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( 26 ) tract perquisites from every sum of your money he disburses, what would you think of him? You would, I dare say, bestow upon him some very uncourtly epithet, and dismiss him your service. And pray, Sir, where is the difference between the supposed case of your servant, and that of a minister or place-man extracting perquisites from the money of the public? The public are your masters, and it is with your master’s money that you thus make free; and ought you, do you think, in these circumstances, to meet with a milder punishment, than what you would, with great justice, inflict upon your servant? Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris. Besides, Sir, you have of late, and with great propriety, abolished the vails of your servants: let them not have it to say, that you set them a bad example; and that while you take away their vails, you still keep your own; and your own too, they may add, which you squeeze out of their pockets; for, whatever ridiculous notions of independance [sic] your pride may suggest to you, the