5 Jan y 1810

Parl y. Reform

Plan

Ch. Aol Qualification

'.3 Pecuniary proper?

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3

By the Frenchman in the Jest-book story, punch the English liquor is defined the liquor of contradictions: brandy to make it strong, water to make it weak: lemon to make it sower, sugar to make it sweet.

In the case of this English liquor the inconsistency /inconformity/ is but apparent and superficial: for when with reference to the palate of him who is to drink it, which is what is always in his power, the ingredients /elements/ are put together in due proportions, nothing of inconsistency is perceived in it.

To the English system of parliamentary qualifications it were well if as in the case of the English liquor the inconsistency lay no deeper than the surface.

On the part of the agents of the people {[...?]} /Presuming qualifications/ {required to secure /as a security for their/ probity, and} to {render} /make/ them independent of the King; [...?] to {render} /make/ them dependent:

Purchase of seats forbidden, in order to let in men of talent; pecuniary qualifications {executed,} /rendered indispensable,/ in order to keep them out.