a 3® on parliamentary reform. -^ug. zt* 



old principle, go as well as one oa the newest and 

 best, he replied, " that, Sir, is owing to one error 

 counteracting and correcting another, which some- 

 times happens from a certain accidental combina- 

 tion." Now Mr Editor, I do not give a farthing, 

 if either my watch, which serves me well, or the con- 

 stitution under which I enjoy protection, liberty, and 

 happinefs, can be demonstrated by your soi disant phi- 

 losophers to be the composition of light or darknefs ; 

 and if I had my will they fhoaid not put a finger in- 

 to either of them. 



I could still wifti, if I do not take up too much 

 of your volume, to hazard a couple more simple re- 

 marks, of u man who has no pretensions to politi- 

 cal philosophy, or to tinker the constitution of 

 Great Britain. These I mean to make on the only 

 plausible reasons for reform that I have met with 

 in the speeches of the present opposition ; for I have 

 forgot the ingenuity of the former, w/ss, certain old 

 decayed boroughs which still pofsefs, ancf certain 

 new manufacturing towns, who still are with- 

 out, the privilege of choosing members of parlia- 

 ment. 



istf I humbly offer an opinion which I am affraid 

 will be looked upon as high treason against modern 

 doctrines, that it is by a play on the word repre- 

 sentation, and giving it a local application, very 

 different from the intention of our ancestors when 

 they framed our constitution, that the pafsions and 

 interests of men have been stirred up in this contro- 

 versy ; for £hall I acknowledge that I think from all 

 toy reading, that they first calculated the number 



