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16 March 1817

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§18. Defence

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made in the only way in which by /among/ Honourable Gentlemen it is either natural or needful that they should be made, the influence of the Crown howsoever encreasing ought not at that time at any rate (June 1 and 7 1809) ought not to be diminished. that it was by the scandalousness i.e. the notoriety i.e. the exposure to restraint and not in the sufferings in any shape produced by an offence that the demand for punishment to be attached to an offence consists: and that accordingly forasmuch as when performed /consummated/ by a contract which was not an express but only an implied one no scandal is produced therefore {such being the case that contracts by which in the mode in which as on other occasions so in /on/ that of /by/ the purchase of seats the influence of the Crown is encreased} when it is in this mode that /in so far at least as/ the encrease is produced /effected/ the effects of it on the Constitution are not as the vulgar men in question might suppose of a pernicious but of a beneficial and salutary nature.

Heartily sorry am I that it is not in my power to see the matter of influence in the same convenient and cheering point of view: on a great variety of accounts it would be convenient to me in the extreme: but alas! it is not in my power.