AM preparing a paper, which you shall have on or before Saturday night. Advertise it for Monday1. JUNIUS on Monday. C. If any enquiry is made about these papers, I shall rely on our giving me a hint. No. 2. SIR, Friday, May 5th, 17692. Ir is essentially necessary that the inclosed should be pubshed to-morrow, as the great question comes on on Monday, nd Lord Granby is already staggered3. If you should receive an answer to it, you will oblige me uch by not publishing it, till after Monday. JUNIUS, Letter XI. C. This note was addressed to Mr. Woodfall, with a desire that it should be opened by himself only." The letter is printed in the Miscellaneous Collection, No. Lv. and the reat question alluded to was upon the Middlesex petition against the eating of Col. Luttrell for that county. The debate took place on Monday he 8th of May in the House of Commons, and continued from half past ne o'clock in the afternoon, till half past four the next morning, when, upon upon a division, there appeared for the petition 152, against it 221. Th speakers on this occasion, in favour of the petition, were Mr. Dowdeswel Lord J. Cavendish, Mr. Wedderburne, Mr. Grenville, Mr. Cornwall, M Burke, Mr. Seymour, and Sir George Saville: those against it, Mr. Star ley, Sir G. Osborne, Dr. Blackstone, Mr. W. Ellis, Mr. Thurlow, Mr. O J. Fox, Mr. Moreton, and Sir F. Norton. In consequence of the rejection of the petition to the House of Commons the following was soon afterwards presented to the King; which we in sert, as we shall also, in their due places, those of London and Westmin ster, upon similar subjects, with a view of getting some idea of the gene ral politics of the day, and the warmth of the respective controversies tha distinguished it. "TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. "The humble petition of the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex. "Most gracious Sovereign, "We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex, beg leave with all affectionate submission and hu mility, to throw ourselves at your royal feet, and humbly to implore you paternal attention to those grievances of which this country and the whol nation complain, and those fearful apprehensions with which the whol British empire is most justly alarmed. "With great grief and sorrow, we have long beheld the endeavours o certain evil-minded persons, who attempt to infuse into your royal mind notions and opinions of the most dangerous and pernicious tendency, and who promote and counsel such measures as cannot fail to destroy tha harmony and confidence which should ever subsist between a just and virtuous Prince, and a free and loyal people. "For this disaffected purpose they have introduced into every part o the administration of our happy, legal constitution, a certain unlimited and indefinite discretionary power; to prevent which is the sole aim of all ou laws, and was the sole cause of all those disturbances and revolution: which formerly distracted this unhappy country; for our ancestors, by thei own fatal experience, well knew that in a state where discretion begins law, liberty and safety end. Under the pretence of this discretion, or, as i was formerly, and has been lately called-Law of state-we have seen "English subjects, and even a member of the British Legislature, ar rested by virtue of a general warrant issued by a secretary of state, con trary to the law of the land. "Their houses rifled and plundered, their papers seized, and used a evidence upon trial.— "Their bodies committed to close imprisonment. "The Habeas Corpus eluded.— "Trial by jury discountenanced, and the first law officer of the crow publicly insinuating that juries are not to be trusted.— "Printers punished by the ministry in the supreme court without a tria by their equals, without any trial at all.— "The remedy of the law for false imprisonment debarred and defeated. "The The Plaintiff and his Attorney, for their appeal to the law of the land, punished by expenses and imprisonment, and made, by forced engagements, to desist from their legal claim. "A writing determined to be a libel by a court where it was not cognizale in the first instance; contrary to law, because all appeal is thereby cut ff, and inferior courts and juries influenced by such predetermination. A person condemned in the said courts as the author of the supposed bel unheard, without defence or trial — "Unjust treatment of Petitions, by selecting only such parts as might be wrested to criminate the petitioner, and refusing to hear those which night procure him redress. "The thanks of one branch of the Legislature proposed by a minister to be given to an acknowledged offender for his offence, with the declared tention of screening him from the law.— "Attachments wrested from their original intent of removing obstructions to the proceedings of law, to punish, by sentence of arbitrary fine and imprisonment, without trial or appeal, supposed offences committed out of court. "Perpetual imprisonment of an Englishman without trial, conviction, or sentence, by the same mode of attachment, wherein the same person is at ence party, accuser, judge, and jury.— "Instead of the ancient and legal civil police, the military introduced at every opportunity, unnecessarily and unlawfully patrolling the streets to the alarm and terror of the inhabitants. "The lives of many of your Majesty's innocent subjects destroyed by military execution. "Such military execution solemnly adjudged to be legal.— "Murder abetted, encouraged, and rewarded.- "The civil magistracy rendered contemptible by the appointment of improper and incapable persons.— "The civil magistrates tampered with by administration, and neglecting and refusing to discharge their duty. "Mobs and riots hired and raised by the ministry, in order to justify and recommend their own illegal proceedings, and to prejudice your Majesty's mind by false insinuations against the loyalty of your Majesty's subjects. "The freedom of election violated by corrupt and undue influence, by unpunished violence and murder.— "The just verdicts of juries, and the opinion of the judges over-ruled by false representations to your Majesty; and the determinations of the law set aside, by new, unprecedented, and dangerous means; thereby leaving the guilty without restraint, and the injured without redress, and the lives of your Majesty's subjects at the mercy of every ruffian protected by administration. "Obsolete and vexatious claims of the crown set on foot for partial and election purposes.— "Partial |