1818 Dec r. 30

Parl. Reform Bill

Dialogue

Preliminary View

Evils & Remedies

Evils

Miselection

Females

Reformist. I come down from them at a word.

You see what I have done to humour you. At one stroke, struck out so many millions

of votes: within a trifle as many as I have left in. Now then, in this as in other

cases, does not one good turn deserve another?

Anti-Reformist. What is it you would be at?

Reformist. I will tell you presently. /in a trice./ In comparison of what I have

granted what I ask /call for is a mere/ nothing, and in asking it I do but follow

your example. {What you insist upon is to exclude females from power in one shape:

what I want /ask/ is to exclude them from power in another. In your eyes they are

unfit from joining each of them /respectively/ in the exercise of the /a minute/

fraction of a small fraction of a fraction of coercive power. What I would propose is

to exclude them }

Power being the good thing in question, you exclude them from it by millions, all I

call upon you to do is to exclude from it a score or two.