30 Dec r 1809

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Ch. Parl Corrupted[?] I Members? II Electors?

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On this occasion, the immediate subject of consideration /the enquiry/ is the manner in which the Member in question comes in possession of his seat: not the course of his conduct not the line of conduct which while he continues in it he may be expected to pursue.

But on a preceding occasion, the mode of a mans coming into /by/ his seat was a circumstance that could not but be brought to view: for the direct subject of the consideration enquiry being what in the situation in question the line of conduct pursued by him was /is/ likely to be, the mode of his coming into that situation was necessarily brought to view, viz. in the character of a circumstance by which is conduct in it could not but be more or less influenced, and under some circumstances absolutely and continually determined.

A considerable circumstance that contributed to render it requisite and necessary to enter, even under this present general head thus far into the consideration of the mode of a man's coming by /entrance into/ his seat, is that as yet for this purpose the situation of the Parliamentary Elector by whose suffrage the person in question is placed in such his seat, does not as yet come upon the carpet. It is indeed by an influence of some sort or other exercised by the patron of the seat in the Electors by whose suffrage the seat is filled, that the placing /seating/ of the incumbent in that seat is accomplished such then is the case: but in what particular mode or modes this influence is capable of being productive of such its effect is a question that will still remove[?] for our second general head, viz. the influence of the system of corruption and corrupt dependence of the situati n of parliamentary Electors.