6 Sep. 1809 +

Parl y Reform

B. III. Influence &c

'. Corrupt[?] syst[?] preparative

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To what end admitting representation of the people, if unfit?

What[?] admitt them only to be corrupted.

Ch. 18. Systems of Corruption and Uncorruption compared

'.1. Under the system of Corruption, leads to worse and worse

Of two principles or springs of action - /both not only/ applicable and /but/ applied to the purpose /business/ of government - which demands the preference? that which is continually growing /making thin/ worse and worse or that which is continually growing /making things/ better and better?

The principle which is continually growing worse and worse is the principle of corruption: the /that/ principle which dictates /prescribes/ /enjoins/ the continuing in a continued state of corruption an efficient /the ordinary/ majority of the representatives of the people.

The principle which is continually growing better and better is the principle of uncorruption: that principle which dictates /prescribes/ /enjoins/ the placing the representation of the people in that state whatsoever it may in which as small a number as possible none at all, if it be possible may find themselves in that state.

Under the principle of corruption, the King and his dependents have at their disposal for their own use and for others use more money and power /of the peoples money, and more power at the peoples expence/ than they need or ought to have: of this they employ a certain part in corrupting the representatives of the people: the representatives of the people that there may be more and more money and power to be disposed of /distributed/ in this same manner among themselves and their corruptors (most of them too being at the same time corruptors and corrupted) put more and more of the people's money with more and more of the power exercised at the expence of the people at the joint disposal of themselves and their corruptors: having thus got more of the matter of good and object of desire in both these intimately connected shapes, they thus have at command a still greater /an additional/ quantity of this pretious matter to imploy in the same manner and apply to the same purposes.