11 Sep. 1809

Parl y Reform

B.II. Influence &c

Ch.1. Generalities

'. Influence allowable?

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Dependence, the real and immediate mischief, corruption, not mischievous but through that.

When /Of/ A person (Obsequius) who finds himself placed in a situation in which his will is habitually exposed to influence exercised on it by the will of another person B (Patronus) is said to be dependent on him: relation being had to Patronus, the situation of Obsequius is termed a situation of dependence.

By the mere[?] act /fact/ of having received an object of desire say a sum of money however recently, if without expectation of any ulterior sum from the same source, no dependence is created.

By actual bribery therefore, no dependence is created

By the expectation of a bribe indeed dependence may be created.

But, as already shewn by the mere expectation of a bribe in the shape of a given sum, say ,500, viz. to be once paid, and not oftener, whatever dependence is /may be/ created can not be equal to the dependence which would be produced by an equally strong expectation of being made to lose /part with/ a sum to the same amount.

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Parl y Reform

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(a)  Quere whether to add the words dependence and independence to the first sentence, or afterwards?

'. Of dependence considered as the effect /result/ of influence.

The stronghold of the advocates of the system of corruption and dependence lies in the /in a single word - the/ word influence - in the vast extent <...> its import and thence in the two distinct and widely <...>ent[?] sences /purposes/ in which it is alike capable of being in-<...>.

Influence of will on will - influence of under<...>ng on understanding - note well the distinction between these two species of influence - or rather between these two different occasions on which and purposes for which the term influence is employed and the spell of delusion is dissolved.

It is only on the occasion on which the idea /object/ presented by the word influence, is that of the influence exercised by will over will, that either corruption or dependence or corruption have really any place, corruption the cause, dependence the effect. {In this case and in this rule[?] are the two terms influence and corruption virtually synonymous:} in this case and this only can the epithet corrupt with truth and purposity[?] be attached /annexed/ to the term influence: in this case and in this only can dependence be said to be the fruit and result and fruit of the influence exercised /1.[?]/: corruptor the person /party/ by whom the influence is exercised: corrupted and dependent, by being corrupted brought into and kept in a state of dependence the party on and over whom the influence is exercised.