June 1810 1 §.5.

Influence

Ch. Mischief

§.5. 1 Partners in abuse

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§. Independent companies naturally attached to the King’s own regiment[?]

Kings of influenced Member

Anti-reform interest - allies naturally adhering to it, without need of special influence.

I mean even to the purpose of carrying, by a vis matrix[?] as it may be called, any positive measure. But when considered as acting by its own vis inertia[?], viz in such sort as to obstruct and prevent the adoption of any new measure, in to the prevention of which the King possesses or conceives himself to possess /stand engaged by/ an interest, it will be easy to see that the habitual sinister efficiency of the regal will in this case be to a prodigious degree greater than in the other case.

But so long as in the texture of the government so much as a single abuse exists in /from/ which the King derives or appears likely to derive a profit in any shape a profit, so long there will be a beneficial measure which it will be the King’s interest to prevent, and which unless he be of a species different from the human, it must on pain of turning a deaf ear to the suggestions /departure from the principles/ of common sense be for every practical purpose concluded, that it will be his endeavour to prevent.

So many members therefore as there are who by themselves or any of their connections have /possess/ an interest in the preservation of abuse in any shape, so many are there as even without the application of any such instrument /expence[?]/ of distortion as above ought to be considered as labouring to this purpose under an habitual twist of the will /volitional faculty/, disposing and engaging them to resist any and every measure by which if carried abuse would in every shape be abolished or diminished. For no maxim in politics is more thoroughly understood or rather felt or /and in practice/ more steadily applied conformed to /put to use/ than that all those by whom profit in any shape is derived from abuse in any shape are linked /stand engaged/ into partnership by one common interest.