...interfere with the system of Parliament in this country, which, though it must be confessed that it does not bear the smallest resemblance to representation,...government could exist under any more popular mode.' 2 'The object of re1 • In the British colonies of North America the late Assemblies possessed much...

...materially interfere with the system of Parliament in this country, which, though it must be confessed it does not bear the smallest resemblance to representation,...and return their arms to Government, provided such a very temperate reform as you proposed should take place, it might perhaps be policy to concede something...

...interfere with the system of Parliament in this country, which, though it must be confessed that it does not bear the smallest resemblance to representation,...good government could exist under any more popular mode.'2 'The object of rei ' In the British colonies of North America the late Assemblies possessed...

...parliamentary reform is indicated by his statement in a letter to Pitt that " though it must be confessed it does not bear the smallest resemblance to representation,...government could exist under any more popular mode ". Pitt himself, in writing to Rutland, favored " a prudent and temperate reform of Parliament " in...

...exclude them from their ideas of reform, yet in some late meetings and in one particularly, held latelv in this city, the point ran entirely on their admission...interests in Parliament might be prevailed upon to acquiesce3." With the volunteers, " an armed force independent of and unconnected with the State,"...

...Parl. Reg., III, 47-8. 4 The speeches of Henry Grattan, ed. H. Grattan, I, 212. electoral system did not bear 'the smallest resemblance to representation,...government could exist under any more popular mode'. Pitt's reply was to warn him not to commit the administration unequivocally against reform. 'Government',...