24 Jan y 1810

Parl y Reform

Ch. 9 Seat Gift

'.3. Mischief to patron's mind

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'.3. Mischief to the patron's mind

Many words can not surely here be needful, to shew the immorality of the supposed mental mischief in the instance of this one of the dramatis personae here in question /character in our drama/, to shew that if in the instance of the presiding one it is ideal, in the instance of the present one it is still more manifestly so.

The situation and course of action in which the patron places his dependent the incumbent is one in which there exists no moral wrong in which it is not in the nature of the case that the incumbent himself (who is the party chiefly benefited) should see any: still further then is it from being in the nature of the case that the patron should see any.