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<head>1819 June 29</head> <!-- in pencil --> <p>To Erskine<lb/>(2)</p> <p><add>With reference to Elections or other public measures</add><lb/><!-- paragraph numbers in pencil --> 1. No set of men not deriving their situation, and thence the name<lb/><add>designation</add> of that situation from the great body <add>actual and free choice</add> of the people can <add>especially</add> possess during<lb/>any considerable length of time any well grounded claim to confidence<lb/>at the hands of the people, especially in preference to any set of men <del>actually <gap/></del> who do not then claim on the actual and <lb/>free choice of the people.</p> <p>2 In the case of the set of men, whosoever they may be<lb/><add>by or</add> for whom under the name of Whigs a preeminent share of confidence<lb/> at the hands of the people has been claimed, are on a<lb/> particular <add>specific</add> ground in a particular degree, destitute of any such<lb/>claim: that claim having in this instance for its ground, either<lb/> a <sic>vage</sic> <add> and uncharacteristic</add> strain of Eulogy, applicable with equal facility<lb/>and propriety to any one set of men as to any other, or else<lb/>the possession of <del>certain advantages</del> <add>pre-eminence of</add> in respect of a certain<lb/>et of individuals none of them coming under any <add>the head</add> of the<lb/>heads <add>branches</add> of appropriate aptitude, to act appropriate probity, appropriate<lb/>intellectual aptitude, appropriate active talent. [ these<lb/>advantages are 1. preeminent opulence of <add>in</add> their own <gap/> <add>in all shapes:</add><lb/>2. preeminent opulence in their own hands in the shape of <gap/><lb/>of hand: 3 pre-eminence in the scale <add>or article</add> of power <del>derived</del> conferred<lb/>on them by the personal will and pleasure of the Monarch.<lb/>4 pre-eminence in the scale of factitious dignity conferred on them by the<lb/>personal will and pleasure of the Monarch: <!-- bracket in pencil --> [ factitious dignity by <lb/> <add>means</add><lb/><!-- continues in margin --> <note>means of which, under<lb/> favour of <add>early favoured</add> invitation<lb/> <add>and <gap/> association</add><lb/>delusion, respect is<lb/> obtained at the hands<lb?> of the people on no better<lb/> ground than those on<lb/> which money is obtained<lb/> by <gap/>]</note></p> | |||
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 especially possess 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 not then 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 pre-eminence of in respect of a certain
et 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 in all shapes:
2. preeminent opulence in their own hands in the shape of
of hand: 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 association
delusion, respect is
obtained at the hands<lb?> of the people on no better
ground than those on
which money is obtained
by ]
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parliamentary reform |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]] |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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