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But to the Remarker's foregoing paragraph, page 29, [p. 386] con-
cerning an agent's bill, he says, "I will just state the case in two
words, and trouble the reader no further upon this point. The
Lower House have sent up a bill, which they think a reasonable
and equitable one. The Upper House have rejected it, because they
think it unjust and oppressive. Say the Lower House, We will
appeal to his Majesty, and let him decide between us. No, say the
Upper House, we will submit to no such appeal." — This is very
concise: But is it so ? No certainly; which I will prove hereafter.

The Pamphleteer continues to go on in these words: "In the
same paragraph is this remarkable passage; (Vide the Upper to the
Lower House inserted in this discourse) Why then when other plans,
more just and equal, less intricate in their nature, liable to fewer

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objections, and infinitely less dangerous to the undoubted prerogative
of the crown and rights and liberties of the people, than their favour-
ite assessment bill were framed, and proposed to those Houses; why
were they no sooner proposed than voted out? But whatever were
their professions, they had no intention of raising supplies for his
Majesty's service; nor of affording this House an opportunity of
coming to an agreement with them, at a less expence than that of his
Majesty's prerogative, and the people's liberties, by a total subversion
of our present constitution, and lodging the several powers thereof,
now equally distributed for the preservation of the whole, in their
hands? And if their warmest professions appear thus destitute of
truth and candour, what regard are we to pay to those so often
repeated by yourselves?'' The Remarker says, "I have given you
the passage entire, because it is a masterpiece both as to language
and matter;" he continues, "It puts me in mind of a little county-
court attorney, who has a right to speak last in a cause, and from

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that confidence, fumes, bounces and bullies, treats his antagonist
with all the Billingsgate of the bar, loads him with calumnies and
indecent reflexions, and utters in a style of declamatory vehemence,
whatever may tend to blacken and vilify the whole party, without
the least regard to truth, candour, or common decency."
The abovementioned paragraph of the Upper House inserted by
the writer, seems a quibbling artifice and low craft, to turn the read-
er's mind from off his foregoing sentences, viz. "Say the Lower
House, We will appeal to his Majesty and let him decide between
us. No, say the Upper House, We will submit to no such appeal."
The reader will be pleased to observe the subsequent paragraph to
his assertions is not relative to the agent's bill, though he makes it
subsequent, and subjoins it to his foregoing two sentences, saying,
"In the same paragraph is this remarkable passage, Why then as
other plans more just and equal, &c." as before recited; and at the
end he says, "I have given you the passage intire." But he substitutes
no reasons given by the Upper in their answer to the Lower House,