8 Oct r 1809

Parl y Reform

B. I. Necessity

Ch. Occasional inadequate

§.2. Changes, inadequate

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Thus it is that in respect of so much as a remission of the disease the remedy is in

its operation altogether precarious and inadequate.

Of any thing like a compleat intermission its efficacy /adequacy/ is still more

compleatly inadequate.

As to prevention to any such purpose the power of the remedy is still more

problematical /questionable/ and feeble. For ten years has mischief been going on

without controul unless in so far as the bare possibility that by mischief on this or

that particular occasion mischief in this or that particular shape the sort of crisis

in question may peradventure be accelerated.

Against violent and unprecedented mischiefs acts each of them openly and avowedly

subversive of the constitution even this check, feeble as it is may perhaps be not

altogether without its effect: and to this may we perhaps be indebted for the having

a jubilee to celebrate under a King not avowedly absolute instead of under a King as

absolute as the Emperor Bonaparte.

But against petty or customary /mischiefs and/ instances of misrule in any number

that it affords no protection experience but too plainly testifies: the governing a

vast majority of the inhabitants of one of the three kingdoms upon principles upon

/by/ which their interests are avowedly set at nought and sacrificed: {sacrificed

either to nothing at all or to the humour and that the ill humour of one man.}

holding the liberty of the press in a state of avowed extinction by a species of

spurious law /rules of pretended law/ which wants /want for/ nothing but opportunity

to be carried into effect {as if it were genuine}.