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 ¬natural and civil world — There is a point where the first are absolutely at rest, and the second as nearly so as the condition of human affairs will admit. ¬I was most curious to arrive at some under- standing of the principles which governed this extraordinary court; but I might have long remained without a clue to it, but for a small book, not much larger than a Court Kalendar, the work, as I was told, of a most learned man, which gave me all the heads of it in a manner so brief and yet so luminous, that I shall trans- late them into English, that the people of Eng- land may feel the duty of perpetually watching over all their inestimable institutions, to prevent their becoming useless, and even mischievous, by a departure from their original designs. ¬The jurisdiction of this high court, according to the great authority above alluded to, becanje necessary : — ¬l 2 1st, ¬