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Excerpt from The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, of the Year 1832
These principles, as recognized in the former bill, consisted in the disfranchisement of decayed and inconsiderable boroughs, the en franchisement of large and opulent towns, and the introduction every where of a new electoral qualifi cation. To determine the boroughs which should be disfranchised, the former bill had taken the census of 1821, and had fixed on a certain amount of population, disfranchis ing all the boroughs whose popa lation did not reach that amount. Since then, a new census had been completed, which could not be thrown out of view, but which, at the same time, was liable to oh jections because, having been taken after a particular point of population had been fixed as that of disfranchisement, it was not im probable that pains had been taken to raise individual boroughs above the line ofxdisfranchisement. Mi nisters, therefore, had determined to take the number of houses, rather than that of inhabitants, it being less likely that improper practices would be adopted in re gard to the former than to the latter. When the census of 1821 was adopted, it was supposed that the difference of the limits between the different towns and the limits of the different boroughs would not14] annual register, 1832. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
