25 Dec r 1809

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Ch.12. IV. Vote bought: corruption liquidated

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But this was a very special of things - a state altogether different from the present. It was a state anterior to the present so regularly [...?] system of Court dependence - in comparison of its present magnitude the corruption fund was but a mite. The House of Commons was not then as dependent on the King: the King his crown [...?] settled upon his head was as yet dependent on the House of Commons.