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1821. April 21.

But, in this instance- in the instance of tho most
influential of all the leading men- suppose the most apt
of all the candidates the object of his choice. Tho other
leading men, against whose influence he had thus prevailed,
would behold in the patron and his successful protegé
the authors of the disappointment which their ambition
had been experiencing. In the event contemplation of his removal, they
would agree upon some other candidate to be set up in
opposition to him. Any imperfection manifested in the
course of his demeanour in the execution of his office
would be looked out for, and, in the view of bringing about
his removal, made the most of. So far so much the better.
But, on their look out for these imperfections, their inquiry
would point itself not uniformly so that one by which the
greatest diminution detriment so they would be produced to the
greatest happiness of the greatest number, but to that
imperfection, whether real or only supposed, by the portrait portraiture
of which, howsoever exaggerated, his place, in the scale
of popular estimation, promised to be most lowered. In
this way, a less apt candidate will be made to succeed to a
more apt candidate by whom the preference had been obtained
in the first instance.

As, on this side, one party would find and interest,
and more or less of undue facility, in substituting to a more an apt
candidate, already in office, another not yet in office, so,
on the other side, the originally successful party under with its
leader, would find an interest, and more or less of undue
facility, in supporting and fixing in his situation a Candidate
not only comparatively, but absolutely unapt: a party candidate
by whose manifested want of aptitude even their own expectations
had been disappointed: in the removal downfall of his protegé
the patron leader would behold in the ease of a benefit received by
him as above, and that a defeasible one, the cessation of such benefit,-
and, at any rate, a diminution of his reputation and influence. The

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Date_1	1821-04-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	042	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	160	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e5
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	13083
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