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 obervation The only remaining ource of influence, except penions and inecure places, which will be eparately noticed, is the Church; that cannot have increaed, and has never been coniderable: as far as repects the dignitaries, it is public, and generally known; the livings in the gift of the firt Lord of the Treaury are few; thoe in the dipofal of the Great Seal are much more numerous; but, as far as is confident with the knowledge of the author, the Treaury derives very little aid from the patronage of the latter. This limited ource of influence is the only one now remaining on which every peron is not as well informed as the Miniter.

There have, indeed, been hints thrown out of other means of influence and favour, by quartering upon