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Admirable exceptions! and truly consoling to the six millions who inhabit "that part of Great Britain called England." The unrestrained Right of petitioning against grievances confined to Lord Lieutenants, Sheriffs of Counties, and Bodies Corporate! to men and to sets of men, against whom as being themselves an heavy grievance, we should do well to petition. And to Justices of Peace; men appointed in a moment by Government and displaced in a moment: whose office is absolutely dependent on the will of the Crown, and who are therefore nothing more or less than a scattered Army of King's Guards! men whose own privileges are an insult on Liberty, are appointed exclusively the guardians of British Liberty;—ah no! not her guardians, but her sole Executors!

All the former particularizing of circumstances, is superseded and rendered unnecessary by the phrase "any special circumstances"—which phrase gives to any brace of trading Justices an unlimited and arbitrary power of dispersing the most numerous and respectable assembly: and if human nature