree that in the exercise of the government /his powers/ the conduct of the Monarch is governed not by his own free will but by theirs: so that the superior power is theirs in effect, in him only in name, and that accordingly he is but an instrument in their hands

    2. That immediately or through the medium of the Monarch, this set of men hold in like subjection not only the House of Commons but the House of Lords.

    3. That they constitute a permanent body, of which the Members of which are at each point of time so many determinate known and assignable individuals; viz. the possessors of seats in the House of Commons: those persons included who by any means whatsoever have the command of these same seats have the faculty of determining the several individuals by whom those seats shall respectively be filled.

    4. That they /those individuals/ are to such a degree bound together by one interest common to them all, and that a particular interest adverse to the universal interest as on every /each/ occasion to act in concert, or if not in concert, with such /as perfect/ a degree of harmony and combination of exertions towards one determinate and common end, as could be effected by concert: in so much that in their case either concert either has place, or if it has not is unnecessary.

    5. That if not all of them without exception, at least to the amount of a preponderant number, they are in the habit of making these seats an object of sale: and that it is in this habit of sale that the evil principally consists.
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    True it is that ultimately by the refusal of money bills or by the tacking of other bills to money-bills and in the meantime by the outvoting of his Minister in the House, it would be in their power to occasion to him a good deal of trouble /annoyance/: on the other hand equally true it is that by no such annoyance could any one of them either ultimately come to exercise dominion over the Monarch or possess themselves of any one of those standing objects of their concupiscence. For by /in/ any attempt to exercise over him any such dominion instead of having the people on their side, they would beyond all possibility of doubt have the people against them. In favour of the Monarchy and the House of Lords together but more particularly in favour of the Monarchy are all the /people’s/ prejudices of the people: in favour of the so-called Boroughmongers, none. Having against them the Monarch and the people against them in this supposed enterprize they could have every body and every thing: the military power in all its branches it is at /under/ the command of the Monarch not under the command of these so-called Boroughmongers.