7 May 1811

Influence

P.I

Ch. 2. J.B.s Propositions

§.1.

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8. To the purpose of the King’s exercising by and through his political servants members of the administrative department over the Members of the House of Commons the influence of understanding over understanding what is necessary is - that they should respectively possess and exercise is the right of sitting and speaking in that assembly: what to that same purpose is not /neither/ necessary nor in any way conducive is - that they or any of them should exercise or possess a right of voting in that assembly.

9. In respect of the power as well of patronage as of management which the King has and ought to have in relation to themselves as well as other persons connected with them by the various ties of interest and sympathy, so long as /if so it be that/ they have votes, it can not but be that the King by his will /to the purpose of commanding and determining those votes/ should possess and exercise over their respective wills that influence which if proposition the 6 th be true he ought not to exercise.