21 Sep 1809

K[?] 17 Sep. 1809

Parl y Ref m B. 1. Necessity.

Ch. 20 Elogiums mischievous

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30 Sep. 1809. Ordo propositus.

§.1. Interest how much dexter, how much sinister as to reputation

§.2. Mischief of the effectual pursuit of his sinister interest in this article.

§.3/4/. Modes by which his sinister inter t in this is pursuable

§.4/3/. Modes by which his dexetr interest in this is pursuable

§.5. Mischief of effectual pursuit of his sinister interest how avoible[?] – not by

punishm t, but by parl y reform.

False tokens of fitness, as[?]

1. Youth and old age

2 Nativity

3. Large family – Wife’s avarice

4. Conjugal fidelity. To know[?] so forbidding?

5 Solanne[?] & Cobbet convicted as for a libel for imputing […?] character to

Hardwick in token of public unfitness.

6. Gossipping & Gratification to preach

7 Blindness[?]

Tokens of unfitness.

1. Misrule – so many instances – nothing done since King’s commission Proof Catholic

business

2. Slave Trade abolition – his opposition

3. Sacrificing Britain & Hanover to himself

4. Propensity to unjust war against Russia thro’ Sweden.

5 Liberty of the people Wilkes &c

6. Freedom of H. of Commons Middlesex election.

7. Fondness for arbitrary power. British America: Spanish America.

8. Hardness of character Keeping people standing &c.

9. Imbecillity – What? what? what?

10. Hatred of Talents. Paley – A. Smith – Archb p. Moore.

11. Exempting himself from War Taxes.

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Inspectors make […?] in[?] dupes. It is to these alone[?] I address myself with any

prospect of success –

Henceforward any size[?] of […?] should bespeak a man an Ephraim[?] Justius[?].

 In regard to each pretence of private goodness, ask is this a reason why he should

govern?
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