[clxiv. 209]

1820 June 30

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

To tie up their own hands in their individual capacities, or to tie up the hands of the party into which they had formed themselves - to set any effectual limit to the power of which they had put themselves in possession, to make of that power any considerable /the smallest/ sacrifice to the universal interest, and in particular that part of it which is composed of /composes/ the interest of the subject many - if any such things were in their thoughts no such things are to be found in their acts Corruptive influence in every shape - coercive and corruptive influence of Members of the House of Lords and other great proprietors on the election of Members of the House of Commons - corruptive influence of the Monarch his advisers and other servants /living instruments/ on the Members of and thence their command of the acts and proceedings of both those Assemblies /bodies/, remained untouched, remained in full vigour, and by sure howsoever slow degrees repairing into that full maturity of rottenness of which the existence is so plainly /undeniably established/ and the effects so severely and extensively felt at present.