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 have unavoidably occaioned ome increae of patron age; but the influence created by uch means is infinitely hort of what has been given up by the meaures of œconomy and regulation to which recoure has been had, epecially when the decription and value of the employments created is compared with thoe abolihed; and it will not be denied to us that the manners of the times; the contant exigence of a watchful oppoition; the modern uage of parliament; the liberty of the pres; and the unbounded circulation of the productions which that liberty encourages; all conpire to limit in practice that influence which, in other times, was o powerful and o prevailing. Not to go back to the more ancient periods of our hitory, when the great weight of the prerogative bore down all oppoition, whether of the parliament or the people; even ince the prerogative has been defined and limited by the Revolution, when the people, having recently haken off their yoke, were likely to have tretched their newly-acquired rights to the utmot, there has not been a reign in which the influence of the Crown has been o unceaingly controlled by the jealouy of the Houe of Commons as that of His preent Majety. it