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 as petitions to the King, and exhibited in print as remontrances to the people. It may therefore not be improper to lay before the Public the reflections of a man who cannot favour the oppoition, for he thinks it wicked, and cannot fear it, for he thinks it weak.

grievance which has produced all this tempet of outrage, the oppreion in which all other oppreions are included, the invaion which has left us no property, the alarm that uffers no patriot to deep in quiet, is compried in a vote of the Houe of Commons, by which the freeholders of Middleex are deprived of a Briton’s birth-right, repreentation in parliament.

have indeed received the uual writ of election, but that writ, alas! was malicious mockery; they were inulted with