1819 May 26 +

Disfranchise

Disfranchising

§.6. 5. Producing misplaced confidence

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§.6. 5. Evil effect the fifth – Producing ungrounded /groundless/ confidence: belief contrary to all reason and experience of a design to effect reform, where no such design, but the contrary has place.

By many of those who /by whom/ on the occasion of the still depending measures, this plan of gradual disfranchisement and concomitant extension of suffrage, has been supported, our object has been declared, and that it should aim[?] if not as the sole, at any rate as the most important one: namely the raising the reputation of Parliament. +

Reformist. Raising the reputation of Parliament? How? by what means? by causing what wishes and designs to be attributed to it?

Anti-Reformist. Answer. By causing to be attributed the wish to see the defects /whatsoever defects /imperfections/ there may be in the existing state of the Representation receive an appropriate and efficient remedy: a wish to this effect, and a correspondent design to take such measures as shall be conducive to the accomplishment of this patriotic wish /patriot/

Reformist In a former work I have /it has been/ shewn that in the situation of the powers /persons/ in question – Monarch – House of Commons House of Lords and Monarch – the entertaining any such wish, in any other circumstances than those /that/ of a troublesome /an annoying and alarming/ pressure from without, is not in human nature.

This being uncontrovertible, no anti-reformist has ventured any such attempt as that of controverting it: the only recourse silence has been the recourse resorted to

It would be to act in contrariety to interest – to predominant and manifest and self-understood particular interest: a course of action of which no governing body has ever been or ever will be seen to exemplify in its own conduct and reaction.

[marginal insertion:] even in the case of Ireland A o 1780

+ ☞ Copy here from the Debate the dicta as to this subject.