18 June 1811

Parl. Reform

On S.C. N o 3

6

 Add community of interest and consequent community of […?]

{Thus in my view of the case /matter/ /of it/ - stands the case /matter/ so far as concerns such of these persons of the first character and consequence as are in or in league with administration at and for the time being.}

But in addition to these excellent persons, as against whom, according to the description given of these by S.C. every thing in the way of which should be either mischievous or useless “(besides the check which one House of Parliament has over the other” (a sort of check which by S.C. himself is upon this occasion not inaptly put into a parenthesis) “we are never without an opposition” (it seems /says he/) “to keep {(please to observe to keep not that do keep}) “a constant watch over the Ministers, and who being themselves candidates for power can only hope to obtain it by professing more purity of principle than their rivals, and are themselves as narrowly watched by their rivals as when they change situations.”