26o Parliajnentary Proceedings. 0£t. 26. 



Upon the whole, this pamphlet dilcovers confiderable inge- 

 nuity in its author. He has contrived very effedlually to per- 

 plex a fubjedt that had been prefented to him in a plain and 

 intelligible point of view, which may render it very unintelligible 

 to thofe who look into this work for information, and may en- 

 gender a great many falfe notions that can only tend to be- 

 wilder the candid inquirer, and miflead the indolent legiflator. 



If the intention of the author was to convince the attentive 

 reader, that the prefent fyfliem of wool laws are not pernicious 

 to the country, he has failed in his aim; for he has not pro- 

 duced a fingie faft that tends to corroborate that opinion, nor 

 a fingie argmnent, if bold affertions are to be excluded, which, 

 if duly weighed, docS not militate againfl it. 



N. B. The author has taken fome very unwarrantable free- 

 doms with the character of Dr Andcrfon, of which he thinks 

 it beneath him to take any farther notice, tlian barely to ob- 

 ferve, that the facts he has ftated are before the public ; and 

 will be corroborated by others long after Mr Wanfey and him- 

 felf are both in tljelr graves. The little room that could be 

 fpared for this article, has been appropriated to the prod.udlion 

 of a very few other fads, illuflrative of the fame general princir 

 pies. 



Proceedings in Parliament. 



HOUSE OF COMMONS. 



Weftminfter Eleftion. 



^Though it is by kc means ozir intention in general to take notice of 

 petitions to the licufe of Commons complaining of undue eUBions, 

 yet the follo-iviilg petition is fo different from any that has e-ver 

 heretofore been prefented to the Hotfe of Commons, and it will 

 frir togii'e to flrangers fuch afmgular ■vieiu of the nature of 

 that liie'rty enjoyed by the fubjeSs of this country, that it may 

 vjell be entitled to rank as an exception to a "very general ritle.^ 

 Thurfday, December <). ly^o. 

 Mr martin delivered in the following petition. 

 <VTo the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain, in Par- 

 liament nfferabU'd : ' 

 The Petition of John Home Tooke, Efq; 

 " Sheweth, 

 " That your petitioner no'.v is, and at the time of the laJt 

 ekiVicn for Wtftminfter was, an eledtor for Weftminfter, and 



