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29 Dec r. 1809 Parl y. Reform
29 Dec r. 1809

Parl y. Reform

Necessity

Ch. 17.

4

 Add here the newly-elected and note the several classes as indicated under Ch. < > Necessity. Wild Weather cocks?

No sooner are they seated, than the whole train of corruptly dependent Members, who before without constituting a part of the administration (for these by the supposition are gone out) were in use to vote with administration, cross over to the other side. In the situation /condition/ of those in respect of /as between/ dependence and independence no alteration is produced: dependent they were before, dependent they are still.

These leading Members are all of them already provided with seats in the House and votes attached to those seats. These votes being before engaged, all of them to opposition that is to the administration in expectancy, are now so many votes engaged to administration, that is to the administration in possession.
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    Opposition coming in succeeds to the corrupt influence, and takes possession of the corruptly dependent and obsequious

    They succeed to the faculty of committing all the profitable abuses all the King has a prospect of making a better bargain with themselves /their opponents/ Therefore they have sufficiently [...?] they may have committed a hundred such abuses.

    On an occasion of this sort if the opposition can be disunited - if a part deemed sufficient in number and reputation can be gained /bought off/ and induced to come into office without the rest, so much the better.

    This accordingly is what sometimes in other reigns, but constantly in this has accordingly been endeavoured. In some instances it has succeeded: but in others it has failed

    In the cases in which it has failed, all the men of whom the body called Opposition has consisted /leaders among its Members/ have /in a body,/ through necessity been brought in in a body.

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    A case /An example/ /An /Two/ incident/ nearer to our own times, and at the same time less dependent on any such evidence which /the correctness of which/ is of a nature to be questionable seems to be offered by the famous /celebrated/ dictum in which Hanover and Hampshire are placed upon the same line: < > and by those transactions relative to what is called Catholic emancipation which immediately preceded the dismission of the administration /headed by/ of which Lord Grenville was at the head.
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    When Opposition is thus seated in the seat of dependant power, then it is that the seemely[?] uncorruption puts on visible and undisguised corruption: then it is that the dependence on the party is changed into dependence on the King.

    The leaders in a certain number, about a dozen one or two more or less take their places /seats/ in the Cabinet. Others taking subordinate places are for their continuance in those places dependent on those who are in the Cabinet: those in the Cabinet being under the King in a state either of absolute dependence on some one among them, most commonly the First Lord of the Treasury, or in a state nearer to equality of power among themselves as characters and circumstances have happened to determine.