1818 Sept. 9

Appendix

Boroughmongers

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circumstances. In this state of things, that /if in /by/ the existence of/ the additional circumstance in question, to wit that in the property thus held in common there are some shares that are in the habit of being sold, and some others that might be capable of being sold, no considerable addition if any is made to the mischievousness of the system no change for the worse made but rather a change for the better made in it, still the main mischief remains to wit the existence of this sort of property itself: if a in the shape and with the effects of property the sort of power in question – a sort of power thus divided into shares did not exist, no such shares could be sold: in a word if there were no Borough-holders there could be no Borough-mongers: always remembered that it is in the holding of those Boroughs that is of the seats belonging to them that the real mischief consists: in the holding and not in the mongering of them: and that if, supposing it possible, the mongering could be done away /abolished/, the holding still continuing, the effect of such abolition would be rather to encrease the evil than to diminish it.