JB_129_396V.xml

Title: [[129b-396v] 22 Octob. 1810]

Description: [129b-396v]

22 Octob. 1810

Parl. Ref. Plan

Ch. 2. Catechism

§ 14 Election inconveniences

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{ ☞ N.B. This order is here[?] changed

Question or 1. What are the means that promise to be most conducive to the prevention of the inconveniences attendant on Elections.

Answer. They are these following, viz.

1. Causing the title /right/ of each Elector to stand on so clear a footing, that, unless a forgery be suspected, it can not be open to dispute.

2. Delivering his vote /Causing his vote to be delivered/ in such a manner, as, not requiring him to stir from his own home, shall /strikes[?]/ of all expence on the score of conveyance.

3. Prohibiting Candidates from visiting Electors at their own homes or elsewhere for the purpose of canvassing, i.e. asking for their votes

Question | | or 2. By what means can the title /right/ of each Elector be put on any such clear footing?

Answer. By ordaining that the cause of title shall be /consist of/ payment made for the last half year of a sum of money not less than so much, to a certain tax or set of taxes – suppose the assessed taxes: and that the evidence of such title shall consist in a duplicate receipt signed by the Collector; on which duplicate shall be written according to a form already printed upon the paper, called a Voting paper, the name of the Candidate for /in favour of/ whom the Elector intends thereby to give his vote: whereupon the Voting paper, being filled up according to a set of directions, printed thereon in forme[?] of a border or margin and being directed to the Returning Officer for the Electoral District, shall be transmitted to him by the post.}

JB_126_380.xml

Title: [14 Octob r 1810 Parl. Reform {Plan]

Description: 14 Octob r 1810

Parl. Reform {Plan or} Influence

Ch.

'. Pocket Counties

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1. Mischief the same as Borough-holding

2. Instrument - expence of elections

3. Remedy, putting and end to that expence

'. Pocket Counties How the peace of a County is preserved.

'. Peace of a County - what is meant by it - how to preserve it /its meaning - how preserved/

Two persons, of opposite parties, whether originally so, or constituting themselves to for the purpose, join their interests and exertions for the purpose of seating themselves and one another in the two seats which every English County affords.

For effecting /working/ this arrangement what is the instrument? money. This and this alone is the instrument trusted to and upon occasion employed.

Should any third person propose to be a Candidate whether that /such/ third person be of neither party or of either party, these two rivals by nature /original habit/, partners by compact join against him: if he be of either party, then the contracting candidate who is of that party, desists and gives up his party for the purpose of promoting in this mode his own personal and private interest.

JB_160_364.xml

Title: [[clx. 364] 1822 July 8 Constitut]

Description: [clx. 364]

1822 July 8

Constitut. Code

[...?] for the sake of the references.

Securities

Public Opinion Tribunal

Aristocratical Section notions

Aristocratical Section of the Public Opinion Tribunal Its Notions (a)

1 All sincerity and regard to veracity is treated as ridiculous

2 All regard to Frugality in the expenditure of public money treated as ridiculous Per Under Secretary Wilmot idea of lessening expence of Official Salaries by competition scouted under the name of Dutch Auction. Morn Chron 8 July 1822

3. The sufferings of the lower orders regarded as the subjects and [...?] of contempt "Revered and raptured Ogden" Canning Morn. Chron. 16 July 1822. [...?] by [...? ...?]

4. Pastimes on a Sunday irreprehensible on the part of the rich /higher orders/: reprehensible on the part of the lower orders. Vice-Society etc. v. Bamber, acquittal. Charles Philips for defce. June 1822

7. Gaming irreprehensible on the part of the higher orders: reprehensible on the part of the lower orders only

8. Gaming debts preferred to debts to Tradesmen.

9. Facility of Swindling by obtaining credit and raising sums on the appearance of wealth in a shape protected against Creditors not maintained against all attempts to abolish it

10. Swindling by obtaining and converting to a mans own use articles of property on the pretence of employing it in government service

11. All idea of reform treated as ridiculous

12. The idea that the happiness of the many ought not to be sacrificed to the happiness of the few treated as ridiculous: contempt is due to every man who entertains it or professes to entertain it.

Aristocratical Section of the Public Opinion Tribunal. Its Notions continued

13. The quantity of esteem and respect a man is justly entitled to is as the elevation of the place he occupies in the conjunct scales of opulence political power and factitious dignity

14. Property is either itself merit, or the foundation of merit, or if not when it is unaccompanied by merit gives a man a more indisputable title to regard to respect and favor than can be given to him by merit without property

15. Property i.e. the matter of wealth in large masses is the only substantial and justifiable foundation for power, insomuch that he who has most property ought for that reason to have most power - and in a word the quantity of power a man possesses ought to be in exact proportion to the quantity of property he possesses

16. That in like manner as to factitious honor the quantity a man possesses ought to be as the quantity of property and power taken together which he possesses

17 That accordingly and for example in England, property to a certain amount gives him a just claim to a [...?]: and this whatsoever may have been his endeavour on the ground of morality and politics

Note (a)

(a) These notions will be conformable to those points by which things as they are in the English Government are /stand/ distinguished from Things as they ought to be. Matter for this head may therefore be sought for in matter under that head, morals excepted.

[...? ...? ...?] New Times and John Bull