1 June 1819

Disfranchising

Disfranchising

§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members

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§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members.

30.

In Commons House by Romilly fairly put to them will you continue to support one

another in this swindling.

Answer yes – Discovery made that he was an Utopian Atheist, Jacobin Enemy to English

Constitution.

Propose any thus in favour of Romilly this is the answer made.

Such the fallacies by which every thing lessening the sacrifice of universal to

sinister interest is sure to be opposed.

31.

So long as this abomination continues, propensity to swindling will be the

characteristic of the Lord and Country Gentleman.

32.

The individual unknown, these are the last in whom a man of common prudence would

repose any pecuniary trust.

Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members.

33.

With these dealings with the subject many compare their dealings with one another:

preference given to gaming debts: debts by which the unfeeling rapacity of both

parties is proved.

These alone debts of honour: unforced by a schism created by this class in the force

of the popular sanction: this posterior mode is not in opposition to the other, and

to the universal interest.

34.

Distinctive character of these debts: they are produced by a contrast noxious to all

interests: to d o. of both contracting parties and their

connection: one party suffer more than the other gains and enjoys: such suffering on

the part of the lenders[?] a sure result, and as towards the | | instead of sympathy

antipathy the result of the power of disappointment.

35.

Better not be paid at all: innoxious and beneficial god that contracts be kept:

pernicious, good they sh d. be broken: generally broken they would

not afterwards be made.

§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members.

36.

Anti reformist. Natural this preference –

Reformist, yes. Vice is in all shapes natural: natural to

sacrifice the interest of the monied interest of life: to self interest all others.

In this situation particularly to such sacrifice has man a natural propensity.

Natural is it beneficial? No: but Pernicious: in that same proportion it calls for

restraint at all hands. hands of Government; hands by which the hands of Government

are | | in so far as government has the happiness of the whole for its end.

37.

Yes. Natural it is that in those orders in which by | | operating on the model of | |

on empley[?] heads and callous hearts man is peculiarly exposed to vice in this form:

natural that such a tacit compact should have place.