1818 Dec. 25

Parl Reform Bill

Dialogue

Preliminary View

Evils & Remedies

Evils

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Anti-Reformist. That by /thus[?] in/ being excluded, individuals may feel or at least

fancy themselves to be sufferers, how much so ever the public may be a gainer by the

exclusion, this is what I can conceive without much difficulty. Also, how by

admission given to those who ought not to have been admitted, the public may be a

sufferer: this is sufficiently obvious: but who the individuals can be who in this

case are /become/sufferers, this is not quite so obvious, upon your scheme of virtual

universality I mean.

Reformist. The greater the number of voters, the less the influence and value of each

vote. In the case of New Sarum or Gatton, it would be obvious enough: and if instead

of one or two the numbers were 4000 the harm would be the same in kind differing only

in degree.