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 ¬tation prevails, and in England therefore no court is permitted to sit in judgment, unless they who are to pronounce it are dispassionate and unbiassed. — I can see no distinction between the members of a community in a great crisis of its affairs — when a ship is in distress all on board must take their turns at the pump. — The public creditor undoubtedly lends his money upon the faith of the whole nation, pledged through its government to a stipulated return, and it is a most sacred pledge; but the landholder im- proves his property upon the same faith, that he shall enjoy its profits, subject only to an equal burthen upon all. — What colour then is there for saying, that, if that revenue were to fall short to which the public creditor looked when he lent his money, the deficiency should be made up to him by disproportionate burthens upon lands on which he had no mort- gage, nor their proprietors any special benefit from the loans? ¬ " Neither — and for the same reasons — ought ¬ you ¬