1819 Sept. 22

Parl Reform Bill

Reasons ult o

§.2 Electors Who

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On the contrary, independently of usage and the associations attachments and expectations produced by it it is manifest beyond dispute that of the office of Monarch with the power belonging to it not only the tendency but the sure effect is to be detrimental to the universal interest – to diminish the net amount of the universal happiness.

For from the very nature of man, it follows that the Monarch, who ever he is will at all times prefer his own personal interest according to his own conception of it to the interest of all his subjects put together whoever they are, that therefore on whatever occasion and in so far as between his interest and theirs any opposition /contrariety/ and incompatibility has place, it is their interests that he will sacrifice to his, not his to theirs: and there is scarce any occasion on which such contrariety and incompatibility have not place.

As of /As[?] in/ every other situation, so it that of Monarch it is a man’s /his/ interest to have as much /large a portion/ as he can of the good things of this world whatever they are. It is in the power of the Monarch to have a much larger share of them than is or can be possessed by any other member of the community: and the greater the share he has, the less is the share left for all the other members of the community put together

As it is in this respect with the Monarch so is it and for the same reason with the Members of the House of Lords.