JB/087/114/003

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Indirect

Misrule

Parliament shut

True it also is that under t authority of the
House a sort of journal is published of its votes.
which every body may buy. But these votes are
the mere votes and nothing else without the shadow
of a reason.

True it also is that accounts of the debates
themselves are published pretty regularly in
the newspapers: and that the conductors of these
papers do some of them [find means pretty very frequently regular as it happens
to] gain admittance along with other strangers.
How fallacious are the accounts given by
these strolling itinerant regulars, these traders in party in
scandal, I need not undertake to say. But suppose
them as well inclined as with a very few
exceptions they are commonly ill inclined to be
correct, would they be allow'd to be so? Oh, by no
means: so sure as a man stranger attempts to committ
a syllable to writing so sure is he to be turned
out of the house.

It is pleasant after this to hear see a
member get up in the house and as you may do
any day and complain of misrepresentation, and
perhaps threaten talk of prosecution. The answer to all such
complaints is very simple. "Sir, if you have indeed
been misrepresented as you say you have, it
is

Identifier: | JB/087/114/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	114	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / / / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	27639
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