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Show ( 6 ) ( 7 ) cently abufing what the author of T53 Pd- cruel of undue influences,---that influence trio: juf'rly calls a high dignity, and an im- which the opulent exert over the needy, have portant truft ; and this after a ruinous experience of the effects of a former ill-placed in a manner been conflrained to act contrary confidence. are others who have been mifled by their to judgment and inclination; while there ignorance, and the fophiftry of men of better It is not to be fuppofed, that either the beauty of juf‘tice, the interelts of liberty, or the welfare of individuals, as united to the body of my countrymen who are unjuttly common good, can have any avail with men, cept by petition and remonfizrance, have no who, at this important crifis of Britifh af- legal means of oppofing the meafures of fairs, could rejeét the wife example fet them government, I addrefs myfelf on the prefent by the city of London, and the county of momentous occafion. underitanding.---To thefe, and that large debarred the privilege of elefiion, and, ex- Middlefex, in requiring a teft from thofe they elected into the reprefentative oflice ; a tef't It can be no fecret to any of you, my which, had it been generally taken, and religi- friends and fellow citizens, that the minif'try, the former fplendor of the nation, and given after having exhaufted all thofe ample fources of corruption which your own tamenefs under oppreflive taxes have afibrded, either fearing a renewed firength, vigour, and purity, to the unbiafied judgment of the people, or im- the Britifh coni'titution. patient at the flow, but fteady progrefs of oufly obferved, would have difperfed thevdark cloud which hangs over the empire, reitored defpotifm, have attempted to wref'r from our Among the body of Electors, however, American Colonif'rs every privilege neceilary there are undoubtedly many who, by the moft to freemen ;---privilegas which they hold cruel A 4. from |