nocent, are grofs infults to the fubject, and an impeachment of common understanding.

Our courts of law fhould abolish their long vacations, and fit once every month, to administer justice to the injured, and to impart judgment between man and man.-Judges fhould always be in town, and every one of them, of whatever court, ought to have the power of granting a Habeas, taking bail, &c. whether the action, or actions may have been brought in the BENCH, or COMMONPLEAS, or in any other Court.

We daily fee men of the baseft character, encouraged to bring actions against the peaceable part of the community; and many an induftrious honest person, through the mal-practice of the law, has been brought to a morfel of bread and deprivation of liberty!-That which was originally intended for the public protection, and the fafety of fociety, has been converted into tyrannical oppreffion, and all this, through the diabolical fchemes

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fchemes of interested wretches, who are a difgrase to human nature and opponents to the rights of

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That there are good men in every profeffion, no one can deny, but what an infamous mifcreant muft he be, who for a few guineas, will encourage the father and fon to difpute, and who will contrive every scheme, to destroy the peace and harof a family or fociety, in order that he may fill his own pocket!

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This nation might yet emancipate itself, if it would correct the abufes and rogueries of mean attornies, and other creatures of the law, whose views and interefts are always inimical, to the peace and harmony of Society.-It appears to me, that the unclean spirits, who entered into the fwine, were the lawyers of those days. Since, and even before the time of Noah, they have been the curfe not only of CANAAN, but of the whole human race. Many an honeft, induftrious perfon has been made the fervant of fervants, through their chemes!

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There are also another fet of peace difturbers, commonly called trading juftices, but who are more properly entitled to the appellation of fwindling pick-pockets. Their principal commerce is, that of employing a multitude of pardoned criminals, to bring the lower clafs of people before them, whom they fine, ad Libitum, and often fend to jail, for not being able to pay themselves and runners. -Nay, methinks, it is the difpofition of these honest traders, to commit the king and all his fubjects to prifon, for a fhilling a head!--What a fcandalous fhame for a man, fitting in the feat of juftice, pretending to check immorality and vice, to hold out his hand, and even compel poor mife, rable wretches to throw him a filling or two!

This nation make a great noife as to the severity of law, and the rafcality of its profeffors, and yet themselves are to blame for it.-Mr. Attorney must always have a finger in every piece of bufinefs, before it can be fettled! A country clown has now arrived to fuch a pitch of understanding, that he can do nothing, without the advice of his

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lawyer, who is always ready to put him out of the right road, in order that he may have fomething to do, and much to receive !-How abfurd and impolitic is fuch conduct: every man of fenfe must conclude, that the attorney who refuses to let his client amicably fettle his affairs, with his opponent, only waits an opportunity to pick his pocket !---Witness honeft B. of Rochester, the holder of Jonathan's ill-got deeds, and the feducer of his foolish daughter, whom he has taught the art of perjury, in order that he may the more eafily accomplish his wicked defigns, which he is determined to do, if falfe fwearing, fwindling and adultery, added to the defaming of the innocent and injured, can bring about his ends!

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To conclude, we truft that the glorious fabric of freedom, reared up, as it were, by the hand of Omnipotence, will foon appear. A fabric that will stand firm and unfhaken, as being fenced round with barriers, which will mock the dark defigns of treachery, and bid defiance to the impotent efforts of defpotifm and corruption.

Mr.Burke's tyrannical fyftem of politics, and confined ideas of liberty, published in his late pamphlet, must fall to the ground; and every scheme, or plan, made ufe of, to oppress the human race, must be destroyed. Wealth and property must be wrefted from the hands of rapacity and indolence, and divided amongst mankind at large, in proportion as they merit it. Then will those of useful, invigorated industry, fhine as ufeful members of

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