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disfranchise every spat in tne island; nay such is 

 the uncertainty on which this new philosophical 

 principle hinge=, that a decayed and despojled bo- 

 rough, has only to discover a coal niline in its neigh- 

 bourhood, (the gold ore of Britain,) and new manu- 

 factures will spring up, to repopulate the half de- 

 serted borough, when a future opposition may pos- 

 sibly demand of the minister of the day, new pri- 

 vileges for a hard used opprefsed town, which one 

 of his predecefsors in office had disfranchised to 

 serve some vile ministerial purpose ; probably tb court 

 the support of some powerful proprietors of the 

 upstart boroughs *. 



Such, Mr Editor, are the sentiments of a man 

 who left Britain with a sincere attachment to its 

 happy constrtution, who has neither heard of nor seen 

 any thing like it since, and who never expects to 

 live under its equal in any other part of the world ; 

 whilst he has as yet met with nothing in all the 

 florid display of nexu lighti, to lefsen his respect 

 for what was once universally acknowledged to be 

 the glory of a Briton, and which still remains so of 



* This argument deserves to be particularly attended to, as it 

 haj not, I think, been adverted to by either of the parties who have 

 come forward in this case. Let any one recollect what endlefs cause 

 this woald give for cavils and sophistical arguments, and political 

 cabals, and he will easily perceive, that the legislative counciA would 

 have little time for any discufsion, except to correct the perpetual in- 

 justice, real or imagined, that would arise from this ;source. Admit 

 as a principle that any one circumstance, be it what it will, is to give 

 an invariable right of representation, and there can be no end of sq^uab- 

 bles and disputation about it. This is the reason why the land tax 

 has remained so long unaltered ; and a good reason too. Edit, 



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