1818 Sept. 7.

Parl. Reform Bill

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As it is, the measures that are at command are comparatively feeble an inefficient of comparatively precarious efficacy, and the more precarious their efficacy, the more anxious the case and the more strenuous and unremitted the industry with which they require to be, and naturally are employed and made the most of. These are /Of these the principal seem to be as follow/.

1. To cause it to be understood that the excellence of the scheme of government in Church and State as at present pursued - its excellence in every point whatever without exception is a matter of fact which on every occasion ought to be taken for granted: and that each man's prospect of advancement and success in whatever line of life he betakes /engages/ himself, of /among/ those to which this system of education leads, depends upon the punctuality of his observance of this rule.

2. To embrace every occasion foe covering the whole system with a mantle /cover/ of the most gorgeous and undiscriminating praise.

3. To embrace every occasion for overwhelming with a correspondent covering[?] of reproach /opprobrium/ and obloquy and reproach not only every man by whom imperfection in any shape if objected /imputed/ to it, but every man by whom the necessity propriety or even lawfulness of impartial enquiry into the subject is asserted.