1 Jan y 1810

Parl y Reform

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Ch.13.V. Bribe unliquidated.

'.1. Public mischief

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Ch.13. Continuation. V. Corruption occasional; benefit gained or sought a particular vote: matter of corruption unliquidated.

'1. 1. Mischief to the public.

This case it was found impossible to avoid bringing to view under a preceding head. The purpose for which it was in that occasion brought to view was that of being contrasted with another. but for the light thus reflected by this contrast neither could have been viewed in its proper colours.

In both cases the mischief the real mischief consists in the parliamentary result, as above explained. Suppose the result preponderantly good, all preponderant mischief is ideal. /imaginary./ Suppose the result preponderantly bad, then in proportion to the clear badness of it comes the mischievousness or is rather is the same thing with it.

{A parliamentary result good or bad having been produced - a good or a bad measure carried into effect or frustrated and so forth can any real difference be seriously believed to be produced by any difference either in the shape or in th quantum of the benefit or other portion of the matter whether of good or evil, by the operation of which or the mind of this or that Member is in the minds of the several Members composing the majority {by which the vote was determined} the result was produced: a place - a parson[?] or writership or commission[?] is some liquidated, or some unliquidated - the hope of gaining it, the fear of losing it - female favours or female frowns - a word an object in any imaginable shape - of avarice or desire? Not, rarely, of any such faculty as that of reason have existence in his mind.}