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Show i m7 i this is the firft Augmentation, which is to be made to our Lift of Parliament Men. And BUT as you flmerz'cmzs do not Chufe to remember any thing, which we. have done for after the Increafe, we are to be furnii'hed, by the fame Rule of Proportion, with Five Hun- us come to the Topic, which you yourfelves do wifh to reli your Caufe upon, and which you imagine to be the Sheet Anchor of your State Veliel. " You are not reprefented; and you dred and Fifty-eight more from the Colonies. So that the total Numbers will be Two THOU-~ 'SAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT ! A goodly Number truly ! and very proper for the Difpatch of Bufinefs! Oh, the Decency and Order of fuch " are Two Millions; therefore you ought not an Aliembly! The Wifdom and Gravity of " to be taxed." We are not reprefented -, and we are Six Millions ; therefore we ought not to be taxed. Which now, even in your own Senfe Two Thoufand Seven Hundred and Ninety Le- giflators all met together in one Room l What a Pity is it, that {0 hopeful a Project fliould not be carried into immediate Execution ! BUT, my noble Senator,--~for certainly you yourfelf mutt figure away in fuch an augufl: Alfembly,---permit an old Man to reveal one Secret to you, before you proceed any further in your reprefenting Scheme :---That the Com~ plaint itfelf of being unreprtfmted, is entirely of Things, have molt Reafon to complain? And which Grievance, if it be a Grievance, dc- i'erves firfi to be redrefl‘ed? Be it therefore fupo poled, that an Augmentation ought to take place in our Houfe of Commons, in order to reprefent in Parliament the prodigious Numbers of Britiflz Subjects hitherto unreprefented. In this Cafe the firll: Thing to be done, is to fettle the Proportion. And therefore if Two Millions (the Number of Perfons actually reprefented at prefent) require Five Hundred and Fifty-eight Reprefentatives (which I think is the Number of our. modern Houfe of Commons) how many wn falfe and groundlefs. For both the Six Millions at home, and the Two Millions in the Colonies, are all reprefented already. This perhaps may fiartle you; but neverthelefs this is the Fact. And though "I have hitherto ufed a different Language merely to accommodate myfelf to O 2 ' your 1M, - \will Six Millions require P-The Anliver is, that they will require One Thoufand Six Hun‘ tired and Seventy-four Reprefentatives. Now extraordinary, may not be parallelled likewrfe. you -,---though we, and our Children {hall have Caufe to remember it 'till lateli Pofierity -,---let If; 11/ man ,. *4 ‘é‘.‘HIIBLJM [ 106 ] it is to be hoped, for the Credit of human Na‘ ture, that the Returns which you have made us for thefe Succours, and your prefent Behaviour towards us, which perhaps IS {iill more |