3 Feb. 1817

Plan Cat. Introd. Rudiments

§. Introd.

Members classed.

2

Sinister Sacrifice

{ 18 or 1

Effect – constant sacrifice of community aggregate interest to partial d o of Monarch and his instruments. }

19 or 2 Members classed

Classes of men provided

1 Men of all work

2 Idlers

3 Terrorists: many included in the Idlers –

20 or 3 Members classed.

1 Men of all work, placemen: in possession or expectancy:

sole use of their votes as contradistinguished from their seats engaging them to take a constant & leading part leading part in

the sacrifice –

{ 21 or 4 Terrorists

Terrorists who? Classes on whom the term is exercised.

I Electors – viz – Tenants and other dependants. Vote-compelling Terrorists

2. Competitors, or would-be d o.

Competition-repelling Terrorists

22 or 5 Terrorists

Instrument of terror.

1 On Electors, publicity of the suffrage a removal of

2 on Competitors, overbearing purse: }

{ 23 or 6 Terrorists

1 Country State.

Principal Terrorists Great Land holders – viz- Peers and richest Country Gentlemen

expence of journey and demurrage considered, nothing but terror /compulsion/ (add a

bribery) could suffice to send the votors to the distance they have to travel (50-

miles)

24 or 7 Terrorists

Here terror and bribery act, one, or both, in various proportions: terror as far as

it can be employed: in default of it, bribery –

25 or 8 Terrorists

1 County seats –

Persons operated upon by the terror are

I Country Gentlemen less opulent

2 d o. less abounding in ready money –

3 - or in appropriate ambition. }

26 or 9. Terrorists

Intellectual aptitude being rather inversely than directly as oppulence, natural

consequence general in aptitude in these seats

{ 27 or 10 Terrorists

Competitors excluded by Terrorists – all whose | | surplus of money is in their eyes

insufficient for a contest i.e the great bulk of those most highly endorsed with the

several elements of appropriate aptitude. }

{ 28 or 11 Terrorists

The Money holding Terrorists are less mischievous than the Land-holding d o. for }

1 They have more appropriate intellectual aptitude Ex-gr

1 Merchants

2 Manufacturers

3 Acting Managers of great Corporation

4 Men inured[?] to Government in British India

29 or 12 Terrorists

2 On Electors they operate less by terror – more by comparatively innoxious bribery –

{ 30 or 13 Property

So much for the legitimate influence of property: ie aristocratical – not better than

monarchical legitimacy }

31 or 14 Property

Under no one of the elements of aptitude is property

included: for no one of them does it exclude the demand –

Part I. The cause of the disorder stated and the cause of it stated

Part II. The sole possible remedy stated and explained in principle

Part III. The disorder and its causes explain in detail