JB_129_295.xml

Title: [19 Jan y 1817 Necessity Cat]

Description: 19 Jan y 1817

Necessity Cat

II Application

§.4. Constitution present real state

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*6

Q. Be it so: First then as to the Electoral Districts.

A. 1. Pocket Boroughs or Proprietary Boroughs. Seats

2. Close Boroughs Seats

3. Open or disputable Boroughs Seats

4. County. Seats

To one or other of these will all the seats contained in the House, will if I

mistake not be found referable The ground of the distinction is the degree of

assurance of certainty or uncertainty /certainty of closeness or openness real or

apparent/ with which the /a man’s/ entrance into this species of office is attended.

1. The pocket or proprietary seat /Borough/ is as the name imports a seat so assured

as to be dependable on the same family upon the footing of a landed Estate: such

being the results the state of things out of which the assurance results does not

seem worth conceding for the present /with a view to an immediate/ purpose In this

case no room is afforded for bribery. Of The seat As well the advowson as the next

presentation may indeed be the object of sale as well as of gratuitous donation. But

in neither case do the Electors receive any money: by the proprietor of the Borough,

if by any person is the money received.

2. Close Borough Seats.

JB_128_037.xml

Title: [3 Feb. 1817 Plan Cat. Introd. Rudiments]

Description: 3 Feb. 1817

Plan Cat. Introd. Rudiments

§. Introd.

Members classed.

2

Sinister Sacrifice

{ 18 or 1

Effect – constant sacrifice of community aggregate interest to partial d o of Monarch and his instruments. }

19 or 2 Members classed

Classes of men provided

1 Men of all work

2 Idlers

3 Terrorists: many included in the Idlers –

20 or 3 Members classed.

1 Men of all work, placemen: in possession or expectancy:

sole use of their votes as contradistinguished from their seats engaging them to take a constant & leading part leading part in

the sacrifice –

{ 21 or 4 Terrorists

Terrorists who? Classes on whom the term is exercised.

I Electors – viz – Tenants and other dependants. Vote-compelling Terrorists

2. Competitors, or would-be d o.

Competition-repelling Terrorists

22 or 5 Terrorists

Instrument of terror.

1 On Electors, publicity of the suffrage a removal of

2 on Competitors, overbearing purse: }

{ 23 or 6 Terrorists

1 Country State.

Principal Terrorists Great Land holders – viz- Peers and richest Country Gentlemen

expence of journey and demurrage considered, nothing but terror /compulsion/ (add a

bribery) could suffice to send the votors to the distance they have to travel (50-

miles)

24 or 7 Terrorists

Here terror and bribery act, one, or both, in various proportions: terror as far as

it can be employed: in default of it, bribery –

25 or 8 Terrorists

1 County seats –

Persons operated upon by the terror are

I Country Gentlemen less opulent

2 d o. less abounding in ready money –

3 - or in appropriate ambition. }

26 or 9. Terrorists

Intellectual aptitude being rather inversely than directly as oppulence, natural

consequence general in aptitude in these seats

{ 27 or 10 Terrorists

Competitors excluded by Terrorists – all whose | | surplus of money is in their eyes

insufficient for a contest i.e the great bulk of those most highly endorsed with the

several elements of appropriate aptitude. }

{ 28 or 11 Terrorists

The Money holding Terrorists are less mischievous than the Land-holding d o. for }

1 They have more appropriate intellectual aptitude Ex-gr

1 Merchants

2 Manufacturers

3 Acting Managers of great Corporation

4 Men inured[?] to Government in British India

29 or 12 Terrorists

2 On Electors they operate less by terror – more by comparatively innoxious bribery –

{ 30 or 13 Property

So much for the legitimate influence of property: ie aristocratical – not better than

monarchical legitimacy }

31 or 14 Property

Under no one of the elements of aptitude is property

included: for no one of them does it exclude the demand –

Part I. The cause of the disorder stated and the cause of it stated

Part II. The sole possible remedy stated and explained in principle

Part III. The disorder and its causes explain in detail

JB_129_297.xml

Title: [23 Jan y 1817 Inserendum Plan]

Description: 23 Jan y 1817

Inserendum

Plan Cat

2 o

Introd

§.13. Members classed

13

6

{Quere whether to be inserted}? /Consult/ and if any where, where?

Four /Six/ are the distinguishable instruments by which seats are filled: 1

ownership. 2. gift. 3. purchase: 4. terror 5 compromise: 6. good repute: {by good

repute by far the smallest number:}

Of those which are filled by purchase, and incidentally of those which are filled by

ownership and by gift and compromise, observation /notice/ has been made /taken/ in

abundance: of those filled /the mode of filling/ by terror /comparatively/ little in

comparison has been said.

Of the aggregate /the whole number/ of seats it is but a small proportion + that are filled by good repute Yet it is only in so far as they

are thus filled that the constitution is productive of any of that good effect on the

supposition of which it is lauded. /those good effects in the production of which all

the only use of it consists./ It is therefore a statements notoriously false that the

advantage bestowed upon it in the state into which it has been brought is grounded.

The Borough mongering system might be compleatly destroyed and still the great

object /problem/ the subjection of the conduct of the trustees of the people to the

legitimate influence of their principals be still far from its accomplishment: by

laying compleatly open the pocket and the close boroughs the borough-mongering system

might be destroyed: but by those same means the extent of the system of terror would

be encreased.