[160-451v]

1821 Aug. 22

Codification Offer

'.8. Foreigner single /'.5. Draughtsman single/

Witness as to the hatred the whole tenor of certain Acts called Six Acts: witness in particular all those statutes and judgments by which for the cure /removal/ of hatred and contempt from the breasts of the subject many human suffering under the name of punishment is employed. Witness in and our of certain assemblies the whole conduct of one of the two ruling parties without any exception, and with small exception that of the other.

Witness the whole deportment and the whole discourse of that class /all that herd/ who either in act or in expectancy are partakers of the profit of the system of depredation and oppression so exercised

Witness, as to the hatred, the subject and the contempt all those Journals and other publications in which in speaking of the subject many dyslogistic appellations, such as vulgar, mob, popular, [...?] swinish multitude are employed: the disgust and the contempt having for their principal causes the /that/ inferiority in respect of physical cleanliness and apparel which is among the inseparable accompaniments of the habit [...?] of bodily labour, and the differences discernible between the one class and the other in respect of ordinary discourse With little or no danger of error the character of the Monarch the Lord or the Member may be read in the language of the Journalist who takes his side: for the Journalist would not take or at least would not keep to that language if it were displeasing to his customers: advice /intimation/ would be given to him to change his note, and he would change it. The patron in his situation can not speak /appear/ without a certain mask: of a particular construction this mask the dependant has not in his situation any need of: his appearance is accordingly made without any such incumbrance. In a word the dependant has more of the patron in him than the patron himself has: in him may be seen the patron without his mask.