23 Jan y 1817

Inserendum

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§.13. Members classed

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{Quere whether to be inserted}? /Consult/ and if any where, where?

Four /Six/ are the distinguishable instruments by which seats are filled: 1

ownership. 2. gift. 3. purchase: 4. terror 5 compromise: 6. good repute: {by good

repute by far the smallest number:}

Of those which are filled by purchase, and incidentally of those which are filled by

ownership and by gift and compromise, observation /notice/ has been made /taken/ in

abundance: of those filled /the mode of filling/ by terror /comparatively/ little in

comparison has been said.

Of the aggregate /the whole number/ of seats it is but a small proportion + that are filled by good repute Yet it is only in so far as they

are thus filled that the constitution is productive of any of that good effect on the

supposition of which it is lauded. /those good effects in the production of which all

the only use of it consists./ It is therefore a statements notoriously false that the

advantage bestowed upon it in the state into which it has been brought is grounded.

The Borough mongering system might be compleatly destroyed and still the great

object /problem/ the subjection of the conduct of the trustees of the people to the

legitimate influence of their principals be still far from its accomplishment: by

laying compleatly open the pocket and the close boroughs the borough-mongering system

might be destroyed: but by those same means the extent of the system of terror would

be encreased.