17 Aug 1809

Parl y Reform

Complacency[?]?

Ch. Fears groundless

§.? Fears groundless

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{2. Example of French /France at the time of the/ Revolution.}

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1. The provocation and consequent irritation were far /beyond comparison/ greater than any which could have place on the supposition of the great effectuation, of the proposed parliamentary reform.}

Under the name of parliamentary reform in augmentation of the power or rather of the influence of the people nothing more is contended for than what has had place already: + {1. the members of the intended /imaginable/ and still supposed or at least stiled popular branch of the government placed /replaced/ under the influence of the people as they used /were/ to be: duration of the authority of their deputies instead of continuing long-protracted, viz septennial[?] to be as by /in consequence of/ the usurpation of those deputies it has now been for /a/ these < > years, short as it used to be. 2. those deputies instead of being to a number certain of composing a majority on almost all /all ordinary/ occasions in a state of dependence, withdrawn in some measure from under that dependence withdrawn in some measure, though in great measure still left under it withdrawing them from under it altogether being in the existing state of things /at the state of society at which the country has arrived/ impossible.}

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