20 Jan y 1817

Necessity Cat

II. Application

§.4. Constitution - present real state

V. Corruptive mode of operating

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1. His susceptibility. 2. he not being susceptible of any adequate restraint.

Q. < >. V. Well. The view we have taken of the mass of the matter of corruptive influence capable of operating in that character in support of the separate and sinister interests of the Monarch and his adherents is pretty extreme, and can not it should seem be much if any thing short of being adequate. Now, as to the next[?] in which it operates or may be made to operate to /towards/ that end.

A. It operates of itself so powerfully and effectually of itself, that to render it effectual and irresistible and sufficient for this sinister purpose, scarce is there any need of a directing hand.

On this occasion among /of/ the classes of persons on whom it was capable of operating and is in use to operate to this end the first class to be considered if not the only class to be considered are the Members of the Houses and in particular the Members of the House of commons of the House in which the deputies real and pretended of the people have their seats: for in these are the acting powers /is a[?] whole of the self acting power/ of government: and so long as these are bent and moulded to the sinister purpose in question while they are there, it matters not by whom they are placed there.