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the public at large. A power of this sort, if not in reality a dangerous one,
would be so in appearance. Dangerous or not, it would at any rate be a very
invidious one: and such as, on that account, nothing short of absolute necessity
would induce him to charge himself with.
The more dangerous it appeared, the stronger the checks which it
would appear to require. The subsisting choice was the joint offspring of
two concurring powers, an initiative in the hands of three Supervisors, and a
Commission of approbation vested in the 12 Judges added to the Lord
Chancellor the Speaker and the first Magistrate of the Metropolis. Such
was the body of controul which was deemed necessary to confine within the
limits of justice and propriety the original and still subsisting choice: the
authors of that choice all of them altogether devoid of personal interest: all
of them men of fortune: two in particular men of very large fortune: two of them men of rank. A check less powerful could not surely with any
tolerable consistency be applied to the supposed new choice, by which that
original one, without any assignable reason that I know of, would be to be
superseded. It would be setting an inferior authority to reverse the judgment
of a superior one. It would be manifesting more confidence in an
interested Projector, than in those uninterested and dignified Trustees.
A new choice could not therefore with any propriety be made without
imposing a second load upon some of the first persons of the Kingdom,
whose time could very ill be spared. It cost three years to get from them a
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