But I fhall be told all this is true, but how amend it? I acknowledge it will take time, deliberation, and perseverance---but those three things will do it. Many difficulties will be started; the greatest I apprehend will be the property of the boroughs. Let us attack this difficulty then, and if we can get over the greateft, the leffer will yield before us. The market price, as I have heard, for a borough is 8,000l. Suppofe eightyfix boroughs to be bought. They would coft 688,000l. and I will be bold to fay it would be the best purchase the People ever made. It would bring in the principal and intereft in a feffion.

But it will be faid, it would be unjust to compel men to fell? I answer, that private gratification fhould always yield to public good; and as to its being unjuft, how can they complain of getting the value of what, conftitutionally speaking, they never had, nor never could

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have a right in; let not the Boroughmafters think fuch a measure hard: the Duke of Athol was obliged to fell the rights of the fovereignty of Man, because it was for the good of the empire.

If then this great difficulty can be got över, the fmaller ones are little to be feared-England is in purfuit of the fame object-Major Cartwright, Doctor Jebb, Mr. Sharp, and a great number of other worthy men, have written on this fubject, and in my opinion fhewn, that it is an object perfectly within our reach.

Let us begin then-but let us begin and end with temper :-Our prefent Parliament if not diffolved, muft foon die a natural death at the next election, let the people exert themselves-let them bring in, where they have the power,

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the best and wifeft men they can find let them bind them in a folemn promife, to vote for fhort Parliaments and equal representation-It will be for them afterwards, to see how this glorious measure can be effected-and I would leave the inftruction for the prefent, thus at large.

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not electors, would join in expreffing the fame wish, because they would also benefit by the event.—I have no doubt, but in these liberal days, every juft demand of the people will be acceded to-I have no doubt, but our gracious fovereign feels, that the true honor, dignity and fecurity of his crown, confifts in the purity of the conftitution-I have no doubt, but the Lords will fee, that their hereditary honors and fortunes will be better fecured, by their interference in, and ufurpation on the Commons being removed :-And I truft the people will know the happi

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nefs, of living under our glorious conítitution, too well, ever to wish an encroachment on the privileges of the Peers, or the juft prerogatives of the Crown.

If it were poffible, our legislature should be again deaf to the juft demand of an united people:-Let the Volunteers again come forward-let them again refolve"that they feek for their rights, and no more than their rights, and in fo juft a purfuit, would doubt the being of a Providence, if they doubted of fuccefs."

Compare this great object with a fpeculative renunciation, and a feeble bill of rights---compare it with attacking the juft prerogatives of the Crown, and leave fuch unfubftantial and unprofitable purfuits.

I will here indulge myfelf, and fuppofe every difficulty hath yielded to the temper

temper and firmness of the pcople, and to the wisdom and virtue of real Prtriotifm ;---I will fuppofe the conftitution in its full vigour, and the rights of the people fully restored.

Behold then the people fending men to Parliament, diftinguished for their understanding and knowledge and above all for their integrity; for without integrity, understanding and knowledge, would be the most dangerous qualification :---Behold fuch a House of Commons, fetting about the glorious work of making a people happy :---Behold them abolishing useless places, and arranging necessary ones :---Behold them encouraging manufactures, and promoting the knowledge of agriculture---Behold them making the laws plain and fimple, and bringing juftice home, even to the pooreft---Behold them making the public revenue and the expenditure keep pace, and rendering the collection of that revenue easy to the sub

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