1819 Apr. 4

To Erskine 7 IV Whig Demerits

Fallacies

III Glorious Revolution

J. B. give for answer: these but things would not answer our purpose: not in 1.[?] we are above them &c

by a set of imposture who either appreciating themselves is forcing others to appreciate them, exercise a tyranny of which a mixture of fraud and force is the instrument, what depredation and oppression, all continually encreasing, are the result.

They would endeavour to cause it to be believed /make us /man/ believe that the existence of a King, mad and foolish enough to try to govern without the sort of tool called a Parliament instead of making the existing quantity of appropriate matter into the sort of tool we see and feel was and is the single defect which in the Constitution in question then had or now has "place". They would endeavour to cause it to be believed that in these days no seats were filled by bribery or what is so much worse by intimidation by that intimidation which in no place /situation/ nor at any time wealth can[?] case, even without acting /perceptible action/ apply to indigence, or /and/ that the existence of such bribery and intimidation and the tyranny and imposture /falshood/ which accompanies all voting performed under such a yoke are no /not defects. They would cause it to be believe if they could that freedom of defect in 1688 is a sufficient reason for refusing to endure any removal of defects in 1819 even of those very defects of which in the same breath they themselves are denying indeed but at the same time confessing the existence.