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Rh {|align="center" rules="cols" miles. men.
 * align="center"| Square
 * align="center"| Square
 * align="center"| Fighting
 * align="center"| Delegates.
 * align="center"| Senators.
 * align="right"| 11,205
 * align="center"|19,012
 * align="center"|71
 * align="center"|12
 * align="right"|18,759
 * align="center"|18,828
 * align="center"|46
 * align="center"|&ensp;8
 * align="right"|11,911
 * align="center"|&ensp;7,673
 * align="center"|16
 * align="center"|&ensp;2
 * align="right"| 79,650
 * align="center"|&ensp;4,458
 * align="center"|16
 * align="center"|&ensp;2
 * Total
 * &emsp;121,525
 * align="center"|49,971
 * align="center"|149&ensp;
 * align="center"|24
 * }
 * align="center"|16
 * align="center"|&ensp;2
 * align="right"| 79,650
 * align="center"|&ensp;4,458
 * align="center"|16
 * align="center"|&ensp;2
 * Total
 * &emsp;121,525
 * align="center"|49,971
 * align="center"|149&ensp;
 * align="center"|24
 * }
 * align="center"|149&ensp;
 * align="center"|24
 * }

An inſpection into this table will ſupply the place of commentaries on it. It will appear at once that 19,000 men, living below the falls of the rivers, poſſeſs half the ſenate, and want four members only of poſſeſſing a majority of the houſes of delegates; a want more than ſupplied by the vicinity of their ſituation to the ſeat of government, and of courſe the greater degree of convenience and punctuality with which their members may and will attend in the legiſlature. Theſe 19,000 therefore, living in one part of the country, give law to upwards of 30,000 living in another, and appoint all their chief officers executive and judiciary. From the difference of their ſituation and circumſtances, their intereſts will often be very different.

3. The ſenate is, by its conſtitution, too homogenous with the houſe of delegates. Being choſen