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traordinary and effential injuries. Our enemies treat us as the cunning trader does the unfkilful Indian. They magnify their own generofity, when they give us bawbles of little proportionate value, for ivory and gold. The fame Houfe of Commons, who robbed the constituent body of their right of free election, who presumed to make a law under pretence of declaring it who paid our good King's debts, without once enquiring how they were incurred, who gave thanks for repeated murders committed at home, and for national infamy incurred abroad, whe fcreened Lord Mansfield, who imprisoned the magistrates of the metropolis for afferting the fubject's right to the protection of the laws, who erafed a judicial record, and ordered all proceedings in a criminal fuit to be fufpended; this very

House of Commons have graciously confented that their own members may be compelled to pay their debts, and that contefted elections fhall for the future be determined with fome decent regard to the merits of the cafe. The event of the fuit is no of confequence to the Crown. While parliaments are feptennial, the purchase of the fitting member, or of the petitioner, makes but the difference of a day.- Conceffions, fuch as thefe, are of little moment to the fum, of things;

things; unless it be to prove, that the worst of men are fenfible of the injuries they have done us, and perhaps to demonftrate to us the imminent danger of our fituation. In the fhipwreck of the ftate, trifles float and are preferved; while every thing folid and valuable finks to the bottom, and is loft for ever.

October 5th, 177L

JUNIU S.