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expect better things, who, in their writings and 

 their fpeeches, feem proud to expofe their (hare 

 of the vulgar delufion ; if, as may be juftly 

 fufpe6ted, they are acling ad captandum vul- 

 gus t or by way of fhifting off the load of con- 

 icious guilt, let them beware, they are like 

 children playing with edge-tools ; they are ex- 

 pofing their own glafs windows, to a chance of 

 the mofl deftructive vollies. 



I always underftood, that thofe legiflative 

 burlefques, the laws againft monopoly, fore- 

 flailing, and regrating, framed during a pe- 

 riod grofsly ignorant of the nature of either 

 liberty or commerce, were repealed in the 

 lump, by a ftatute made in the early part of 

 the prefent reign : nor have I any information 

 of a fubfequent ftatute, upon which the many 

 late invafions of the liberty and property of 

 certain induftrious citizens, nick-named regra- 

 ters, have been grounded; unlefs our magi- 

 flracy can upon a plea of neceflity in their 

 own judgment, affume a difpenfing power. 

 I have defcanted pretty much at large, upon 

 this fubject, in another work ; but as I am con- 

 vinced of its great importance, that it is in 

 general ill underftood, and therefore cannot be 

 too often brought forward to public difcuffion, 

 I (hall make a few additional remarks. 



I would alk our Englifh democratic writers 

 in particular, who aflert that all political fyf- 



tems 



