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having happily established itself, either these Sub-Commissioners
either were never were never established, or the practice
of appointing them has long since ceased. But
the judicial Authority, of given to the
Commissioners over
the London District, still a district composed of the
City and the County for ten miles round & still
keeps its seat: and very proper it seems to [+] were
be that it should: for, were it not for this, in the City of London,
the Ma Justice, not being in the nomination
of the Crown, in a times of popular ferment, the Magistracy
such as those that of Wilkes and Liberty- -
such as many now living have seen already,
and may be doomed to see again - [+] might [I] the governing body of the City
of it possessed under the favour of a monopoly of this power render itself a sort of fourth estate, and by cutting
off this vast branch of the supply, erect itself
every now and then, into a second House of Commons.
In the present instance the reason for this
union of powers in the London District can
not hardly be said to be quite so strong perhaps added; it is true as in the case of
the Excise; but it is of reason; is not wanting
and reason of the same d, is not wanting, and it
seems strong enough to be conclusive.
of the Metropolis, and as far as aboutIn The
half the whole population of the proposed London
District is concerned, the business junctures
might be effected by [+] without calling in the [+] by so simple and expedient as that of putting the Commissioners of the Place, and The In
authority of Parliament. But the efficacy of
this expedient would not extendexpand to comprehend
the Liberties comprising about the other half
of the population of the District or thereabouts for<add></add>
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