The free-holders plea against stock-jobbing elections of Parliament men

"Here we are plagu'd with the Impertinence of two East India Companies, as if the Interest of either Company were to be Nam'd in the Day with the Protestant Religion and the publick Peace, or as if they, who are fit to be Representatives of the People in the great Matters of Peace and War, Leagues, and Alliances of Neighbours, Succession of Crowns, and Protection of the Protestant Religion, should not be capable of deciding the petty Controversy in Trade between two Rivial Companies.
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.