_To describe an Independent Member upon a given indefinite line of
politics._
[Illustration: L]Let C R, or Conservative Reform, be the given indefinite
line--it is required to describe on C R an independent member.
[Illustration]
With the centre Reform, and at the distance of Conservatism, describe G B
and M--or Graham, Brougham, and Melbourne--the extremes of the Whig
Administration of 1834.
With the centre Conservatism, and at the distance of Reform, describe G B
and P--or Graham, Buckingham, and Peel--the extremes of the Tory
Administration of 1841.
From the point Graham, where the administrations cut one another, draw the
lines Graham and Reform, and Graham and Conservatism.
Then Graham and Conservative Reform is an independent member.
For because Reform was the centre of the Whig Administration, Graham,
Brougham, and Melbourne
Therefore Graham and Reform was the same as Reform with a shade
Conservatism.
And because Conservatism is the centre of the Tory Administration, Graham,
Buckingham, and Peel
Therefore Graham and Conservatism is the same as Conservatism with a shade
Reform