5 Feb y 1817

Plan Cat. Introd. Rudiments

Introd.

1

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Date of this 1809 – rejected by Times –

2

Till now kept back with others papers by despair of use

3

Long had the necessity and undangerousness of radical reform been apparent.

4

Road[?] to ruin surveyed and afterwards delineated by J.B. as visible in the

principle and economy laid down by Burke and Ken

{ II. Ruin[?]

5

Advantages real & apparent

1 Short of the matter as to demand for Reform – By general acknowledgement, scale[?]

of the advantage possessed by British over other Monarchies, the democratical past:

no other past can be found – }

{ 6

Advantages real and apparent.

Advantage thus possessed is part real, part but apparent. }

Inserendum?

7

English Liberties

Real point, what the point comprised of, what are conveniently /-mmonly/ called English Liberties, viz. possessed de facto to a considerable degree but all precarious.

8

Sinister Sacrifice

{ 2 Imaginary part of the advantage – security against the constant sacrifice made in

every other shape of the universal interest to the partial and associated d o of Monarchy & Aristocracy. }

{ 9

Adverse Interests

Monarchial interest the Tories: Aristocratical, the Whigs.

10

Adverse Interests

In all their differences, without need of consent they have agreed in this viz. that

the aggregate wealth of the people is a fund, out of which to the greatest amount

possible, wealth is to be extracted[?] for selves and

retainers’ fortunes to be made

11.

Adverse Interests

In the instance of Burke, the mouthpiece of the Whigs, this proved already. Soon it

will be in d o of Rose: mouthpiece of Pitt’s Tories. }

12

Adverse Interests

J.B., attentive to the interior[?] of office &c

13

Peculation sources immediate

1 Immediate source of these fortunes –

1. Sources of sudden enrichment, temporary and casual, - contracts.

2 Needless places –

3 Useless d o. –

4 Overpaid d o –

5 Sinecures –

14

Peculation Sources remote

{ Less immediate sources (the immediate not being creatable without pretence) more

copious[?] financial drains[?], viz.

1 Unnecessary wars.

2 Burthensome distant dependencies 3 Arrangements for keeping foreign power dependent

by subsidies –

4 d o by terror

5. Usurpation of dominion over the common highway of nations.

6. Expence for splendor of the crown i.e. excessive personal expence of Monarch

& his retainers i.e. for satiation of appetites Mentally insatiable. }

15

Corruption matter of

Means by which the real advantages are circumscribed within

such narrow hints: matter of corruptive influence possessed by the monarch, and so

situated as to command with irresistible force the conduct of the Members of the

democratical part of the sovereign power –

16

Corruption matter of

Elements of the matter what

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Corruption matter of

Corruptive influence its omnipotence. Without need or risk of special offer[?], by

the mere existence of the matter of corruption /good/ in such and such shapes,

obtainable on the conditions in question now not otherwise, all the effect aimed at

by bribery is produced on the other members of the sovereignty, in a number

sufficient for the perpetuation of the sacrifice.

Members classed.

6 Feb y 1817. Ordinances[?] proposed

I. State and cause of the Mischief.

II. Nature of the proposed remedy.

III. Objection to the remedy.

1. Anarchy. 2. Democracy.

§.1. English Advantages existing and nonexisting

5. 6. 7.

II. English Liberties. 7.

III. Sinister Sacrifice. 8. 18.

IV. Adverse Interests. 9, 10, 11, 12.

V. Peculation Sources immediate and remote 13. 14.

VI. Corruption – matter of. 15. 16. 17. 59.

VII. Members classed. 19. 20. 21. 37. 38. 39

VIII. Terrorists. 21. 22 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28

IX. Property 30, 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

X. Idlers. alias truants or Absentees

36. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48 49. 50. 51. 52. 53 54. 55. 56.

Remedy. Dependence and Independence

57. 58. 60.

Mended[?] in its[?] Journals that 154 individuals return a majority of the Members

Elected […?] Reform[?] Monday 7 Feb. in Morn g Chron 10 Feb

1817.