13 Jan y 1817

Necessity Cat

II. Application

§ Members Classes

§.4. Constitution present real state

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1. Pocket Boroughs 2. Close Boroughs. 3. Open or disputable Boroughs. 4 Counties

1. Country Gentlemen 2. Placemen. 3. Mercantile men 4. Nominees of Country Gentlemen

and Peers

1. Modes of entrance. 1. Private Farm. 2. Purchase without competition. 3. Purchase

as the result of competition. 4. Pecuniary intimidation.

Q. II. Well and now as to those deputies, the representatives of these same Electors

– the Members of the Commons House of Parliament. In what way and by what means is it

that according to you that Assembly is fitted for being /in a state to be/ moulded to

that same sinister purpose.

A. Before an answer can be given to this question it will be necessary to make a

sort of distribution in the first place of the Electoral Districts distinguished

according to /according to distinctions taken from/ the nature of the sort of

arrangement by which the seats belonging to them are filled: and in the next place, a

{correspondent} distribution of the population of the Assembly, classes designative

/expressive/ of the means by /manner in/ which they have found entrance into such

their seats, and thence of the manner in which they respectively stand exposed to the

corruptive influence of the Monarchs separate and sinister interest.