266 on the constitution. Fune 2% 
delay ; the remainder, which may perhaps form twe 
or three fetters more, fhall follow soon *. . 
HINTS RESPECTING THE CONSTITUTION, 
BY ONE OF THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE. 
Lo the people of Great Britain. 
“FRrenps AND FELLOW CITIZENS, 
‘Tuat there are many things in our constitution of. 
government which require to ‘be amended, no person 
in his sound senses can deny ; it, therefore, follows, 
that those who oppose every kind of reform, how- 
ever moderately and-cautiously conducted, act an ir- 
rational part, and cannot be deemed the true friends 
of the peo ple. 
It is equally true, that, under the specious name of 
reform, innovations may be introduced that may dis- 
turb the peace of society, and destroy shat security 
of person and property, which it is the duty of every 
wise government to preserve. The real friends of 
the people, by cautiously avoiding both these ex- 
tremes, ought to steer a middle course, so as to pro~ 
* The Editor is very much obliged to this unknown correspondent for 
the good opinion he is pleased to entertain of his imtentions ; he hopes op 
to conduct himself as to continue to merit it. If the remainder of the lu- 
cubrations be written with the same moderation and conciliatory spirit, as 
the specimen here publifhed, they will be most readily inserted; but 
fhould they depart from the principles that the writer has so perspicuously 
jaid down ‘in his #etters and degenerate either into personal abuse, or 
party invective, he will not ba surprised if the Editor, in support of 
that character which he is emulous of deserving, fhould decline to inser¢ 
them. No difference in opinion, from what he himself may privately 
entertain, fhall occasion such exclusion, if the moral or political ten. 
dency of the doctrines inculcated do not to him appear pernicious. He begs 
the ingenious writer of this efsay will accept his best thanks sich the pre= 
oghnt very interesting communication. 
