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Rh public, to need a recapitulation here. The Habeas Corpus act was at this time ſuſpended, and the obſequious houſe of commons, to oblige the miniſtry, repealed the triennial bill, and ſtrange to tell! not only made all future parliaments ſeptennial, but alſo enacted, that they themſelves, who were choſen by their conſtituents for three years only, ſhould continue repreſentatives for ſeven.

ſpeech of a worthy member in oppoſition to this ſtep, is not undeſerving the attention of our readers.

obſerved, that the right of electing repreſentatives in parliament was inſeparably inherent in the people of Great Britain, and could never be thought to be deligated to the repreſentatives, unleſs they made the elected the elector, and at the ſame time ſuppoſed it the will of the people, that their repreſentatives ſhould have it in their power to deſtroy thoſe who made them, whenever a miniſtry ſhould think it neceſſary to ſcreen themſelves from their juſt reſentments; that this would be to deſtroy the fence of all their freedom; for if they had a right to continue themſelves one year, one month, or one day, beyond their triennial term, it will unavoidably follow, that they have it in their power to make themſelves perpetual. He further