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knowledge, and we elected you 

 without your interference. We 

 were confident you would perform 

 the duties of a representative in 

 parliament with ability and fidelity. 

 In every respect, you have not 

 onlyfulfilled but exceeded our ex- 

 pectation. We derive the utmost 

 satisfaction from having pointed 

 out to the nation the way to be 

 fairly represented. Haditbeenpos- 

 sible that our example could have 

 been followed, and a proper repre- 

 sentation thereby produced, the 

 scenes we have lately witnessed 

 would not have disgraced our 

 country. 



" We understood the nobleness 

 of your mind, and were confident 

 that you w'ould not descend to bar- 

 ter your trust for a place under 

 government, nor be the partisan 

 or leader of those who support or 

 reject measures, just as they hap- 

 pen to be proposed on this or on 

 that side of the house. 



" We feel the indignity that has 

 been offered to you ; but we are 

 not surprised to find, when every 

 excuse is made for public delin- 

 quents, that the utmost rigour is 

 exercised against him who pleads 

 for the ancient and constitutional 

 rights of the people. 



*' You nobly stepped forward in 

 defence of a fellow-subject un- 

 justly imprisoned ; and you ques- 

 tioned, with great ability and 

 knowledge of the laws, the war- 

 rant issued upon that occasion. 

 The House of Commons have an- 

 swered your argument by break- 

 ing into your house with a mili- 

 tary force, seizing your person, 

 and conveying you by a large 

 body of troops to the Tower. 



" Your distinction between pri- 

 vilege and power remains unaltered 

 — the privileges of the House of 

 Commons are for the protection. 



not for the destruction, of the 

 people. 



" We have resolved to remon- 

 strate with the House of Com- 

 mons on the outrages committed 

 under their order, and to call 

 upon them to restore you to your 

 seat in parliament, which the pre- 

 sent state of the country renders 

 more than ever necessary for the 

 furtherance of your and our ob- 

 ject — a reform of the represen- 

 tation in that house. 



" While so many members are 

 collected together by means 

 ' which it is not necessary for us 

 to describe,' we cannot but enter- 

 tain the greatest apprehensions 

 for the remainder of our liberties ; 

 and the employment of a military 

 force against one of their own 

 body, is but a sad presage of 

 what may be expected by those 

 who, like you, have the courage 

 to stand forward in defence of the 

 rights of the people. 



" When we reflect on your gene- 

 rous exertions to destroy the hor- 

 rors of secret and solitary confine- 

 ment — to mitigate the severity of 

 punishment in the army — to pre- 

 vent the cashiering of its officers, 

 withoutcause assigned — to restore, 

 for the comfort of the worn-out 

 soldier, the public property con- 

 veyed by a job toan individual — to 

 prevent the extension of the bar- 

 rack system, the obvious eft'ect of 

 which is, to separate the soldier 

 from thecitizen — to prevent the in- 

 troduction of foreign troops — to 

 bring to light an atrocious act of 

 tyranny, by which a British sailor 

 was left to perish on a barren rock 

 —and, above all, your unremitted 

 exertions to obtain a full, fair, and 

 free representation of the people in 

 p:irliament — when we reflect on the 

 firmness, the unshaken constancy 

 which you have invariably shown 



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