7 Jan y 1810

Parl y Reform

A + '.2.

Ch. 10.III. Seat Traffic

'.2. Objections insufficient?

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'.1 or 2. Objections to the traffic of seats - insufficient and inconsistent

The real mischief is of these who act as agents of the people the interest is not sufficiently identified with the interest of the people.

In so far as to any mode of obtaining a seat /coming into Parliament/ any objection is made that is founded on public utility and the acknowledged principle of the constitution, it resolves itself into that: and if that objection be set aside one mode of coming into Parliament is easily[?] as good as another.

Allow /Admitt/ that so far as the state of the representation admitts of this traffic the interest of the agents of the people is not sufficiently identified with that of their principals, and admitting at the same time that it ought to be so /such identification has not been effected /accomplished/, and at the same time that it ought to be effected/, then on this condition you may without inconsistency /rationally and consistently/ reprobate this traffic: refuse either of these admissions, you can not.

No consistent censure of which this traffic is the object can by any [...?] be pronounced, but that in pronouncing it, and for the purpose of grounding it the necessity of parliamentary reform must, virtually and substantially, howsoever tacitly - must by an implication altogether necessary have been assumed.