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Thee comparions are made to meet the complaint referred to; but if the parliamentary conduct of the gentlemen in thee two highly honourable profeions is adverted to, there will be no reaon to think they are more under an undue influence than members of other decriptions. To what extent influence is derived from the dipofal of commiions, in either ervice, from the large etablihments of both, to perons not in parliament, the author has not much better means of judging than the public at large, who fee the appointments in the daily papers; as he has good reaon for believing that Mr. Pitt interfered very little with the patronage of the Commander in Chief, or the Admiralty.

In times not very remote, indulgence was hewn to perons in lucrative employments, holding large ums of public money in their hands, in ome tances