Page:Conversations, between James Block, Esq. and Millar, the editor of the Monthly Miscellany.pdf/5

5 that they have got to do, is to work at their employment,  pay up their taxes. A parcel of lazy, ignotant, holding meetings to discuss about the affairs of , just as if the Government were to them, how they disposed of the Seventy Millions  taxes. What business have they with George Rose, the rest of the Tax Eaters? Or the two hundred pounds, which the Borough Faction gets out  the taxes every year? What business have they, ether seats in the Commons House of Parliament be d like stalls in a market or not? Or the Liberty of Press either? If they get liberty to weave, what liberty need they ask for? They discuss about Reform in Parliament, and say we should have Suffrage, and Annual Parliaments, and that we  so unequally represented. They make a great s about Glasgow, and Manchester, and say what a it is, for such large and populous cities, not to  a single member to Parliament, while these small  send to Parliament.

Newton,

Old Sarum,

Midhurst,

Castle Rising,

Marlborough,

Downton,

1 Elector sends 2 Members,

1 do. sends 2 do.

2 Electors send 2 do.

2 do. send 2 do.

2 do. send 2 do.

2 do. send 2 do.

Total. 12 Electors send 12 Members.

Although these 12 Electors have in their power to 12 Members to Parliament, and to be sure they  be easily corrupted; yet the Members of the  of Commons are not all returned by so few, which I will show you out of Tegg's Chronoy

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