A letter to Sir Robert Bernard, bart., Chairman of the Huntingdonshire Committee / by John Jebb.
- John Jebb
- Date:
- 1782
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to Sir Robert Bernard, bart., Chairman of the Huntingdonshire Committee / by John Jebb. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[ *3 ] felves in Parliament ? and would not an adt of delegates freely chofen by the people, aflented to by the king and hereditary nobi- lity, be fufficient for this purpofe ? * 5. Is it not the duty of all men who wifh well to their country, and have influence in the community, to ftate the fubftantial rights of the people, and to ufe luch arguments as may induce them by every legal and confti- tutional method to aflert them ? -j- 6. Is it not much more likely that the commonalty of England, when national diftrefs fhall have awakenec] them to a fenfe of their own mifcondudt, would embrace a mode of reformation, which actually reinflates * la myaddrefs to the freeholders of Middlefex, printed at the clofe of the year 1779, this queftion is treated more diffufely.—I am fatisfied the doffrine, maintained in that traff, is truly conflitutional, and might be reduced to practice by the peaceable efforts of the people. f If that body of our fellow-citizens, who for many years have oppofed in the Commons’ Houfe of Parliament the ruinous meafures of the prefent adminilhation, were folemnly to fecede from an allembly, in which it is irn- poflible for argument, aided by the fublimeft eloquence, to be of any avail—and, affembling the counties, would explain the grounds of their feceflion, and declare their perfuafion, that the laft hope of England now refts on the conflitutional exertions of the collective body of the peo- ple, they would certainly difeharge the duty they owe to their conftituents, and probably preferve their country from impending deftruCtion. them](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391447_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
