[129b-443]

16 March 1817

Plan Cat

2 o

Introd

§18 Defence suffrage

XIV 927 Extract[?] 926 Speech 838

{When a public abuse of any kind} When in any shape without exception a public abuse has place my notion of the matter is, that the more notorious it can be made the better because the greater the notoriety the greater if any is the chance of its being removed. “ The scandal which if not reprobated the traffic in question would “ bring upon Parliament” in this scandal and the shamelessness i.e the openness of the market it was in those accessory /collateral/ circumstances that by M r Speaker in his celebrated speech the principal part if not the whole of the evil appears to have been viewed: and that so far as concerns the share possessed by C – r General /the servants of the Crown/ in this traffic in his eyes it was not the existence of the monopoly /trusts/ in question but only the notoriety of it /it/ that in his eyes constituted /consisted/ the real evil appears but too plainly in the pains taken /but too successful labour employed/ by him in a subsequent stage of the business towards the securing to them that monopoly of it which as above was so vainly resisted by Lord Folkstone. “The great rule according to him a great rule {spick and span and made for the purpose /(a rule made it should seem for the occasion)/ was to strike at the prominent and most flagrant points of the offence: that is to say to strike at the offence in that shape and that shape only viz. in the shape of an “ express contract” that being the shape in which among /between/ persons of the class in question it was not customary nor ever could be needful that it should be committed. [+] With the whole weight of his influence – and of the additional quantity derived from the antecedent speech contended for the insertion of the word express, referring the exclusion of it to any future enactments ... which in the course of the operation of this measure might subsequently arise

[marginal heading:] the “openness of the market

[+] p.926