19 June 1811

Abdication

Disfranchisements

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42

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Oh but, I hear Honourable Gentlemen saying /objecting/ - it was /what on this occasion was done, it was/ not for punishment: it was only for remedy that it was done.

Be it so: accordingly then it is not for punishment - it is only for remedy that I venture to propose it to the peoples of the United Kingdom to join in copying /emulating/, though upon a more extensive scale, and with /to/ semblant[?] better effect, the pattern set by their /these/ representatives - representatives in name - their Agents, and upon occasion even their tenable servants - in reality and effect as they have so long felt, and we may see perhaps ere long somewhat more clearly than at present, their masters - their arbitrary and irresponsible masters.

Taken from the comparatively few the franchise was in these instances given to the comparatively many, the few in whom no act /offence/ of transgression had been found were included? Of the franchise they before possessed the force and virtue was diminished - diminished by the difference between the number with which they had been or use to share it before the application of the remedy, and the number with which they were reduced to share it after and in consequence of the remedy.