1818 Sept. 9.

Things as they are

Appendix

Borough Mongers

§.1.

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What is true is – that to the Monarch it belongs to dissolve the Parliament and with it the House of Commons whenever he pleases: 2. that in the hands of the Monarch alone is the power of appointment with regard to all offices and of removal at pleasure in regard to the greatest part of the value[?] of whole mass, purse and pay taken together: 3. that in the hands of the Monarch alone is the whole of the military power, by sea and by land, over regulars and over non-regulars and that in no one of these powers are the so-called Borough mongers either collectively or individually considered partakers.

On the other hand what is no less true is that of the persons appointed by these so called Borough Mongers /these Borough mongers and the persons appointed by them/ is composed a considerable majority of the Members of the House of Commons: true it is moreover /perhaps/ that by a dissolution of Parliament it would not at any time be in the power of the Monarch to destroy their effective power to reduce their habitual majority to a minority.

But to the members of this set of Borough mongers the object of concupiscence, those objects by which alone /principally/ such their condition is rendered valuable to them are many by office and commission – power by peerage bishopricks and inferior office, and fictitious dignity in all its various shapes, and by any other hand than his /without his concurrence thought[?]/ not one of all these good things is there any one of them that could ever possess himself of.