so exert that conftitutional authority, which the laws have vested in him for the benefit of bis fubjects. They call upon him to make use of his lawful prerogative in a cafe, which our laws evidently fuppofed might happen, fince thay bavs provided for it by trusting the Sovereign with a difcretionary power to diffolve the parliament. This request will, I am confident, be supported by Remonftrances from all parts of the kingdom. His

will

find, at last, that this is the fenfe of his people, and that it is not his intereft to Support either Miniftry or Parliament, at the hazard of a breach with the collective body of bis fubjects-That he is the King of a free people is indeed his greatest, glory. That he may long remain as the King of a free people, is the fecond wish that animates my heart. The first is, Thar the People may be free.

JUNIUS

The addrefs, Remonftrance and Petition of the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, Common-council and Livery of the City of London, in Common-hall af, fembled.c

To the KING's moft Excellent Majefty.

May it pleafe your Majesty.

WE

E have already in our petition. dutifully reprefented to your Majefty the chief injuries we have suftained. We are unwilling to believe that your Majefty can flight the defires of your people, or be regardlefs of their affection, and deaf to their complaints ¿ yet their complaints remain unanfwered; their injuries are confirmed: and

the

only judge whom the revolution has left removeable at the pleasure of the crown, has been difmiffed from his high office for defending in parliament the law and conftitution. We therefore venture once more to address ourfelves to your Majefty, as to the father of your people, as to him who must be both able and willing to redrefs our grievance: And we repeat our applica tion with the greater propriety: because we see the inftruments of our wrongs, who have carried into execution the measures of which we complain, more particularly distinguished by your Majesty's royal bounty and favour.

Under the fame fecret and malignant influence, which, through each fucceffive administration, has defeated every good, and fuggefted every bad inten tion, the majority of the house of commons have deprived your people of their dearest rights.

They

They have done a deed, more rui nous in its confequences than the levying of fhip-money by Charles the First, or the defpenfing power affumed by James the Second. A deed which must vitiate all the future proceeding of this Parliament; for the acts of the legiflature itself can no more be valid without a legal houfe of commons, than without a legal prince upon the throne Reprefentaves of the people are effential to the making of laws; and there is a time when it is morally demonftrable that men ceafe to be reprefentatives that time is now arrived, the prefent houfe of commons do not reprefent the people We owe to your majefty an obedience under the restrictions of the laws, for the calling and duration of parliaments and your majefty owes to us that our reprefentation, free from the force of arms or corruption, fhould be referved to us in them

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It was for this we fuccefsfully Arggled under James the Second; for this we feated and have faithfully fupported your majefty's family on the throne. The people have been invariably uniform in their object; though the different mode of attack has called for a different defence.

Undeu James the Second they complained, that the fitting of parliament was interrupted, because it was not corruptly fubfervient enough to his deTigns. We complain now, that the fitting of this parliament is not interupted, because it is corruptly too fubfervient to the defigns of your majesty's minifters. Had the parliament, under James the Second, been as fubmiffive, to his commands, as it is commands it is at this day

to the dictates of a minifter inftead of lamours for its meeting, the nation,

ould have rung, as new with outcries For its diffolution. The forms of the

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