It is corruption that has engendered, nurfed and nourished this monster. Against fuch corrup→ tion, then, all men, who value the preservation of their dearest rights, are called upon to unite. Let us remember, that we ourfelves, our children, and our pofterity, muft be freemen, or flaves; as we preferve or proftitute the noble birthright our ancestors bequeathed us: For fhould this corruption be once firmly rooted, we shall be an undone people.

Already it is fixed among the representative, and we tafte, a thousand ways, the bitter fruit which it produces, fhould it extend equally to the electors, we muft fall, as Greece and Rome have fallen, by the fame means, from the fame liberty and glory, to flavery, contempt and wretchednefs.

Impreffed with these ideas, the gentlemen who compofe the Society of the Bill of Rights, have determined to ufe their utmoft endeavours to exterminate this corruption, by providing for the freedom of election, the equal representation of the people, the integrity of the representative, and the redrefs of grievances. It is their great with to render the Houfe of Commons what it conftitutionally ought to be, the temple of liberty. With these views they have drawn up the follow

ing articles, which they now fubmit to the electors of Great Britain. At the fame time they with great deference, take the liberty of recommending to the independant electors to form thofe articles into a folemn declaration, which the candidates, whom they fupport, fhall be required as the indifpenfible condition of their being fupported to fign and feal, publicly, at the general meeting, or at the place of election, binding themfelves, by oath, to a due and facred obfervance of what is therein contained.

The declaration fo executed, may be depofited in the hands of the coroner, clerk of the peace, or magiftrate before whom the oath was made, as a public memorial of what the conftituent has demanded, and the reprefentative has pledged himself to perform.

1. You shall consent to no supplies, without a previous redress of grievances.

2. You shall promote a law, fubjecting each candidate to an oath, against having used bribery, or any other illegal means of compaffing his elec

tion.

3. You shall promote to 'the utmost of your power, a full and equal representation of the people in parliament.

4. You fhall endeavour to restore annual parliaments.

5. You fhall promote a penfion and place-bill, enacting, That any member, who receives a place, penfion, contract, lottery-ticket, or any other emolument whatsoever from the crown, or enjoys profit from any fuch place, penfion, &c. fhall not only vacate his feat, but be absolutely ineligible during his continuance under fuch undue influence.

6. You fhall impeach the minifters who advised the violating the right of the freeholders in the Middlefex election; and the military murders in St. George's Fields.

7. You fhall make strict enquiry into the conduct of judges touching juries.

8. You shall make ftrict enquiry into the application of the public money.

9. You shall use your utmost endeavours to have the refolution of the Houfe of Commons, expunged, by which the magiftrates of the city of London were arbitrarily imprifoned, for ftrictly adhering to the charter and their oaths; and also that refolution by which a judicial record was erazed to ftop the course of justice.

10. You fhall attend to the grievances of our fellow-fubjects in Ireland, and fecond the complaints they may bring to the throne.

11. You

11. You fhall endeavour to reftore to America the effential right of taxation, by representatives of their own free election; repealing the acts paffed in violation of that right, fince the year 1763; and the univerfal excife, fo notoriously incompatible with every principle of British liberty, which has been lately substituted, in the colonies, for the laws of customs.

LET

Extract of a letter fent to John Wilkes, Efq; from Junius, to be prefented to the Supporters of the Bill of Rights.

A Man, who honeftly engages in a public cause,

muft prepare himself for events, which will at once demand his utmost patience, and rouse his warmeft indignation. I feel myself, at this moment, in the very fituation I defcribe; yet from the common enemy I expect nothing but hoftilities against the people. It is the conduct of our friends that furprizes and afflicts me. I cannot but refent the injury done to the common cause by the affembly at the London Tavern, nor can I conceal from you my own particular disappointment. They had it in their power to perform a real, effectual fervice to the nation; and we expected from them a proof, not only of their zeal, but of their judgment. Whereas the measure they have adopted is fo fhamefully injudicious, with regard to its declared object, that, in my opinion, it will, and reafonably ought, to make their zeal very queftionable with the people they mean to ferve. When I fee a measure, excellent