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Indirect
Misrule
Examining addresses to the sovereign by lot.
Intelligence thus obtained would have its use
were it to go no higher than the minister: he is
but to be completely useful it should reach must be known to the ear
of the sovereign himself.
The King of Prussia it is said hears
gives audience to every body that asks it, and reads
every thing that is sent him: I have papers are
often returned with notes answers in his own hand. I have
read of this in so many books and heard of it from
so many persons such good authorities [who have lived in the dominions
of that great monarch] that almost incredible as it
may seem, I don't know how to doubt of it. [If
any thing can temper the pain of That even a
Frederic should find it possible to lend an ear to be able to find an ear attention for
every complaint as well as every other address
of every kind may serve as a proof how effectual efficacious
such an institution is in rendering diminishing
the number of occasions that called call for
its being put in practise.
But in short, let govern who will govern, whether
it shall be physically possible for him to find time
for attending to every application without exception must depend upon
a variety multitude of circumstances: upon the magnit extent of the empire, upon the
nature of the government, & upon the contingencies of the day.
contingencies. In England this is perfectly well under-
-stood
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