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f THE BEE, 



OR 



lirERARY JVEEKLT INTElLIGENCERy 



FOR 



WtDMEtDAY, February 21. 179a. 



MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS 



ON THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN, 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



Dutch prowefs,T)im(li wit, and F>Iti(h policyj 



Great nothing ! mainly tend to thee. Rochester. 



Sir, 

 A HE people of Scotland are, ron all occasions, foolifli 

 enough to interest themselves in the good fortune 

 of an Englifli minister ; though it does not appear 

 that we have more influence with such a minister 

 than with the cabinet of Japan. To England we 

 were for many centuries a hostile, and we are still 

 considered by them as a foreign, and in effect a con- 

 q\ier€d nation. It is true, that we elect very near % 

 twelfth part of the Britifti House of Commons \ but 

 our representatives have no title to vote, or act in a 

 separate body. Every statute proceeds upon the 

 majority of the voices of the whole compound afsem- « 

 bly : What, therefore, can forty-five persons accom ' 

 plifli, when opposed to five hundred and thirteen? 

 voi„ vri. L L t 



