1819 May 18 + B

Disfranchising

Disfranchising

§.5. Evil 4. Encreasing Country Members

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Anti Reformist And is /exists/ there any other class of men in whose instance you expect to find /in/ any larger dose of your appropriate aptitude, you who not expect to find it any where

Reformist As to what concerns appropriate probity under the present state of the Representative, unless it be by mere accident, I do not expect to find it any where, except in the seats filled by the Westminster Election District and those others if any such there be, in which the number of votes is so great as to afford to the /be capable at least of affording to the aggregate virtue[?] of/ voters adequate protection against the assaults of seductive and sinister influence in both its opposite shapes.

But as to appropriate intellectual aptitude, there exists not as it seems to me any other class of men in whose instance so bad a promise is afforded of it, as in the instance of this class.

Anti-Reformist But if you have not said already I am /you are/ here prepared to say that without appropriate probity, appropriate intellectual aptitude had better be absent than present, insomuch as it enables a man but so much the better to give effect to those sinister wishes designs and endeavours which in proportion to his deficiency in the article of appropriate probity he can not but harbour /his breast can not but be the seat and the source/.