A Second Address From the Committee of Association of the County of York, to the Electors of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs Within the Kingdom of ... Resolutions of That Committee, at Their Mee - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from A Second Address From the Committee of Association of the County of York, to the Electors of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs Within the Kingdom of Great Britain: To Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing the Resolutions of That Committee, at Their Meeting Held on the 17th of October, 1781

Opportunity for Parliamentary Seduction. From the depreciation Of money, the ancient falaries paid by the counties, 8m. To their refpeétive Members, had become too infignificant to be worth their acc'ept ance; and from a moft abiurd frugality, the necef fary augmentation had been improvidently omitted. Hence afofe a facility to create a corrupt dependence on the Crown, juit when the danger of all attempts to controul or aboliih Parliament by force had been fully roved by.repeated experience. The growing diipo Itiou in that Afienibly to lifien to temptation, was not long unobferved it was feized with alacrity, and, improved with afliduity; and thus the evils which the inequality of our popular reprefentation is adapted to produce, were at laft drawn forth to actual exilience.

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