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[129b-457]
25 April 1817
Plan Cat
Conclud g Note
Introd
§.18
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I speak of the practice: /exercise:/ for as to the use of it – that is gone already. For any use they can now be of Petitions may as well be sent to Kamchatka or Botany Bay as to Honourable House. By Petitions the people of every part of the country might and /could and did/ without danger converse with every other: now all that converse is at an end.
From the Chair but t’other day a proposal of measure of economy – a grand measure of economy having for its subject the Voter, the excessive and useless voluminousness of which had become evident /manifest/ to every Honourable eye. Proposition acceded to force and from both sides of the House. Of this measure of economy what was the object let any one say that please. Behold here one of the effects. Of Petitions for reform in any shape the existence mentioned: of the lines of the purport not a syllable. Till now Petitions for reform had if received been printed at length: and at so reasonable a price as that of preserving the forms of respect & Petition for any purpose might have been made receivable. Now if to the people in the character of Petitioners what were the minds of the state of which through such a channel any useful intelligence /information/ could be obtained The mind of Honourable House: no: what that has been is and will be is abundantly known without the being declared but the minds of one another. Through that channel though still as it were in a whisper they could thus communicate one with another without much danger from the Habeas Corpus suspension, and without any danger at all from libel-law
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Title: [[129b-458] 25 April 1817 Plan]Description: [129b-458] 25 April 1817 Plan Cat Conclud g Note Concluded[?] §.18 4 That[?] there is /we have/ /believe[?]/ a measure of economy. By a simple Vote of the House of Commons passed at the instance /proposition/ of the Right Honourable the Speaker behold this part of the Bill of Rights repealed – virtually indeed but not the less effectually repealed – and this too without so much as the expence of an Act of Parliament: Opposition not less than Administration – Whigs not less than Tories in raptures at the thoughts of so economical a measure. Behold here a shape in which all men whose delight is in Economy may even in these times make sure of seeing it: a shape – every shape – in which by and with Economy Legitimacy is served. In this shape may Economy depend at all times upon being served by Honourable House served with unfeigned as well as undissembled pleasure: and the greater the delight with which it is served in this shape, the less the need which will be seen due[?] of its being served in any other shape. By this one measure of refined economy, the Coronet, which with its deputy-supporting pension awaits the retreat of acknowledged merit, be not only will it be merited but (oh well timed fruit of genius!) the expence of it saved. And after this can any eye be blind to the use of Peerages and of Pensions?
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Title: [[129b-462] nd [wm 1816] Where]Description: [129b-462] nd [wm 1816] Where petitions are concerned behold how dear how jealously dear is economy to Honourable House: Gentlemen give themselves the monopoly of it. For Honourable House alone is that pure virtue made: none of it for swinish multitude. In giving expression to their sighs for relief, to save the charge of transcript, the press had been thought to be open to the two-legged swine ... Presumptuous thought!: an existing Resolution – a ready-made Resolution a Resolution mind[?] by ambiguity above the waves of controversy was created absolutely out of nothing: a Resolution forbidding without reason and against reason the application of that matchless instrument of our times[?] this which till now had been numbered among the most beneficial of all earthly purposes. Why why was so much pretious time consumed time of the Monarch – time of both the Houses – consumed in the labour clearing away those other nuisances. For clearing the hand of government at once of all these cobwebs, one House with one hand to it might have served: one House for the execution of the plan: one head for the invention of it.
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Title: [[129b-456] 25 April 1817 Plan]Description: [129b-456] 25 April 1817 Plan Cat Conclud g Note Introd §.18 2 Something in particular it had been my intention to say on the subject of Petitions: were it only for the purpose of suggesting to all who could venture to regard the Bill of Rights as still in force to maintain from beginning to end that stile of address of which in these rash and audacious pages may so it be /if/ interpreted by the rule of centuries may made to afford a sample – to present on this subject all that time will allow of my saying is, that for those to whom the exercise of that right may afford matter of amusement will do well to take /be speedy in taking/ their last of it have no time to lose if it be their wish to take the /in taking their/ last of it. Their last of it? No: /for already has/ that last has been taken.
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