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Show 114 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL 8UBJECTS. 1; It is to be hoped, for the Credit of human Na. WM Six lVIillions require? --The Aniwer is, ture, that the Returns which you have made us for thefe Succours, and your prefent Behaviour towards us, which perhaps is {till more extraor» dinary, may not be parallellcd likewife. BUT as you flmerimm do not chule to re- that they will require One Thouland Six dred and Seventy-four l{epreienmcive5_ this is the firfl: Augmentation, which is made to our Lift of Parliament Men. member any thing, which we have done for you ;- though we, and our Children {hall have Caole to remember it 'till latell Pollerity ;---let us come to the Topic, which you yourfelves do wilh to reit your Caufe upon, and which you imrgine to be the Sheet Anchor of your State V'eliel. " You are not i‘eprelented; and you " are Two Millions; therefore you ought not " to be taxed." We are not repi'elented, and HunNow to be And after this Increafe, we are to be furnifhed, by the fame Rule of Proportion, with Five Hundred and Fifty-eight more from the Colonies. So that the total Numbers will be Two THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY REPRE- SENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT! A goodly Num- ber truly l and very proper for the Difpatch of Buhnefs! Oh, the Decency and Order of {uch an Afi‘emblyl The VVifdom and Gravity of Two Thoufand Seven Hundred and Ninety Le- giflators all met together in one Room! What we are Six Millions; therefore we ought not to be taxed. Which now, even in your own Senfe a Pity is it, that lo hopeful a Project lhould not of Things have molt Reafon to complain? be carried into immediate Execution l And which Grievance, ifit be a Grievance, de- BUT, my noble Senator,---for certainly you l‘erves iii-fl to be redreflhd ? Be it therefore {up- yourfelf intend to figure away in fuch an auguft pol‘ed, that an Augmentation ought to take Aliembly,~-permit an old Man to reveal one place in our Home of Commons, in order to reprehsnt in Parliament the prodigious Numbers offiritfi Subjects hitherto unreprelhited. In this can: the tirllThing to be done, is to fettlc Secret to you, before you proceed any further in your reprefenting Scheme-~--That the Complaint itfelf of being unreprquled, is entirely falfe and groundlefs. For both the Six Millions the Proportion. And therefore if Two Millions at home, and the Two Millions in the Colonies, (the Number of Perfons actually reprefented at prelent) require Five Hundred and Fifty-eight are all reprelented already. This perhaps may flartle you; but neverthelefs this is the Fact. And though I have hitherto ufed a different Language merely to accommodate mylelf to Reprefcntarives (which I think is the Number of our modern Houfe of Commons) how many will H 2 your ‘ ‘ ‘\\l.\|\r\l‘\| m- |