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HE following "Declaration of the People's natural Right to a Share in the Legislature" is founded on Principles, which are certainly unquestionable, and cannot easily be controverted; but I was not aware, I acknowledge, when I sent the same to the Press, that there had ever been any Controversy before the 6th of King George I. concerning the Freedom of our fellow-subjects in Ireland, or that any Englishman, acquainted with the principles of our excellent Constitution of State, had ever, before that time, presumed to advance any doctrine which might tend to deprive our Irish Brethren