1819 Jan. y 10

Parl. Reform Bill

Preliminary View

Evils & Remedies

II. Remedies

Miselection

II. through transgressions of law

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Leget ut Clericus.[?]

Anti-Reformist. Well now, suppose them all effective and adequate these remedies of

yours for the prevention of Miselection through unfitness on the part of that law

itself in that part of the law by which the qualification of proposed Members and

Electors are respectively appointed /determined/ prescribed, let us now see what

provision you make One cause of Miselection shall remain, I mean the misexecution or

non-execution of the determinations /appointments/ so made. Under the provisions so

made according to the plan chalked out by you, in the District of Freeborough,

Francis Freeman is the proposed Member that ought to have been returned But by mal

practice in some shape or other say force or fraud, not he but William Wrongham has

been returned. What remedies does your plan provide against Miselection from such a

cause?

Reformist. The same that it provides against Non-election and Null Election. Such is

the connection All those Election evils, they are, all of them, liable to be produced

by the same set of causes, all of them capable of being prevented /obviated/ by the

same remedies. Force, fraud, accident – to /under/ one or other of these heads may

all the disastrous causes in question be found referable /reducible/. {Simplicity of

arrangement despatch.} Care taken for the Exclusion of motives to delinquency – for

the exclusion of the means of delinquency, for the notoriety of all the relevant

facts – in this short list you have /these words will conduct you to/ the

remedies