National Gazette

Lostwithiel sends 2 Members chosen by 13
Truro	2	14
Bodmin	2	19
Saltash	2	15
Camelford	2	10
Bosiney	2	11
St. Michael	2	14
St. Mawes	2	16
Tiverton	2	14
Maiden	2	14
Harwich	2	17
Thetford	2	17
Orford	2	17
Banbury	1	11
Bath	2	17
Newport, Wight	2	13
Newton, ditto	2	1
Andover	2	13
Gatton	2	13
Bamburgh	2	11
East Grinstead	2	19
Calne	2	18
Malmesbury	2	7
Old Sarum	2	1
Bewdley	2	18
New Romney	2	17
Marlborough	2	2
Buckingham	2	7
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PARLIAMENTARY REFORM

The urgent necessity for a Parliamentary Reform cannot be more forcibly illustrated, than by the following list of boroughs, where a majority of the electors are below twenty ;—

Here then we see that fifty-five members, about a ninth part of the English House of Commons, are sent by three hundred and sixty-four voters! which number, according to that calculation which makes a just division for the freeholders of a respectable county (Oxfordshire for instance) ought not to be permitted to elect a single representative. How far these notorious abuses demand a substantial reform, we need not say. Facts speak for themselves. Be it noted, that the eight counties of Cornwall, Wilts, Sussex, Hunts, Berks, Bucks, Lincoln, and Dorset, estimated at less than a million of inhabitants, return one hundred and eighty seven members to Parliament; that is above one third of the five hundred and fifty-eight members, of which the house of Commons is composed. Whereas Middlesex and Cheshire, which are calculated to exceed these counties in population, send the small number of twelve.

Mark the enormous disproportion!