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London,

Westminster,

Middlesex,

Surry,

Southwark,

7,000 Electors send 4 Members

10,000 do. send 2 do.

3,500 do. send 2 do.

4,500 do. send 2 do.

2,000 send 2 do.

Here are 27,000 Electors to 12 Members

Millar. Sir, what you have just now stated, (illegible text) the absolute necessity of a Reform in the Commons House of Parliament. In that Petition which the habitants of Paisley sent to the Prince Regent, the(illegible text) "Of the 658 members, which compose what is (illegible text) the Commons House of Parliament, only 33 a(illegible text) appointed by the people, the great Lords appointing the remainder, is an incontestible proof, that those (illegible text) the Representatives of the people, are but the se(illegible text) and tools of this oligarchic borough-mongering fa(illegible text) in plundering the pockets of his Majesty's indus(illegible text) people of the fair fruits of their labour, in order t(illegible text) the interest of a debt contracted for the worst o(illegible text) poses, and to squander upon men wholly unknown to the public, or if known at all, are remarkable fo(illegible text) thing so much as hostility to the imprescriptible (illegible text) of man, and their execrable intrigues, in supp(illegible text) that system which enables them to riot in luxu(illegible text) the expence of the industrious part of the nation Mr Campbell, who also spoke at the Paisley meeting observes "By the actual state of the represen(illegible text) the subjects fundamental right is openly violated thousands are taxed, who have no voice in the el(illegible text) of Members of Parliament; and the present con(illegible text)tion of Parliaments, is of a most dangerous and unconstitutional duration, because Parliaments ought to be chosen for one year only agreeably to the Constitution

Block. Campbell has copied out that speech (illegible text) from some book, or other, which had been written by some Member of Parliament. It is surely a (illegible text) laughable circumstance for ignorant folk to (illegible text)