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16 April 1817

Plan Cat

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Introd

§.10. Moderate Reform

II. Uselessness

III Representatives

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To this part of the plan of moderate reform of a moderate reform it can with propriety be said to belong the following observations present themselves

1. That to the case of corruption-eaters actually feeding the application of it is but partial; leaving the disorder to an indefinite extent without remedy.

2. That by leaving untracked it confirms and establishes that principle which in a preceding Section has been shewn to be in a state of irreconciliable opposition to probity and justice and common sense.

3. That to the case of such corruptionists as are as yet but corruption hunters it has no immediate application: at the same time that to this same case is /will/ any adequate remedy applied /so formed/ by either of the two remaining heads of proposed arrangement as above mentioned.

No application has it to the case of any one of the following classes of corruption-hunters, viz

1. Peerage-hunters

2. Baronetage-hunters

3. Ribbon-hunters

4 Corruption hunters in whose instance the object of choice is either money /pecuniary profit/ in the shape of office, pecuniary profit in any other of the infinitely miscellaneous various shapes in which from the source in question pecuniary profit may be derived: d o in whose instance in that shape or any of the /those/ three other shapes profit may be derived to and to the immediate benefit of relations, friends and dependants.

Note (a)

(a) Seats to which it has no application, besides those designated by the name /description/ of seats filled by persons in responsible situations as

1 Officers in the Land branch of the Military service

2 Officers in the Sea branch of the Military service

3 Official persons belonging to the department of the Law, perhaps: - but this remains to be explained.