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Excerpt from The History of England: From the Revolution to the Present Time, in a Series of Letters to the Reverend Doctor Wilson, Rector of St. Stephen's Walbrook, and Prebendary of Westminster
Tee plan of fettlement was neither properly digef'ced or let? L' maturely formed; it was neither agreeable to the regularity of the Saxon conftitution which effectually fecured every pri vilege it bellowed; nor did it. Admit of any of thofe refine. Ments and improvements, which the experience Of. Mankind had enabled them to make in the fcience Of political fecur1ty. On the contrary, the new monarch retained the. Old regal power over parliaments in its full extent; he was left' at li berty to convoke, adjourn, or diffolve them at his pleafure; he was enabled to in?uence elections, and opprefs corpora tions; he pofieffed the right of chufing his own council, Of nominating all the great officers of the Prate, the houfhold.
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