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 names. The deficient votes would be dealt with in like manner, and thus the sympathies of all would be awakened and called into exercise. The electors in the metropolis, emancipated from the trammels by which they are now restricted, and having before them a field of choice, including many men amongst their contemporaries whose names they have been accustomed to admire or venerate, would gather together members certainly not less eminent than those of any other constituency in the kingdom. In an equal system of suffrage in counties and boroughs—and of individual independence—it is probable that the county electors between the Humber, the Mersey, and the Tees—or the county electors south of the Severn, would be entitled to nearly the same number of members as the electors of the metropolis; and a competition between the metropolis, the north, and the south, to be represented in the state by the most distinguished of contemporaneous statesmen, would impart a new and incalcu-