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6 London,

Westminster,

Middlesex,

Surry,

Southwark,

7,000 Electors send 4

10,000 do. send 2 do.

3,500 do. send 2 do.

4,500 do. send 2 do.

2,000 send 2 do.

Here are 27,000 Electors to 12

Millar. Sir, what you have just now stated, the absolute necessity of a Reform in the  House of Parliament. In that Petition which habitants of Paisley sent to the Prince Regent, the "Of the 658 members, which compose what is  the Commons House of Parliament, only 33 a  by the people, the great Lords  remainder, is an incontestible proof, that those  the Representatives of the people, are but the se and tools of this oligarchic borough-mongering fa in plundering the pockets of his Majesty's indus people of the fair fruits of their labour, in order t the interest of a debt contracted for the worst o poses, and to squander upon men wholly  the public, or if known at all, are remarkable fo thing so much as hostility to the imprescriptible  of man, and their execrable intrigues, in supp that system which enables them to riot in luxu the expence of the industrious part of the  Mr Campbell, who also spoke at the Paisley  observes "By the actual state of the represen the subjects fundamental right is openly  thousands are taxed, who have no voice in the el of Members of Parliament; and the present contion of Parliaments, is of a most dangerous and  duration, because Parliaments ought  chosen for one year only agreeably to the

Block. Campbell has copied out that speech from some book, or other, which had been  some Member of Parliament. It is surely a laughable circumstance for ignorant folk to