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from an extent of prerogative, repined at only when perverted 
to the injury of the fubject; as this moft inconteftably muft be 
allowed to have done. 
Unper the fanéction of the firft act, turnpike gates were erect- 
ed, and immenfe fums of money lent on the national faith. For 
a long time the fecurity was efteemed good; and in Wales, 
where five per cent. was given, people at firft were happy to 
place their money on mortgages they imagined fo fafe. The 
transfer was then eafy, and the public refted perfectly content. 
The commiffioners did their duty fully: they laid out the 
money to the beft a@vantage; nor did they defift till the lower- 
ing of the tolls, by the fatal change of the nrode of conveyance, 
had taken place. 
T writ exemplify the hardfhips only in the country I live. 
Other places equally remote from the capital muft come in for 
their fhare of the grievance: but they will fall under the com- 
mon defcription. ; 
Berore the inftitution of mail-coaches, two ftage-coaches ran 
through the county of F/int. And, were it not for an evafion, 
the change of horfes between gate and gate in the Mo/tyn dif- 
trict, one of the diftri¢ts principally aggrieved, each would have 
paid forty pounds a year. This unhappily was left unguarded 
in the ad. By the help of that evafion both together only paid 
that fum: and even that fum, had we not been deprived of it, 
would have enabled us to take up 800/, more; and given us 
the power of repairing every part of the road which was not 
unexceptionably good. 
Many parts may have been allowed to have been indifferent ; 
but they were adequate to the ufes of the country, not only: for 
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