1819 Jan y 10

Dialogue

Preliminary View

Evils & Remedies

II. Remedies

Miselection

I. through seduction

1. Coercive } Will

2. Seductive }

3. Deceptive – Understanding

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Anti-Reformist. Well – such was the armour you have provided for the heart of your

Electors. I shall be glad to find it proof. Now what have you done for their heads?

How do you guard them against deception?

Reformist. Alas! I wish that in every[?] case it was possible to provide for the

head any such effectual armour, as in this case I have made sure of providing for the

heart. If I do but succeed in providing for it the most effectual armour the nature

of the case admitts of, I trust /flatter myself/ you will be satisfied.

Anti-Reformist. I should be very unreasonable if I were not: always supposing that

the direction taken by the wills of the majority of the Electors in a majority of the

Election districts is the proper one.

Reformist. Well then, against general deception my remedies are two: 1. notoriety of

all relevant facts[?] and arguments /say in a word notoriety/. 2. shortness of the

time during which without fresh election the Representative continues in his seat,

say in two words annuality of election. The first a preventive remedy, the other a

healing one. The first, a remedy that prevents the disorder /for preventing the

mischief/; the other, for putting an end to it.

Be the field of /the portion of/ thought and action what it may, in the diffusion of

information I behold the patriots and philanthropists remedy: in the suppression of

it the tyrants remedy.