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Rh contitute a full proof. Upon this principle it was, that poor Calas was condemned to the wheel.

AGISTRATES are in themelves o repectable, that the inhabitants of the only country in which they are venal, incerely pray to be delivered from this cutom: they wih that the civilian may by his merit etablih that jutice, which in his writings he hath o nobly defended. We may then poibly hope to ee a regular and uniform ytem of laws.

the law of the provinces be always at variance with the law in the capital? Shall a man be right in Brittany, and wrong in Languedoc? Nay, there are as many laws as there are towns; and even in the ame parliament, the maxims of