calmly reproves them for being ſeducers of the people.
You who are here, ſays he, complaining of venality, are yourſelves the agents of thoſe, who having eſtimated themſelves at too high a price, are only angry that they are not bought. You are appealing from the parliament to the rabble, and inviting thoſe, who ſcarcely, in the moſt common affairs, diſtinguiſh right from wrong, to judge of a queſtion complicated with law written and unwritten, with the general principles of government, and the particular cuſtoms of the Houſe of Commons; you are ſhewing them a grievance, ſo diſtant that they cannot ſee it, and ſo light that they cannot feel it; for how, but by unneceſſary intelligence and artificial provocation, ſhould the farmers and mop-keepers of Yorkſhire and Cumberland know or care how Middleſex is repreſented. Inſtead of wandering thus round the
