JB_129_584.xml

Title: [[129b-584] 11 Feb. y 1817 Plan]

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11 Feb. y 1817

Plan. Cat.

2 o

Intro

Part VI

Absentation

Introd

§ Absentation

Peculiar to House

3

Here then behold once more the office of purse-brandishing and competition-excluding provision By excluding in such countless multitude those who in an indefinite degree were copiously endowed than the existing set with appropriate aptitude in all its three several shapes it leaves the door of the House open to those and those alone, who either can not or will not respectively give to this the most important of all duties more than a minute fraction of their time?

This man would be of use in the House – that man would be of use in the House – be it so. Of use in the House when he is in the House: yes: but of what use in the House is he when he is not there?

{An Attorney General of use in the House! O Yes. A[?] special use! a creature in whom self-will is extinct: who must continue to be the blind instrument of the Corrupter Generals will, or cease to be what he is: who can never afford to enter into the house but when he is bid, nor is ever bid but when the need of him is most pressing when misrepresentation is to be uttered that mischief may be defended, misrepresentation must be uttered.}

JB_129_419.xml

Title: [[129b-419] 13 Feb. 1817 Plan]

Description: [129b-419]

13 Feb. 1817

Plan Cat

{2 o} 1 o

Introd

§. Moderate Reform

Interests adverse

II. Uselessness

6

{Dependence on the people, independence as against the Corruptor General – on the part of Representatives – in these qualities together with efficient /effected/ obligation to constancy of attendance consists in so far as regards the representatives themselves the essence of Parliamentary reform To all these does radical reform direct itself: to none of them that system which likes /likewise/ calls itself reform, and to which for distinction sake the epithet moderate is attached.}

{Two species of good – two and no more than two – would /could/ the sharpest eye {be able to} discern, viz. the recognition of the necessity of reform, and the setting up the precedent of a change. Considering it in that universe[?] a scheme of moderate reform set up, were it ever so sufficient I should be tempted to give my vote for it, if I had one}

{But unless it were the system of arrangements by which the expence of Election would be reduced, and (if this be now to be considered as belonging to the moderate system) extending to taxpaying Housholders though it be in the Town Electoral Districts alone […?] the right of suffrage difficult would it be to find in moderate reform any […?] that were not pregnant with positive mischief, and that in a deferential shape, while nothing could be more indeterminate or uncertain than the good which in such kinds might /could/ be hoped for from the mere precedent of change.}

1 Encrease of the number of Country Seats what would it be but encrease of terrorism? 2. Division of County Electoral districts into lesser Electoral districts what again would that be but encrease of terrorism? 3. Extension of Electoral Districts from the dimension of a Borough town to that of a Hundred, in a County what would it be but encrease given to a mixture comprised[?] of terrorism and bribery? 4. Purchase proprietary seats and pocket-borough seats what it would be but loading the country with determinate mischief in the shape of addition to taxes, and without any assurance of determinate good in any shape. For when seats were taken out of this one bad shape what could be done with them but the putting them into one or other of those two other bad shapes?

[marginal insertion:] and those such only as according to those schemes in question would be new ones

JB_129_645.xml

Title: [[129b-645] 26 Jan[?] 1819[?]]

Description: [129b-645]

26 Jan[?] 1819[?]

19 Feb

Parl Reform Cat

Collectanea

Intro

{Contents and Ordo

1. Contempt of Judges & other Lawyers for Parl t. exemplification already noticed

1. Mass[?] & Co s contempt

2. Double for contempt

2

3. Add here to prove the universality and of participation and the pertinacity

3[?]. Non-discharge contempt

3

Sole remedy. Committee on the state of Justice.

4

First object of the Committee, cases in which misconception was impossible

5

J.B.s able to indicate several such cases

5

* Invitation for others

6

Facienda for Committee

1. To Report[?] to House and House to punish the offending Solicitors if alive. Qu. as to […?] before Judges

7

House after hearing Judges to come to Resolutions of Penance and to send them to Lords for […?] […?]}

Chron. 22 Feb y 1817

Shoreditch Petition[?] […?] Returned by 89 Peers in England and Wales 218

By 21 Peers in Scotland 31

By 36 Peers in Ireland 51

300

By 90 Commoners in England and Wales 137

By 14 Commoners in Scot. 14

By 19 Do. in Ireland 20

Nominated by Government 16

Total returned by Nominat n 487

Independent of d o

171

Total of House of Commons 658

§.5. Remedy in detail[?]:

1 Immediate[?] causes of mischief sinister interest

2 Causes of d o

1. Undue independence

2. Undue dependence Pag 1

Situations to be considered

1. Electors

2. Representatives 2

Remedies: as to

I. Electors

1. Comprehensive of all interests – therein

2 or 1 Virtual universality of suffrage

3. or 2. Practicable equality of suffrage p.3

4. or 3. Freedom i.e. genuineness or non-spuriousness of suffrage

5. or 4 Secresy of suffrage p.10

II. Representatives Ultimate[?] securities[?]

1. Dependence as to Constituents i.e. Electors.

2. Independence as to Corrupter General Intermediate is instrumental to securities

3. Impermanence of the situation: viz. by annuality of re-election

4 Exclusion of Placemen

5. Universal constancy of attendance.

4

I Encreasing County Seats

simple

1. Pitt the first A o 1770

Meadly p.2

2. Wilkes A o 1776 p3

3. Pitt 2 d A o 1783 p.6

4. Flood A o 1790 p9.

5. Grey A o 1797 p12

6. Brand A o 1810 p.15

7. Brand A o 1812 p.16

II. Striking[?] off[?] or District[?] Boroughs proved rotten

7

1. Pitt 2 d A o 1783 p6.

2 Grey A o 1800 p13

3. Brand A o 1810 p.15

4. Brand A o 1812 p.16

III L d o by purchase

Pitt 2 d A o 1785 p.8

6

IV. Giving seats to populous terms

1. Pitt 2 d A o 1785 p8

2 Gray A o 1797 p12

3. Gray A o 1800 p.13

4. Brand A o 1810 p.15

V Substituting triennuality

Whig

1. Friends of the People A o 1793 p.10

2. Grey A o 1797. p.12

3. Brand A o 1810 p.16.

5

V. Dividing Counties into Electoral Districts

1. Grey A o 1797 p.12

1

VI Admitting Copyholders

1 Grey. A o 1797 p.12

2. Brand. 1810 p.15

3. Brand A o 1812 p.16

2

VII Admitting Leaseholders

1. Grey A o 1797 p12

3

VIII Admitting all Leaseholders to vote for Brougham

1. Grey A o 1797 p.12

10

IX. No man to vote for more than one Member.

1. Grey A o1797. p.12

N o of occasions on which propositions were made 15

Among what N o on which nothing specific was proposed 3

Remain occasions on which d o was d o 12

Deduct Radical 2

Remain moderate 10

1. Giving extension to the Election Franchise

1. In the case of County Seats admitting Copyholders

2. In d o admitting Leaseholders

3. In the case of now or future? Borough Seats admitting Householders

II. Giving encrease to the number of non-Venal seats

4 or 1. County Seats

5 or 2. County distant Seats

6. or 3. Popular Borough Seats

III. Excluding venal seats

7 or 4 without compensation

8. or 5. with compensation

IV. Excluding some of the sold Members

9. or 6.

V. Diminishing expence XI

10 or 7. 11 or 8.

9

X Polling every where in one day.

1. Grey A o 1797. p.12

12

XI. Assimilating Scotch system of representation to England

1. Brand A o 1810 p.15

11

XII. Excluding from seats persons holding offices without responsibility.

1. Brand A o 1810 p.15