JB_129_443.xml

Title: [[129b-443] 16 March 1817 Plan]

Description: [129b-443]

16 March 1817

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Introd

§18 Defence suffrage

XIV 927 Extract[?] 926 Speech 838

{When a public abuse of any kind} When in any shape without exception a public abuse has place my notion of the matter is, that the more notorious it can be made the better because the greater the notoriety the greater if any is the chance of its being removed. “ The scandal which if not reprobated the traffic in question would “ bring upon Parliament” in this scandal and the shamelessness i.e the openness of the market it was in those accessory /collateral/ circumstances that by M r Speaker in his celebrated speech the principal part if not the whole of the evil appears to have been viewed: and that so far as concerns the share possessed by C – r General /the servants of the Crown/ in this traffic in his eyes it was not the existence of the monopoly /trusts/ in question but only the notoriety of it /it/ that in his eyes constituted /consisted/ the real evil appears but too plainly in the pains taken /but too successful labour employed/ by him in a subsequent stage of the business towards the securing to them that monopoly of it which as above was so vainly resisted by Lord Folkstone. “The great rule according to him a great rule {spick and span and made for the purpose /(a rule made it should seem for the occasion)/ was to strike at the prominent and most flagrant points of the offence: that is to say to strike at the offence in that shape and that shape only viz. in the shape of an “ express contract” that being the shape in which among /between/ persons of the class in question it was not customary nor ever could be needful that it should be committed. [+] With the whole weight of his influence – and of the additional quantity derived from the antecedent speech contended for the insertion of the word express, referring the exclusion of it to any future enactments ... which in the course of the operation of this measure might subsequently arise

[marginal heading:] the “openness of the market

[+] p.926

JB_128_196.xml

Title: [1818 May 15 Parl. Reform Bill]

Description: 1818 May 15

Parl. Reform Bill

Reasons?

VIII Penal Securities

Accessory

Sequential Offences

*5

Offences riding[?] in tendency &[?] completed offences

In description Sequence of offences depends on the term

employed for the designation of the consummated offence.

The descriptive name according to the nature of the consummated offence /the

consummated has a name belonging to it/.

Connective mutual Offences /Consequently successive concatenated offences/ of the

same sequence /connected in the way of causation/ in a sequence, or Offences inchoate

and consummated with /considered as bearing/ relation to the above Election are as

follows.

1. The consummated offence an offence considered as consummated.

2. Any act in which the consummated offence has its commencement. Such act, if the

offence fails of being consummated – i.e. if the pernicious design fails in so far of

being accomplished, is denominated an attempt.

3. Any preparatory act, or act of simple preparation,

perfor- /exercised/ with the design of producing the effect produced by the

consummated offence, but in point of time anterior to the act which is considered as

an attempt.

Offences thus concatenated may be the offences of the same individual, or offences

of so many different individuals. One individual may be convicted of the consummated

offence, another of an attempt to committ in prosecution of the same individual

design that same species of consummated offence: which attempt of the offence in

question is not consummated, is but an abortive attempt: another individual of an act

which with reference to that same offence considered as consummate is but an act of

preparation: not having run /advanced/ to the length of an attempt.

JB_129_448.xml

Title: [[129b-448] 16 March 1817 Plan]

Description: [129b-448]

16 March 1817

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§18. Defence

Inserendum

One supposition indeed there is on which it might be not altogether so easy for the Right Honourable arbiter to afford a compleat acquittal to /acquit/ the Noble Lord. This is that in and by the article what in the case in question is supposed to have been employed in the capacity of an instrument of corruption an addition was made to the quantity of that matter antecedently existing at the disposal of the Servants of the Crown and destined to be applied to the purpose of sinister influence /the sort of influence here in question/. Antecedently to the establishment of the Board of Controul, that any part of the patronage of British India was in the hands of the Crown. At the time in question by the example in question it appears that a part of that patronage viz. one writership was at the command of the Servant of the Crown viz. by means[?] of the Presidency of the Board of Controul. For, one of these Writerships was it seems at the command of those faithful servants ready to be employed in the purchase in question in the purchase of the next presentation to a seat. At that time what may have been, since that time what may be, the number of those articles transferred from the East India Directors and lodged in the hands of the Board of Controul and incidentally or customarily and regularly applied to this convenient and accommodating purpose? This is the article of information, the attainment of which if practicable might, if it were only in the way of gratification to the appetite of curiosity, have its use.