19 June 1811

Abdication

Disfranchisements

3

43

17

What I do not take upon me to say is - that on this occasion for the conversion of corruption into incorruption, all was done that might and ought to have been done:

But what I do take upon me to say is - that so far as it went it affirmed the justice and in any point of view the propriety of applying to the disorder in question a remedy the burthen of which should fall /press/ upon shoulders /other shoulders/ other than these, to whom any share in the production in the disorder, any delinquency in any shape could be imputed.

On the ground of a single act of corruption, to the prejudice of a multitude of persons to whom no act of delinquency in any shape could be imputed persons to many of whom it may have happened to resist /oppose/ on that occasion an effectual resistance to the temptation under the force of which the probity of so many others sunk, the election franchise was with respect to two /four/ seats out of the 558 (the then number), the election franchise was for the purpose of thenceforward giving additional freedom /freedom/ to the made Election in respect of these seats thrown open to other persons in an encreased number. Here then in the ground of an act of delinquency or[?] an act of corruption committed on one single occasion by one part of the whole number of the Electors, they together with a number of others not partakers in this or any other act of delinquency, are, no matter in what account particular /individual/ punishment, or general reform.