Dec r 1809 + '.1

Parl y Reform

Ch.6 Parl. Corruptor Member

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Ch.6. Corruption &c. its mischiefs in the case of a Member

I. The corruption habitual; Corruptor, the Crown.

'.1.2. Mischief to the state.

{' Corruption /The disorder/, and corrupt dependence and obsequiousness considered in its application to the situation of Members.

1. The effect on the state of the nation.}

Of the effect of the disorder on the state of the nation /national interest at large/ little need here be said. Over and over again the necessity has occurred of holding it up to view has presented itself. Misrule in all its shapes: to the separate interests not only of the King but of his agents, especially all such as have /having/ access to his royal person the interests of all the rest of the people made /offered up/ a continual sacrifice.

To reform in all its shapes - even to improvement in all its shapes, such few excepted in which the interest of the few /small population/ of whom the governing classes are composed take the lead, an [...?] door /bar/ opposed: upon each particular occasion whensoever it can be done without too much danger of disturbance to royal and aristocratical < > from popular /democratical/ discontent and glamour, the pecuniary interest {the power} the ease the reputation of the subject many sacrificed to the pecuniary interest, the power, the ease, the reputation and the vengeance of the domineering /ruling/ few.