1819 July 31

Defence &c Disfranchisement

2. Transference to populous towns

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Remains the /any/ plan, according to which the seats of the extinguished boroughs would be transferred /transference would be made/ to the as yet unrepresented populous towns. Of this, untill the qualification required, and thence the numbers and condition and numbers of the voters be /Electors are/ determined no very /sufficiently/ precise conception can be formed of it, nor therefore any sufficiently precise judgment pronounced in relation to it. What is more, so extreme it should seem is the improbability of its being adopted, that the time and space necessary for the /any full/ examination of it can scarcely hope for payment.

Inadequacy is an objection /a character/ which applies to it in equal degree with the other mode of transference. But be the measure what it will long as any real quantity of good be it ever so minute will be done by a measure, inadequacy can never form a valid ground of objection to it.

{If the effect of it be to seat in the House any one /though it were no more than a single/ Member whose interest and correspondent assistance are on the side of the universal interest, here is so much good.}

Supposing the effect of it to add, though it were no more than one, to the number of Members whose interest and corresponding /correspondent/ affections are in /on the side of/ unison with the universal interest, here will be so much gained /good/. But whether it does so may depend upon the qualification required, in addition to local circumstances: its usefulness will depend upon the qualification required, because ballot being supposed out of the question it will depend upon the proportion between those /the free/ votes that such votes as are free and such as are as are not so as are engaged by sinister influence

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