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tal fubverfion of all the principles of the law, and conftitution of this country.

2. Because the election of executive officers in Parliament is plainly unconstitutional, productive of intrigue and faction, and calculated for extending a corrupt influence in the Crown. It frees Minifters from refponfibility, whilft it leaves them all the effect of patronage."

Thus protefted the noble Duke; and I doubt not but he will be as fteady in his principles till death, as the much-lamented Marquis, who joined with him in the protest.

I remember that the right honourable Secretary afferted, when this bill was read the first time, that charges of peculation were withheld, because money was fent over to the Directors, which stopped their mouths, and prevented their complaints. I doubt not but the right honourable gentleman himself felt what he faid, when he afferted this, and that the fame right honourable gentleman knows full well that money has, indeed, a wonderful power of ftopping mouths, and of changing men's language, and even their connections; yea, that it outdoes what the poet faid of mufic, that it has

charms to footh the savage breast,

To foften rocks, or bend the knotted oak.

But how far it has been done in the cafe before us, remains yet to be proved.

Before I fit down I muft obferve, that it ought to have much weight, that the first commercial city in the world has expreffed a disapprobation of this bill, by determining in Common Council to'petition the House against it. And I must add, that I am happy to fee fo full an attendance upon a queftion of fuch vaft confequence, and that notwithstanding the right honourable Secretary, most unhandfomely in my opinion, refufed to put off the second reading of the bill till the day of the call; though, by way of apology for that refufal, an ho

notrable

nourable friend of his, and a great ornament to his profeffion, afked, in a maiden fpeech, how it was poffible for the gentlemen who were to be fummoned to attend the call, to make themfelves masters of this important business whilft they were coming up poft upon the road? I wifh always to learn wisdom from the arguments of my honourable friend, as every body muft who attends to him. I will beg to afk in return, what profound knowledge of this bill are those gentlemen likely to enter the House with, who have been roufed out of their beds at one, two, or three o'clock in the morning, by the arrival of minifterial meffengers, with mandates to mount them up to town with the celerity of air balloons, in order that they may be in time enough for the divifion this evening? What is to inform and determine the judgement of thofe gentlemen on this arduous occafion? Why they are to look at the Treasury Bench, to caft their eyes round the House to see who says aye and who says no, who goes out and who stays in; and upon these merits are to depend the annihilation of an ancient charter, the characters of many respectable individuals, and the feizure of goods and property. In fhort, the fate of Cefar and of Rome.

Sir Richard Hill, Nov. 27, 1783.

An honourable gentleman (Mr. Alderman Watson) has faid, that his conftituents, the citizens of London, have no objection to any tax for preventing fmuggling, as they are not Jmugglers. I have a great fatisfaction at hearing this from fuch good authority, as the city of London has formerly (though it feems it has now reformed) laid under fuch an invidious imputation. It has even for a century paft been fo much the prevalent opinion, as to induce a comic writer, who thought it expedient to introduce an Alderman on the ftage, to dub him with the appellation of Alderman Smuggler!

Mr. Courtenay, Aug. 10, 1784.

The

The honourable gentleman who fppke last (Mr. Courtenay) will please to remember, that if one comic writer has introduced Alderman Suggler to the stage, another comic writer has exhibited a Copper Captain!

Mr. Alderman Watfon, Aug. 10, 1784.

FINI S.

This Day is published,

In two large volumes, quarto, elegantly bound in calf, gilt and lettered, Price Two Pounds Two Shillings,

A COMPLETE GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY; or, UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER, of Antient and Modern Geography; containing a full, particular, and accurate defcription of the known • World in Europe, Afia, Africa, and America; comprising a complete fyftem of geography, illuftrated with correct maps and beautiful views of the principal cities, &c, and chronological tables of the Sovereigns of Europe. The geographical parts by JOHN SEALLY, A. M. member of the Roman Academy; author of the Hiftoire Chronologique, facrée et profane; Elements of Geography and Aftronomy, &c. &c. interfperfed with extracts from the private manufcripts of one of the officers who accompanied Captain Cook in his voyage to the Southern Hemisphere. The aftronomical parts from the papers of the late Mr. ISRAEL LYONS, of Cambridge, aftronomer in Lord MULGRAVI'S voyage to the Northern Hemisphere.

Printed for JOHN STOCKDALE, oppofite Burlington House, Piccadilly; and SCATCHERD and WHITAKER, Ave Maria Lane.

This Day is published,

In one large volume, quarto, with an elegant engraving of the author, Price One Pound Seven Shillings, in boards,

THE HISTORY of the UNION between ENGLAND and SCOTLAND; with a collection of original papers relating thereto. By the celebrated DANIEL DE FOE. With an Introduction, in which the confequences and probability of a like Union between this Country and Ireland are confidered, by JOHN-LEWIS DELOLME, author of the work on the Conftitution of England. To which is prefixed, a LIFE of the AUTHOR, and a copious INDEX.

The Union between England and Scotland being an extremely interefting event, has led the publisher to imagine, that a new edition of this work of De Foe, which is grown very scarce, would be acceptable to the public, especially at the prefent time, when the situation of affairs in Ireland induces many perfons to wifh that a fimilar Union between Great Britain and that kingdom may take place, as it may cause such an Union, if not to be effected, at least to be propofed, and to become for a time the fubject of debate in both countries.

"I was," fays De Foe himself, in his Appeal to Honour and Juftice, p. 50, "from my first entering into the knowledge of public matters, and have ever been to this day, a fincere lover of the conftitution of my country; zealous for liberty and the Proteftant interest, but a conftant follower of moderate principles, a vigorous oppofer of hot measures in all parties: I never once changed my opinion, my principles, or my party; and let what will be faid of changing fides, this I maintain, that I never once deviated from the Revolution principles, nor from the doctrine of Liberty and Property, on which it was founded.”

N. B. A few copies are printed on royal paper, price il. 11s. 6d. Printed for JOHN STOCKDALE, oppofite Burlington House, Piccadilly.

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