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X But, Contractors, you will say perhaps, or at least if you don't
there are enough that will, "are a good for nothing set of people: and why
"should we be fleeced by them? One of them perjured himself not long
"ago, and we put him into the pillory. They are the same sort of gentry
"that are called Farmers General in France, and Publicans in the
"Gospel, where they are ranked with sinners: and nobody likes them
"any where." All this to be sure is very true.— But if you put one
of them into the pillory, you put an other of them into the Post-office
and if in the devoted city, five rightious would have screened the
whole gang from the perdition called for by the enormities of ninety
five unrightious, why should not the merits of one a Palmer be enough
to make it up for the demerits of twenty a whole tribe of Atkinsons? Gentlemen
in general, as I have had Manifold occasion to observe, love
close reasoning, and here they have it. It might be thought straying from
the point, if I ventured to add, that gentlemen in the corn trade, or in
any other trade, have not commonly quite so many witnesses to their
bargains, as my Contractor would have to the management of his hour

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