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40 danger? the different interests are actually represented, and of course, the people virtually." Paley Mor: and Pol. Philosophy, Vol. II. 220,

Such is Mr. Paley's solution. The plausibility of his reasonings amuses not satisfies the opponents. Struck (they say) with their ingenuity and acuteness, we thence infer that first among the first, the author himself must have detected their fallacy. Charity with unwilling ear half-listens to the report, that the reverend Moralist cannot afford to keep a conscience. In whose hands can the public welfare be safely entrusted, if not to the heads of the Army, the Navy, and the Law? men receiving much and expecting more, men, who must have cut and squared their notions and feelings to the grand scheme of getting forward in the world? to answer one question by another, in whose hands could it be worse intrusted? are not men who are the servants of Government out of the house, likely to prove its very convenient friends within the house? and merchants! has the Archdeacon never heard of contracts, and how judiciously they may be distributed! and "many individuals eminent by their