[129b-607]

13 Feb. 1817

Plan Cat.

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Introd

Absentation

Sole remedy Impermanence

5

Among the Whigs, with all their plans – all without exception sham ones – (behold them all in the ensuing Appendix) in what instance, so much as in pretence is any remedy to be found for this radical disease? Encrease to the number of County seats – that is seats filled by Lands-holding Terrorism – decrease in the number of proprietary, and rotten Borough seats: decrease viz by money to be given out of the taxes to purchase of the proprietors the faculty of establishing more seats to be filled either by Landholding or purse-brandishing terrorism or what is always a less mischief bribery – in these with some means of simplification for lessening that expence which the proposed triennuality with which they are coupled, would after the reduction double – in these behold their means their only means of salvation.

And in what degree – by all these means taken together could any such footing as that of a dependence of representation on constituents or so much as of the necessity of employing the whole or any part of their time, well or ill, in the business of the office, be produced. In the execution of the functional[?] portion of supreme power attached to this their office, despots they are now – despots after the least […?] of these reforms they would remain and remain for ever.