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 offer to your consideration may perhaps excite your surprise; since it has often been flippantly decried as absurd and impossible—but I do not therefore despair of making it out upon such fair ground of practicability, as (considering it's superior advantages in all other respects) ought certainly to recommend the trial of it's efficacy.

I will not wrong the House of Commons by supposing that there is not to be found among them a considerable number of men, independent in fortune, distinguished by talent, firm and incorruptible in principle, unprejudiced in opinion, who by the union of these qualities, if they will detach themselves from party views, are fully competent to preserve a steady balance between the ministry and their opponents.