1818 Dec. 30.

Parl Reform Bill

Dialogue

Prelim

Evils & Remedies

Dialogue 3

II. Remedies

Recommendatory Certificate

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Anti-Reformist. Very well then. Open the doors of your House to the /your/ full

width, and I will peer[?] in upon your swinish multitude, till all your principal

Election evils Miselection, Non-Election and Null Election are poured[?] in upon you

in a full tide.

Reformist. Excuse me Not you indeed.

Anti Reformist. How so?

One short paper stops your hands: - my Recommendatory Certificate. No person can be

susceptible /put in/ of receiving votes without a certificate declaring an opinion

/in pursuance/ of his aptitude, and after being eventually willing to serve, signed

by a certain limited number of persons: say half a dozen or a dozen. By these a

deposit in money towards the expence of the Election must be made. Unrespectable men,

in number sufficient to produce confusion would not be found thus to throw away their

money: respectable men would not throw away their reputation by proposing a man known

to be unrespectable.