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for the city ; and in his Brevia Parliamenti there is, I 

 am told, the fiillest account of the state of the question 

 which from time to time agitates this city respecting 

 the body in whom resides the high privilege of re- 

 turning the citizens to Parliament, and the most 

 complete demonstration of the right of those who 

 have so long exercised it. 



If Prynne leaned too much to the republican part 

 of our constitution, we have Carte, the great his- 

 torical advocate of the rights of the monarch. Carte 

 was the lecturer at the Abbey. He wrote his History 

 while residing here, and he became engaged, in con- 

 sequence of it, in an historical controversy with 

 Chandler, another resident of Bath, the father of 

 Chandler before mentioned, respecting the Irish mas- 

 sacre. Carte is supposed to have been principally 

 concerned in that little ebullition of feeHng in favour 

 of the exiled family which manifested itself at Bath 

 in 1715. 



As if the Muse of History could never make her 

 appearance here Avithout the ensigns of party, we have 

 next to speak of Mrs. Catherine Macauley. This 

 lady resided for many years at the house in Alfred- 

 street where there is still to be seen the bust of King 

 Alfred over the door, domesticated with her friend 

 Dr. Wilson, son to the truly amiable and excellent 

 Bishop of Sodor and Man. Here she prosecuted her 



