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Preface
Castration
unfettered by technical forms and prejudices. This I
must not transcribe,nor can I presume to initiate..
The uncouth piles 1 Parliamentary comtion
have not often been graced with such a frontispiece.
In the midst of the however of the pleasures I always
feel at the perusal of this masterly performance discourse, one
short passage or two in it I must take the fredom
to remark upon; — not from any desires put to a statesman
whose public spirit I applaud and whose talents
I admire, but from much less personal and much larger
motives.
(In speaking of the persons for whose reading the
present publication is designed) the proposed Bill we
are told+ +Preface p. 5 "was thought expedient to be permitted
for the perusal" — of whom [would one imagine]? "of
"any Member of either house of Parliament. [Treasury
] I could have wished I must own on this occasion
to have seen some little notice taken [
and of the public at large. It would be singular
enough and rather to be regretted if the capacity
of forming a judgement on a measure place [proposal]
of this sort depended altogether upon those accidents
upon which a seat in Parliament is
known
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