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Hard-labour Bill Preface

every county and or borough in England might
be proud to acknowledge for its representative, W
Howard was, by the chance of Election-war
thrown out of his seat in an assembly, which
might be more reverenced had it more men
in it like him. Will any one say because
the Burgesses of Bedford were so corrupt blind as to
be insensible to his merits, or so fortunate as to
have met with merits still superior merits (in a rival
candidate,) that it could be of no advantage to
the public for W Howard to have had the
perusal of such a Bill? and that on a question
of police W Howard's opinion is not worth the
taking? I should be curious to see the man person
who would answer in the (affirmative) rogation say so
But I will still suffer myself therefore to hope to
see the time when the representatives of the public
will no longer disdain to take their constituents into
council, and when Bills will be printed for the
perusal not of the members of the House only,
but of the members of the community.

As to what concerns the gentleman in question author of that preface

that he had no peculiar aversion to the interference
of the public at large as visibly may be inferred from
other passages in the same discourse +. NOTE
+ Sa p. g. "Many wished
and panted and merits
says he, " at purpose may be expec-
-ted from others who will
"give their immediate at-
-tention. The care seems to be,

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Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	002	Info in main headings field	hard-labour bill preface
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. hamilton
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