23 Dec r 1809 + '.1

Parl y Reform

Ch.5. Both situations

'.1. Errors

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Those who profit by the corruption are determined not to prevent it, but ready to punish it in such manner as not to prevent it

Ch. 5. Of corruption &c {considered as incident to} /in/ both situations, viz. that of Member and that of Elector.

'.1. Radical errors respecting the treatment of /in the mode of treating/ the disorder.

If in this country there be any man in the country in whose opinion /to whom it appears/ it were better for the country that the King should not be absolute, or that if it were best /better/ /supposing it right/ that he should be absolute that it would be better he should be rendered so at a cheaper rate than by so expensive an engine as a corrupt parliament, or that, supposing the relation borne by the /an/ agents of the people to those /an agent/ of the King to that of Judges /a Judge/ to parties to be judged, it were wrong that /better those/ Judges should not be either themselves of the number of the parties or linked in interest with the parties - if in the country there be any such person it will probably appear to him that parliamentary corruption and its consequences parliamentary dependence and blind and habitual obsequiousness to the will of the King determined /governed/ /influenced/ as it can not but be by his /a/ separate and sinister interest can not but be pernicious.