JB/137/020/001

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1819 June 29

To Erskine
(2)

With reference to Elections or other public measures
1. No set of men not deriving their situation, and thence the name
designation of that situation from the great body actual and free choice of the people can possess especially during
any considerable length of time any well grounded claim to confidence
at the hands of the people, especially in preference to any set of
men actually who do rest their claim on the actual and
free choice of the people.

2 In the case of the set of men, whosoever they may be,
by or for whom under the name of Whigs a preeminent share of confidence
at the hands of the people has been claimed, are on a
particular specific ground in a particular degree, destitute of any such
claim: that claim having in this instance for its ground, either
a vage and uncharacteristic strain of Eulogy, applicable with equal facility
and propriety to any one set of men as to any other, or else
the possession of certain advantages preeminence of in respect of a certain
set of individuals none of them coming under any the head of the
heads branches of appropriate aptitude, to act appropriate probity, appropriate
intellectual aptitude, appropriate active talent. [These
advantages are 1. preeminent opulence of in their own hands in all shapes:
2. preeminent opulence in their own hands in the shape of rent
of land: 3 pre-eminence in the scale or article of power derived conferred
on them by the personal will and pleasure of the Monarch.
4 pre-eminence in the scale of factitious dignity conferred on them by the
personal will and pleasure of the Monarch: [factitious dignity, by
means
means of which, under
favour of early favoured invitation
and delusive association
delusion, respect is
obtained at the hands
of the people on no better
ground than those on
which money is obtained
by ]

Lett 7 Whigs Anti Reformists
§5. Posit Why Excellence

or 2
1. By no set of men
not elected by the
people can any claim
to their confidence
be possessed, equal
to that of a set who
are so elected

or 3
2. Of the so-stated
Whigs by and for
whose preeminent
confidence is claimed
the claim is specially
ungrounded: the alleged
ground is
1. Vage eulogy applicable
to one set of men as
well as another: or
2. Possession of inducements
no one of which
comes under any
branch of appropriate
aptitude: viz: pre-eminence
by 1. Opulence
2 landed opulence 3
power 4. factitious
dignity: 5 delusion
from the possession of
the above, some or all.

Identifier: | JB/137/020/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-06-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 2 - or 3
Box	137	Main Headings	parliamentary reform
Folio number	020	Info in main headings field	to erskine
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	46737
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