text:  Thus we see by unquestionable proof that instead of being benefited by an increase of the constituencies the cause of the Destructives has invariably suffered by their enlargement; and yet sure we are that most persons on this side the water believe in the truth of the Liberator's lamentations and suppose that those patriots who have been rejected by the votes of the most independent electors and largest constituencies in Ireland have lost their seats solely because the names on the register had been greatly diminished and the Liberal portion of the people deprived of their rights by the "emaciating influence" of a bad law