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Experience has since the date of that publication enabled the argument to go still further. In the character of Representatives under the proposed plan think of the number that will be necessary to be got together and all along kept up for the production of mischief in any of the shapes in which you apprehend it: out of 668, 335. Now then judging from experience of this number 335 can any reasonable ground be found for the supposition that so much as a single man would be chosen out of any such class or description of men as in your eyes has been an object of terror, or a source of uneasiness. Look to the author of the Political Register and so many other forcibly written and widely disseminated tracts: look once more to the Spa-fields Orator. To both these, to each in his several walk[?] of eloquence you ascribe[?], in addition to the strongest desire imaginable a capacity for producing political mischief: a capacity which in the Instance of the Writer at least you yourselves can scarcely say has ever yet been equalled or can reasonably be expected to be ever exceeded. Well, on the occasion of the late Election these men looked round them every where and no where did they either of them find any the smallest chance of acceptance. As to the Writer he was absent. But the Orator, he was present: present, and with all his might blowing the Coals in what in your view of it, is the very focus of sedition.