23 Dec r 1809

Parl y Reform

Ch.5. Both situations

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But in the case of parliamentary corruption the seat of the disorder comprizes /disorder affects /applies itself to// two situations /stations/: viz. that of Member {of Parliament} and that of Elector: and in each of those situations corruption considered as the effect supposes and requires two different persons to be concerned in the production of it, viz the person to /by/ whom it /the matter of corruption/ is administered: and in the instance of each of these persons the disorder may require to be considered, forasmuch as it has been customary to consider it /customarily considered/, with respect to its influence on two distinguishable objects, a general and a particular one viz. the welfare /health/ of the country, and the health of the corrupted persons mind.

Moreover in each situation the part of corruptor may be performed on the one hand by the King or an agent of the Kings: or on the other hand by some individual not[?] dependent on either the one or the other.

In regard to the treatment of this disorder /offence[?]/ /species of delinquency/ or supposed disorder, if such it be to be stiled two dispositions seem to have been hitherto very generally prevalent: 1. in the first place a disposition and that a determinate one to foster it, and preserve it /to give encouragement /protection/ and encrease to it/ not only from cure /suppression/ but even from all abatement /check/; and a disposition /coupled with /all the time with/ disposition towards the offence[?] a disposition/ to apply punishment to it: always understood and provided, that by the application of the punishment no such effect will or shall or will be produced as the /any/ abatement, or much less the extirpation but rather the aggravation /the exacerbation/ of offence, in a word, for form's and reputation's sake to apply punishment to it, but so as, by confining the punishment to the cases in which the offence[?] is productive of least mischief or of no mischief at all, so to manage as that by the very punishment the mischief of offence so far from extirpated or so much as checked shall be encreased: things being so managed that by confining the punishment to the cases in which the offence if productive of little or no mischief, the offence /delinquency/ shall be confined to those channels[?] in which the mischief producible by it, is at its highest pitch.