8 Oct r 1809

Parl y Reform

B I Necessity

Ch. Occasional inadequate

§.1. Changes how produced

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Such being by supposition the effect, the cause by which and mode in which it has

been /was/ produced must have been near[?] about as follows—

For the ten years all but a few days—say for the ten years all but a month the King

having had in his dependence such a proportion of the members in ordinary attendance

as shall on each individual occasion have constituted a sufficiently great /abundant/

majority, all the measures that have been carried into effect within that time have

followed the determination /direction/ of his private /personal/ /single/ will. But

now within a month of the conclusion of the ten years symptoms of dissatisfaction on

the part of the people have grown to such an height that changes begin to take place

in the ordinary composition of the House of Commons

1. One set of /Some of the/ Members who under the general notion of supporting

government in whatsoever hands lodged had without having reaped /reaped or expected

to reap/ from the services of the functionaries in office any considerable advantage

been accustomed to take the opinion and will of the rulers for the time being for a

/as and for the/ provisional standard of rectitude, viz. for the sake of saving to

themselves respectively the trouble of applying their minds to each separate

business, observing the /a/ general dissatisfaction encrease, now apply their minds

to the subject, and regarding the members of the existing administration as unworthy

of their confidence, withdraw it accordingly, and commence the habit of voting on the

other side. Friends of government. John [...?]-men. Quietists.

Bell-weather-followers.