6 Jan y 1810

Parl y. Reform

Ch. 17 Mischief & disrepute

'.2. Mischievousness I. Member

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In both stations /In each of these situations/ the quantity of mischief producible by the corruption was considered in respect of three distinguishable parts: 1. that part by which the interest /welfare/ of the of the public at large is assisted, /prejudiced,/ exclusive /independently/ of any damage which may be considered as done to /sustained by/ the moral part of the mental frame /mind/ of the individuals concerned in the transaction. 2. that part which consists[?] in the damage done to /moral damage sustained by/ the mind of the individual to whom the matter of corruption is administered: 3. that part which consists in the damage done to /sustained by/ the mind of the individual, when there is one, by whom the matter of corruption is administered.

As to the mental damage or moral part of the mischief, in both stations viz. that of Member and that of Elector - and in each station in the instance of both parties (when there are two[)] by whom a part is borne in the corruption process, it has been shewn that either its very existence is precarious /indeterminable/ or at the utmost its amount is inconsiderable: so inconsiderable, that in comparison of the more public part of the mischief and for the purpose of the construction of the scale here in question, it may without considerable error be neglected.