7 Jan y 1810

Parl y. Reform

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Ch.14. Electors

'.4. Borough settling

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'.4. Anecdote for illustration - How to settle a borough.

 Confront[?] the Rudiment on p.4

Here follows a short history of a short enterprize. Besides the /what/ light it may serve to throw upon the present enquiry, the object {and nature} of it seemed to be such as should naturally /entitle it to/ bespeak /call forth/ an emotion of sympathy /sympathetic anxiety/, in a bosom such as that Right Honorable and Official one, the declared feelings of which there has been such frequent occasion to bring to view.

In it may be seen "the legitimate rights of influence" acknowledge in all their plenitude: acknowledged by a pair of the " greatest characters" in the " highest situation", the virtuous and generous motives of friendship and affection summoned at least, if not called forth, into action: and all along from first to last without an atom to be seen of that "dry and sordid" matter, the bare idea of which is sufficient to bring the fire of indignation into Right Honorable eyes.

The dramatic form in which it is here presented, is really[?] the form in which it made its first appearance.