1819 July 6

Defence of | | ag st Edinb gh Review

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That which Horne Tooke did not say, or did not choose to seem to say, is not the less true is – that when by correspondent payment made the burthen in question is borne, there remains to the man of property /proprietor/ a benefit in which the man of no property /non-proprietor/ has no share. But in this case by the supposition there is a benefit to be disposed of: a benefit, namely the portion of power in question. This being understood to whom according to the maxim invented by Horne Tooke should the grant of this benefit be granted? /made?/ to the non-proprietor uncontrovertibly: for as to the proprietor he has his benefit, and that a much more sensible one in another shape: and this a benefit in which the non-proprietor has no share.