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    householders . Few persons , even of those most interested , examined ' minutely into its details : some of those who did , and foresaw what would happen , were afraid of hazarding the measure , pefrhaps any measure , by the exposure . The franchise on a 10 $ . k yedr house Wats broadly stated as its principle and oh this ^ the Ibng parliamentary disctissions fchiefly turned . What * then , Wats the astonishment and irritation of multitudes itfhfen they found

    that , because they had not paid their rates , ( whifch ih fliany cases had nbt been applied for in the usual manner ) , or because they fc > aid rates through their landlord in the form df additional rent , ne contracting ivith the parish ; or , because th&y had i * emdred Within the twelvemonth : or because their namfes werfc wrongly

    ' sjfeH In the collector ' s book ; or for some other such reason , they # fere struck off the roll of citizenship , and sent back , by the Bill tof theif * idolatry , id the place from whence they camel Is not this eriough to irritate tjedple ,, especially when they must lose

    'tihie from their own concerns , and see barristers paid fihdrri the public purse , just to accomplish their excision with due formality P The wHtetf iii the Edinburgh Review selects Edinburgh as a specimen for the purpose of his argument , He cdritends that the 1-fefsult shdws how well the Bill works . And what is his Own

    account of the matter ? Why , that in a population df 140 , 000 , ¦* between 0 OOO and 7000 will have votes / Now , the nttrtiber of Bouses in Edinburgh rated at 101 . and Upwards , is 9382 . Here , fchfeh , are about 3000 qualifications lost : arid this , be it observed , 1 k not an ficfcidental or voluntary non-usatge of the right , such is cotitinually 43 fcctfrs eVen at warrnly-contested elections , but it is the absdlilte pf-ivation dt the right . A small deduction rhtist fbir fe

    ve tndd ^ rhale hdu seholders ; but With this exception , the tiUiriBer disappointed is nearly half as numerous as that which is j ^ ratififed . A third of the self-supposed constituency is subjected tb an anticipatory disfrdhchisetnerit . Will they not grumble , feveh though Lord Chancellors and Lord Advocates tell them to tfe grateful ? There are probably few large towns ih which the ' proportion of disqualified expectants is not quite as large , or

    larger , than in the case chosen by this writer . At Leeds , we see that 2550 are disqualified out of 6700 ; at Liverpool , between 4000 and 5000 out of 14 , 000 ; at Manchester , 5913 out of 12 , 700 , or nearly one half . In some of the metropolitan bcrdughs

    % hb proportion is yet larger ; and here the suffrage wafc peculiarly kn object df defeire . The Tower Hamlets have 23 , 000 quttlif y irig ten ^ teent ^ and onl y 11 ^ 000 qualified inhabitants df theni . The iiofi-pdhterits have it . In ihe counties thk working of the Bill Is still iWltse . J Mkny of the did freehdlders , hktu ^ any Enough , supposed tfiat theit- previx 3 uis irijgllt femainfed Untouched : they fitid thenis ^ lves 'fikfraftchi ^^ d tit non-ttgistratltin : The objection s ^ steiti hak ) b ^ h parried on to a most vexatious extent ; and very rfiflfeltJhi hatfe Wferi the decisions of the barristers rn different counts . lit sdme

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    842 Whig 0 & 6 ernment .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 842, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/50/