Qui Bavium non odit, amet tua carimna, Maevi! 
    Atque idem jungat vulpes, et mulgeat hircos.

As the author has stated this Indian taxation for no visible purpose relative to his plan of supply, so he has stated many other projects with as little, if any distinct end; unless perhaps to show you how full he is of projects for the public good; and what vast expectations may be formed of him or his friends, if they should be translated into administration.  It is also from some opinion that these speculations may one day become our public measures, that I think it worth while to trouble the reader at all about them.

Two of them stand out in high relievo beyond the rest.  The first is a change in the internal representation of this country, by enlarging our number of constituents.  The second is an addition to our representatives, by new American members of Parliament.  I pass over here all considerations how far such a system will be an improvement of our constitution according to any sound theory.  Not that I mean to condemn such speculative inquiries concerning this great object of the national attention.  They may tend to clear doubtful points, and possibly may lead, as they have often done, to real improvements.  What I object to, is their introduction into a discourse relating to the immediate state of our affairs, and recommending plans of practical government.  In this view, I see nothing in them but what is usual with the author; an attempt to raise discontent in the people of England, to balance those discontents which the measures of his friends had already raised in America.  What other reason can he have for suggesting, that we are not happy enough to enjoy a sufficient number of voters in England?  I believe that most sober thinkers on this subject are rather of opinion, that our fault is on the other side; and that it would be more in the spirit of our constitution, and more agreeable to the pattern of our best laws, by lessening the number, to add to the weight and independency of our voters.  And truly, considering the immense and dangerous charge of elections; the prostitute and daring venality, the corruption of manners, the idleness and profligacy of the lower sort of voters, no prudent man would propose to increase such an evil, if it be, as I fear it is, out of our power to administer to it any remedy.  The author proposes nothing further.  If he has any improvements that may balance or may lessen this inconvenience, he has thought proper to keep them as usual in his own breast.  Since he has been so reserved, I should have wished he had been as cautious with regard to the project itself.  First, because he observes justly, that his scheme, however it might improve the platform, can add nothing to the authority of the legislature; much I fear, it will have a contrary operation; for, authority depending on opinion at least as much as on duty, an idea circulated among the people that our constitution is not so perfect as it ought to be, before you are sure of mending it, is a certain method of lessening it in the public opinion.  Of this irreverent opinion of Parliament, the author himself complains in one part of his book; and he endeavors to increase it in the other.