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If, therefore, 15 contractors, the number tated to parliament in 1781, are added to the mallet number of perons holding employments between 1739 and 1782, it will be een that the perons now in office, in the Houe of Commons, are exactly equal to the half of the lowet number, at any time within that period.

Thoe, however, who complain of a prevailing influence in the Houe of Commons, do not confine their objections to civil employments, but reort to the great numbers of naval and military officers, who, from the great increae of the navy and army, have feats in that houe. Let us, therefore, make a miilar examination repecting members in that clas.

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