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 by the author) or who enter into various profeions, frequently acquire very large fortunes, and eljdom, if they have talents and pereverance, fail to obtain independence. What fairnes, jutice, or reaon is there then in marking the character of the official man alone with direpect, and himelf as unfit to have reward in any cae, beyond an annual tipend for his labour and ervices, jut ufficient for his neceary current expences, however faithfully and diligently he may have dicharged an important trut for a long feries of years? Surely it is not unwie or unreaonable that the public hould be in a ituation to bid to a limited extent for talents, in competition with other honourable and lucrative proeions, and various branches of trade and manufactures.

It has always been jutly held in a free country, and particularly in this, to be one of its greatet privileges, that the chief aritocracy, as far as relates