Inftead of the common kinds of tea, I advised her to drink an infufion of the outward rind of a lemon, which appeared particularly grateful to her taste and stomach. She declared that the felt immediate benefit from this prescription. She took fome drops of Hoffman's anodyne liquor, or of laudanum, as occafion appeared to require. She perfifted in this courfe with evident advantage. Her fits grew lefs frequent, returning faintly after a week or fortnight's interval: her fpirits were improved, her ftrength increased, until at length, without the use of any other medicine, she became intirely free from all complaint. AN AN ADDRESS TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF MIDDLESEX, 'ASSEMBLED AT FREE MASONS TAVERN, IN GREAT QUEEN STREET, ON MONDAY THE XXth OF DECEMBER, MDCCLXXIX. FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING MEETINGS TO MAINTAIN AND SUPPORT THE FREEDOM OF ELECTION. De Bello Sabino eos referre ; tanquam majus ullum populo Romano bellum fit, quam cum iis, qui legum ferendarum caufa creati, nihil juris in civitate reliquerint: qui comitia, qui annuos magiftratus, qui viciffitudinem imperitandi (quod unum exæquandæ fit libertatis) fuftulerint. Liv. lib. iii. c: 39. ADVERTISEMENT. IN the following tract, I have endeavoured to vindicate the primary rights of the english commonalty, confidered as a component part of the conftitution; and have pointed out a peaceable and effectual mode of correcting the abuses of representation, under the fanction of their authority and power. It has been objected, that by the establishment of committees and delegations, a fourth power, unknown to the conftitution, has been called into existence; and that the fenfe of the people can only be declared by their reprefentatives in parliament. On the other fide, we are called upon to attend to that fatal fubjection of the commons' house of parliament to the will of the minifter, from whence all our present calamities are derived; a fubjection, evidently arifing from the imperfection of its conftitution, or, in other words, from the inequality of the reprefentation, the unwarrantable restrictions of that right of voting, to which every englishman is enGg 4 titled, titled, and the prolongation of parliaments, beyond their ancient period. In fuch circumftances can it be our duty to venerate the shadow, the substance being long fince fled? Or muft we, in a caufe peculiarly our own, fit down in criminal inactivity, expectant that our rights fhall be recovered by the unaffifted exertions of our friends in the ariftocracy, or fpontaneously conceded to us by the crown? When the ordinary delegation ceases to exprefs the people's will, are the commons of this country altogether deftitute of conftitutional refource? When fuch doctrines are openly maintained, it becomes us not to reafon, but to act. The voice of the people is, and ought to be, a voice of terror to a bad government; but it will ever be liftened to by an adminiftration of a different character, with complacency and delight.. It furely, therefore, muft afford peculiar pleasure to thofe illuftrious perfonages, who now poffefs the reins of power, when they perceive themselves encouraged and fupported, in their generous efforts to restore the |