1818 Dec 5

Parl Reform Bill

 1819 Sept 3. Postpone Marginal[?] contracting[?] till Bill is finished

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J.B. as[?] Brougham

'. or Note. Ridicule cast by Brougham on J.B.'s Parl. Reform Resolution as moved by Burdett June 1818.

Note. On the of 1818 in the shape /character/ of a preparative to a proposed Bill containing a /such as the present/ plan of Parliamentary Reform, Sir Francis Burdett, moved in the House of Commons a string of resolutions. Of these Resolutions the object was to shew that by the several Monarchs of this nation, the good /happiness/ of the whole body of the people - and that in preference to their own had been recognized - recognized in rational[?] form as the only legitimate /justifiable/ end of government - and professed and declared to be the only end which they in the government exercised by them ever had in view, and that a system of free and frequently recurring Election of their Representatives in the Common House - an Election performed on the principle of virtually universal suffrage had moreover been recognized by them as the means and only means conducive to that end. In the character of a preparative to a proposed Bill such as the present, those Resolutions as in that Assembly was understood and even declared had been drawn by the author of the present writing[?] /draught/.

By another Honourable Gentleman /Member/, Mr /Lord/ Brougham who stood up next after the Honourable Baronet, the Resolutions were represented as just /proper/ objects of just scorn and derision, {and the production of them was at the same time ascribed to a want of knowledge of the world on the part of the individual by whom they had been penned.