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Experience has since the date of that publication enabled the argument to go still further. In the character of Representatives under the proposed plan think of the number that will be necessary to be got together and all along kept up for the production of mischief in any of the shapes in which you apprehend it: out of 668, 335. Now then judging from experience of this number 335 can any reasonable ground be found for the supposition that so much as a single man would be chosen out of any such class or description of men as in your eyes has been an object of terror, or a source of uneasiness. Look to the author of the Political Register and so many other forcibly written and widely disseminated tracts: look once more to the Spa-fields Orator. To both these, to each in his several walk[?] of eloquence you ascribe[?], in addition to the strongest desire imaginable a capacity for producing political mischief: a capacity which in the Instance of the Writer at least you yourselves can scarcely say has ever yet been equalled or can reasonably be expected to be ever exceeded. Well, on the occasion of the late Election these men looked round them every where and no where did they either of them find any the smallest chance of acceptance. As to the Writer he was absent. But the Orator, he was present: present, and with all his might blowing the Coals in what in your view of it, is the very focus of sedition.
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Title: [[Copyist's hand] 1818 July 23]Description: [Copyist's hand] 1818 July 23 Parl Ref Bill Reasons II. Electors who? Universality 8 5 24 Number of votes - for this Orator -- : for the knighted Wig Lawyer -- with a mixture of Tories, Whigs, and peoples men for his support -- : for the opulent Landholding Baronet < >. Think what violence of invective: think what audacity: think what Intrepidity proof for 12 whole days together even to the approach of Cowardice. Of all the several qualities best adapted to the production of political mischief in the soil of the lower orders, can any more consummate union be at any time reasonably be expected to be found? Ayes but then there were so many objections say you, in both instances so many objections. - Well but in the instance of M r Wooler there were no such objections: yet no where had M r Wooler any chance. Had he been the Kings Printer, yes: tho' he had been ever so stupid being in that case of course corrupt, he would have had not a chance only but a certainty.
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Title: [[Copyist's hand] 1818 July 23]Description: [Copyist's hand] 1818 July 23 Parl Ref Bill Reasons II. Electors who Universality 6 3 22 In the Introduction to the Plan of Parliamentary Reform a sort of eventual prediction was hazarded that in the case of radical reform, and that carried even to the length of universal suffrage, the class of men, out of which Representatives will be chosen will not be any class which to the antireformists need be or even actually is, as such, an object of apprehension. In support of this prediction the Authority there appealed to, was that of experience: uniform and notorious experience. Men already distinguished by wealth, by power by rank by reputation: such are the men out of whom (it it there said) the choice has ever hitherto been made: such therefore are the men out of whom it would /will/ continue to be made. In addition to this intimation was at the same time given of a class of men in whom howsoever the objects of esteem in other respects those brilliant endowments are not any of them to be found. For illustration an Instance was given of a nomination which being that of a Man belonging to the medical profession was on that account even by those to whom he was on other accounts an object of love and respect, put aside as ridiculous.
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Title: [[Copyist's hand] 1818 July 23]Description: [Copyist's hand] 1818 July 23 Parl Ref Bill Reasons II. Electors Who Universality 5 2 21 But now then at any rate comes the question who - what sort of men these Representatives are to be. That they should have been chosen with a view to any such plan as that of possible equalization as above has not been found in any degree probable. but if not for the sake of mischief in that shape, in what other shape it is, that under the system of Universal Suffrage it should be the wish of the people or any thing approaching to the Majority of the people to entertain any such desire as that of seeing mischief produced seems not very easy to imagine. Not having then, any determinate and assignable desire to see mischief produced - produced by the Instrumentality of their Representatives what are the qualities which in this new state of things the people may with most reason be expected to wish to find in the breasts of these same Representatives? Answer - Those qualities by the manifestation of which taken altogether the aggregate interest of these same Constituents affords the fairest promise of being advanced. But of these qualities, a description sufficiently clear, correct, and compleat with a view to the present purpose has it is hoped been already given: there, the three[?] several qualities constituted of appropriate aptitude.
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