26[?] Nov r 1809

Parl Reform Plan Ch.10 Art 10[?] Qualification of Electors

Remedy […?]

1. To prevent corruption Electors in each district should be numerous: hence

qualifications should be such as are possessed by a great number

2. The more numerous the less the sollicitude about establishing grounds of

disqualification. No matter if Jews[?], foreigners, lunatics or even convicts are

included

3. Avoidance of litigation is more material than the exclusion of a few persons who

if they were capable of constituting a majority would need to be disqualified.

4. On all these accounts payment to direct taxes recommends itself as far superior to

any other qualification: because the title may with so little trouble and expence be

placed[?] altogether out of dispute.

5. To this purpose and on this occasion neither probity nor intelligence are of

considerable import not probity because no trusteeship, intelligence not because the

choice will be limited to a very few candidates no one of whom if in any considerable

degree notoriously improper would be likely to offer himself to public scrutiny