1818 April 17

Parl. Reform Bill

Reasons

1. Election Districts

III King to appoint

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The existing President of that ever illustrious and at one time constantly /while science was in its infancy so constantly/ useful body is scarcely more conspicuous for that urbanity with which all votaries of science are received and that liberality with which the one of his vast treasures is communicated, than for the least favour with which he has always been armed the proscription kept /vengeance prepared/ in secret[?] for those subordinates in office whose presumption shall have led them to declare an opinion different from that of their superiors, at and upon his decease, his failings will be much more likely than his virtues to descend to his successor. be the successor who he may his failings will be found much easier to copy /of adoption/ than his virtues. {his failings will, without danger of being dashed[?] by recovery be found entailed upon his successor, and with very little chance of finding an heir-loom in his virtues.}

(a) Insert here Banks’s[?] letter to Musket; with an introductory passage exonerating him from the imputation of having communicated it.

The following letter may serve as a specimen. By what accident it fell into my hands it is not necessary to state: what is at the same time requisite and sufficient is to say that it was not with the privity of the person addressed by it to whom it was addressed – that I never had any communication with him – that he knows not of the use thus made of it, nor did he ever[?] know of its being in my hands.