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Excerpt from The Plan of Reform: Proposed by Sir Francis Burdett, Correctly Reported in Two Speeches; Delivered in Parliament, Recommending an Inquiry Into the State of the Representation
I am, Mr. Speaker, and ever have been, readv to avow mv Opinions upon all public subjects, and I do presume my convie tion of the absolute necessuy of a reform in the constitution is very well ascertained. \vere I then to subscribe to the pre sent measure, as constituting any essential part of the reform which I feel to be necessary, I should then be guilty of not only having aggravated the evil, but of having added injury to insult, in the disappointment such a course of conduct would give to the fair hopes of the countrv. I speak thus, because I am convinced that such an atfeetatton of reform would not satisfy that enlightened portion of the British people to whose judgement and whose discrimination, whatever the Gentlemen who meet here may say to the contrary, I am and ever shall be most desirous to give credit and attention. All that has been or is demanded are the rights of the Constitution. Upon that Constitution individuals will speak according to the particular bias of their Opinions and their objects. (lifter! Hem from the Illinisterial Bette/test.) Those Gentlemen ulto so loudly Cheer, perhaps, suppose me to have been caught in some trap.
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