LETTER
TO
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE MEETING,
HELD AT AYLESBURY, APRIL 13, 1780,
ON THE SUBJECT OF
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
NOTE.
The meeting of the freeholders of the County of Buckingham,
which occasioned the following Letter, was called for the
purpose of taking into consideration a petition to Parliament
for shortening the duration of Parliaments, and for a more
equal representation of the people in the House of Commons.
Sir,--Having heard yesterday, by mere accident, that there is an
intention of laying before the county meeting _new matter, which is not
contained in our petition_, and the consideration of which had been
deferred to a fitter time by a majority of our committee in London,
permit me to take this method of submitting to you my reasons for
thinking, with our committee, that nothing ought to be hastily deter
mined upon the subject.
Our petition arose naturally from distresses which we _felt_; and the
requests which we made were in effect nothing more than that such things
should be done in Parliament as it was evidently the duty of Parliament
to do.
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