1 June 1819

Disfranchising

Disfranchising

§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members

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§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members

17 or 1

Anti Reformist.

In any other class any larger dose of aptitude?

18 or 2.

Reformist. 1. As to probity, no; unless by mere accident, except in the seats filled

by Westminster and those other Election Districts, if any, where by multitude of

votes and comparative independence Electors probity is efficiently protected against

seductive influence in both shapes.

19 or 3.

2. As to intellectual aptitude, no class that affords so bad a promise (3. See

above.)

20 or 4.

Anti reformist. Said by you already, without appropriate probity, d o. intellectual aptitude is better absent than present; by it the more

efficient aid being given to the improbity opposite to appropriate probity.

§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members

21 or 5.

Reformist, yes; but here comes two modifications 1. In all other classes put together

no such strong body of sinister interest as in this: viz – 1 Peerage: which to its

own House adds the seats to which it nominates in Common’s House –

(3. Quote the number.)

22 or 6.

2. All Landholders whose subsistence is chiefly derived from rent of land.

23 or 7.

All constantly on their knees to Monarch for more money, powers and factitious

dignity.

24 or 8.

To all these are many common bonds and unity of interest: viz –

1. Meetings in Parliam t. House and club Houses &c.

2. Documents such as County Histories, Maps, &c.

3. Justice of Peace Sessions General and Petty.

25 or 9.

Thence mutual encouragement and facility for joining and giving strength and

extension to oppression for crushing all reformists who seek in one another the means

of self defence.

§.5.4. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members

26 or 10.

For an example of the fruit of this common sinister interest, take the facility of |

| secured by them to one another under favour of Judge made law.

27 or 11.

Not possible that by shopkeepers &c. any judgment should be formed of

customer’s ability except from his visible possessions and expenditure: with rank

where he has any.

28 or 12.

Higher-order men run in debt with them in all ways – on his death, his land, with

younger son’s fortunes on it goes to his family free from all such debt. To the

unconsumed remnants of his moveables these creditors have to go to Law with, and with

their Lawyers to gain undue advantage over one another.

29 or 13.

Established was this arrangement not by Parliament but by Lawyers for their own

benefit, and that of the Aristocracy of which they are Members and in which they saw

the chief part of their