Star.
London, England, 1822-02-14 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER PETMON.

At the Meeting of du Electors of Westminster,
an account of which we gave in the ST AR of yester-
day, tl,e following Petition was unanimously agreed

u,son:
To tar Ifoxoonaams Tat COMMONS sr vas UNITED

KINGDOM is PA ItLIANIENT AsszKuus.
7.11 t PLUTION Or THE LSEABITAST 11013SEHOLDEILS, ELICTOES Or
wLS.7IIMSTER, LEGALLY ASSIXELED 1 .4 COYLWT-GAZDZIY3 ENO
13;:i LAY or rEastuaar, 1822,
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Mat your Petitioners have, on various occasions of public
importance, petitioned the House of Commons for redress cf

Or vac ces.

Tint tlurir.: the last forty years they have many times peti-
timed the House of Commons for a redress of what they have
tistays considered the greatest of all grievances--the want of
adequate• Representation of the People in the Commons
Rouse of Palk:mem.

That on some occasions the Petitions of your Petitioners have
Lean rejected—on other occasions treated with contempt—but
occasion have their prayers been attended to, or any tad
acro-dt.d.

That your Petitioners, in consequence of the treatment of
v.bich they conviain, had almost determined to refrain alto-
get er front petitioning. But, however hopeless your Peti-
tioners may it; tilis respect be, their duty to their suffering fel-
ltbv -couutrymn induces them once more most respectfully, yet
Li plain and unadorned lanjuage, to lay before your Honourable
House the heads of their numerous and well•grounded corn-
ph lots ; and to pray for that redress which it is easy for your
H ,nourabk Home to afford them.

Your Tetitiorwrs assure your Honourable House, that it is
w:.th great pain they come before your Honourable House whit
7atAncrcus allegations of misconduct, from which no Administra-
fun, and no House of Commons, during the last sixty years,
col be exempted.
Your Petitioners allege-- _ _

1. That the Members of your Honourable House are re-
turned by a very small minority of the male population, and
even by a very small minority of the householders a these
a'ms.

2. That a majority cf the Members of your Honourable I
House are returned by less than the one thousandth part of the
vale adult population of these realms.
That the means by which a majority of the Members of
Ilo:iourable House are returned, are—the undue influence
ci Pet:is—the undue influence of some very few wealthy per-
scns—the undue influence of the Treasury—the influence of
terror, as it is in various ways exercised over electors, and by
other modes and practices, all of which are inimical to free rice-
tien and good government; all of them calculated to_make your
Honourable House an Aristocratical Oligarchy, instead of
making it, as it should be, a Democratical Representation.
Your Petitioners agree, that to the defective state of the Re-
presentation of the People in your I lonourable House, is to be
attributed most, if not the whole, of the evils with which the
country has been and is afflicted.
Year Petitioners
That the lamentable and fatal war which severed the Ame-
rican Colonies from this country—a war against human freedom
ii support of taxation without Representation—would not have
When plate, had the House of Commons at that time ful; y repre-
sented the people.
Y. That the loss of lives, the immense loss and waste of pro-
perty, the vast expense and enormous increase of the public debt
Z.7ld tares which that war occasioned, would not have taken place
had the peoile becu duly represented in the Coauuures House of

3. That the war against our American brethren--besides the
loss of the Colonies, and the heavy burdens it caused to be laid
upon the people, was alw productive of an increase of patronage,
influence, and corruption, highly injurious to these realms; and
that those evils had their source in the want of .a due liepresen-
tion of the People in the Commons House of Parliament.
Your l'etitioners agcge_

1. That the war com—meticed in 1733 against the people of
Fiauc:: WAS to prevtut that Pkople from ridding themselves of a
hateful, oppressive. and destructive Gt.• :rnment ; and for the
purpose of preventing a lietorm in the Commons klonsc of P ar-
tiaratnt iff this country.
2. Ttut the evils to humanity caused by that lonterinti:4,-.1
c4ll Nearcely be Fara:tiled in the hi►tury of tile world, .11.1
I.re :le parallel in nuitlern annuls.
3. Tbst the loss of lives in that war, the waste of the public