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 though most strange, are not new. Lord Grenville professes to imitate the "precautions of our ancestors;" and the precedents, which he would pursue, are those of Elizabeth and Charles the second. To ascertain therefore what effects they will produce, and to what purposes they will be employed, we need only revolve the pages of history and discover what effects they did produce, and to what purposes they were employed. The measures of Elizabeth were imitated by the first James, and deemed safe precedents by the first Charles; who, "wisely and spiritedly adopted such provisions and passed such laws, as gave a security to the Monarchy, as the essential part and pillar of the Constitution." And it is in imitation of these illustrious examples, that he (Lord Grenville) as a servant of the Crown, called on their Lordships to pursue similar measures of precaution and safety!!" Such measures, good Lord Grenville, produced that civil commotion, vulgarly called, the great ! The measures and laws of the second Charles followed up by the second