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[Copyist's hand]
1818. July 31-
Parl Ref Bill
Reasons
II. Electors who
Reading
Poor Education
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But suppose her really in danger - was it for you to turn your back upon her? You one of the most exalted and favored of the Sons? Ah rechreant[?] knight! Was not this - ask Lord Castlereagh else turning your back upon yourself? Whom can the self-created Goddess, whom to speak lightly of is blasphemy whom can she depend upon for a champion if not upon Lord Grenville: What could you have been at a loss for weapons? does not vice become virtue, absurdity reason, when employed in her defence?-
Any inexpedient and misplaced scruples, is it possible they should ever disturb the mind of that Statesman whose first Act of power was to constitute himself sole check upon himself, to keep /heap/ Sinecure upon overpaid place and who lest he should cease to see himself in the Treasury saw a Hanover in Hampshire? Yes, Hanover in Hampshire: even as his less enabled and by nobility degraded kinsman saw America in Germany, when it was in Germany that he was bid to conquer it.
But to return. Such are the objects such the fruits of Establishments. Establishment upon Establishment you may have: Establishment upon Establishment, and yet no reading, though they should all promise it. Make reading as here proposed the necessary Road to suffrage, you get reading, and you get it without Establishment.
Look even to the so long self stiled and at last /length/ Charter Stiled National Institution /Society/: if it has produced so much /some/ reading for some reading, how ill applied soever, it has produced, it is because it has as yet had so little in it of Establishment.
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Title: [[Copyist's hand] 1818 July 31 st]Description: [Copyist's hand] 1818 July 31 st + '.2 Parl. Reform Bill Reasons Note II. Electors who Universality Reading. Poor Education 1 15 15 Behold what a distribution of Bibles! Think at what an expence not only of money but of time. And this expence is it not well bestowed? Yes: where the Bibles find eyes prepared for /capable of/ reading them. But of what avail can even Bibles be were these mind-creating eyes are wanting.- Education of the Poor - already under this name is this an object with Government: with bad effects if with any is certain: for under every Government but that of a Representative Democracy and above all, in this Government, every thing that calls itself Establishment has in it what is bad. Whether with good effects such as to overbalance the bad effects remains to be see: the more thoroughly a man is acquainted with the texture of the Government, the less sanguine will be his expectations of any such preponderance. What in consequence of these views we are sure of, if of any thing, is Establishment upon Establishment. But establishment upon Establishment is {corruption upon corruption, and} waste upon corruption /waste/ and corruption upon corruption. Let any man, who is not a corruptionist in possession, prepare a wholesome remedy, the corruptionist in possession pounces on it with his baleful talons and converts it into poison.- Copying the example set them from above, {the} Trustees of Charities /Charitable foundations/ all over the Kingdom have {learnt to have} succeeded in converting these public funds to private use: such will everywhere be the universal tendency so long as man is man. After prodigious reluctance an Establishment is framed /formed/ under the notion of correcting this abuse. The Establishment is formed: and what will be the consequence? The hands by which it was formed suffice to shew.-
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Title: [[copyist’s hand] nd [wm 1818]]Description: [copyist’s hand] nd [wm 1818] To Erskine 5. In this same order, I now have to submitt to your Lordships these same alledged Whig Merits with a few remarks: 1. Liberticide wars opposed. Execrable indeed these same wars – But, bad is good, in so far as by comparison any war can be stiled good, whatever be the opposition, war will be seen to be opposed by it. Be it ever so necessary, War abroad will always be not only a bad thing, but the worst of all bad things, except despotism at home. But no degree of readiness to oppose unnecessary war can exceed their readiness to make it. Under the notion of serving the Country where he was born, never was George the 2 d so eager to sacrifice to his ambition the welfare of that native Country of his which gave him a ducal, together with that of the Country which gave him a royal throne, as Charles Fox and Lord Grenville were to please George the 3 d who had never been there. “Witness Hanover and Hampshire”. The Eloquence of Charles Fox had provided him with a short word, with which he declared himself ready to justify any war, for any thing or for nothing, at any time. Witness Hanover: Witness, Glory: or, if neither be sufficient, | | both together. | | in, Johnson’s Every Man in his humour, was the prototype of Charles Fox. This, My Lord, was eloquence. – Ah was eloquence! Human comforts – human afflictions! – dull elements of calculation! how are ye looked down upon by eloquence!
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Title: [Jan y. 1810 Parl y. Reform]Description: Jan y. 1810 Parl y. Reform Ch.17 '.5. Variance Cause. 51 11 Progressive x numeral ten With the quantity they have at their own disposal, in these their own patent forms, give them but time, and all the liberty of the country and as a fruit or corollary of it a consuebanum[?] quid all the property will find its way into their hands. Pursuing the moral order of gratitude in preference to the order of natural /physical/ propagation, places and taxes, taxes and places generate each other. Taxes beget of necessity more places; more places beget of facility more taxes, and thus they go on taxes and places, places and taxes, and so they go on not as in the book of Genius[?] in fluxical[?] /progressive/ order, but as in the book of gratitude in recurrent {curve} in circular or elliptical order, begetting one another, to the end of the Chapter. As for necessity of taxes, it is a sort of thing there can be any want of, so long as a pretence for war is made out of any thing you can name: while you have your 1. America in Germany - conquering wars. 2. America in America conquering wars 3. Colony enslaving Wars 4 Nabob-hunting wars 5 Social order and holy-religion preserving wars 6 Indemnity and Security wars 7 Malta and marshes[?] empire wars 8 Droits[?] of Admiralty collecting wars 9. Hanover and Hampshire wars 10 Prisoner Kings empire guaranteeing wars 11 Diplomatic-bully supporting wars 12 Honour and Glory gathering wars and so on without end [Alternative list from marginal summary:] 1. America in Germany conquering 2. - in America conquer 3. Colony enslaving 4. Nabob-hunting 5 [...?] and ballance of power 6. Social order and holy-religion preserving 7. Indemnity and security conquering. 8. Malta and marshes[?] empire preserving 9. Hanover and Hampshire 10. Droits[?] of Admiralty 10 Prisoner King & empire guaranteeing 12 Diplomatic bully supporting 13 Honour and Glory.
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