Excerpt from A Whig's Apology for His Consistency: In a Letter From a Member of Parliament to His Friend in the Borough You will acknowledge by this proceeding, as I hope you will soon discover by the sen timents it is intended to convey, how little I am disposed to quit that middle path in which, as your representative, and in uni son with your wishes, I have journeyed on for so many years. You will see that I have neither the expectation of improving our own state of things by any infusion of the new principles, nor think the mischief with which we are threatened by their pre valence to be averted by the derelifiion of those on which I have conceived the whole(3) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.