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 Middleex hould obtain the right of being denominated the chief county, cannot eaily be dicovered; it is indeed the county where the chief city happens to tand, but how that city treated the favourite of Middleex, is not yet forgotten. The county, as ditinguihed from the city, has no claim to particular conideration.

a man was in jail for edition and impiety, would, I believe, have been within memory a ufficient reaon why he hould not come out of jail a legilator. This reaon, notwithtanding the mutability of fahion, happens till to operate on the Houe of Commons. Their notions, however trange, may be jutified by a common obervation, that few are mended by imprionment, and that he whoe crimes have made confinement neceary, eldom makes any other ue of his ,