ſented as petitions to the King, and exhibited in print as remonſtrances to the people. It may therefore not be improper to lay before the Public the reflections of a man who cannot favour the oppoſition, for he thinks it wicked, and cannot fear it, for he thinks it weak.
The grievance which has produced all this tempeſt of outrage, the oppreſſion in which all other oppreſſions are included, the invaſion which has left us no property, the alarm that ſuffers no patriot to deep in quiet, is compriſed in a vote of the Houſe of Commons, by which the freeholders of Middleſex are deprived of a Briton’s birth-right, repreſentation in parliament.
They have indeed received the uſual writ of election, but that writ, alas! was malicious mockery; they were inſulted
