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( 20 ) honour. The peaceable expression of he national will through its legal, and constitutional organ, has been provided for by a reform of the House of Commons, on broad, liberal and impartial principles. If you still have any complaints to make, lay them before your representatives; who will attend to them, investigate them, and satisfy them, if they be reasonable. What then remains, but that, by a quiet and orderly demeanour, you should shew yourselves worthy of the blessings you enjoy; and by supporting the laws, which equally protect the life, liberty, industry and property of all, vindicate your character from the stain of being associated in a league of plunder, riot, and every foul crime.—Could they, sustained by such arguments, and with such claims on the public gratitude, find any difficulty in restoring tranquillity? Their exertions would be aided by every honest man in the community: They would have none to Encounter but the moll: vile and profligate.

Every man who complains of the overbearing influence that controuls the councils of this country, or, indeed, whoever objects to the defective slate of representation in the House of Commons, is charged with a wish to break the connection with England. For my own part, I entertain no such wish. Were the ties which unite the two countries at this moment dissolved, I think their relative situation to each other