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 influence of such a measure I am convinced that, originating from its proper source, and conducted with a reasonable degree of firmness and moderation, it would produce far greater and more multifarious advantages, than have yet been attributed to it by the warmest of it's advocates, or calculated upon by the most sanguine of it's supporters.

It is not in the House of Commons alone alonealone [sic] that I augur these effects; although I am far from considering it as a trifling advantage that the members of that house should be, to a much greater extent than at present, freed from the over-weening influence of the Treasury; and still more from the schemes of party-dominion, and mercenary controul of borough patrons.

But the greater and more general good which I anticipate, is that an efficient