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Of agriculture and manufactures, the encouragement of industry and civil virtues by which her revenues will be restored and her navy strengthened, her subjects enriched, and herself exalted: but it is to India, that she looks for the most splendid as well as most substantial of those advantages; nor can we be disappointed, as long as the supreme executive and judicial powers shall concur in promoting the public good, without danger of collision or diminution of each other’s dignity; without impediment on the one side, to the operations of government, or, on the other, to the due administration of justice.

The institution, gentlemen, of this Court appears to have been misapprehended: it was not, I firmly believe, intended as a censure on any individuals, who exist, or have existed. Legislative provisions have not the individual for their object, but the species; and are not made for the convenience of the day, but for the regulation of ages. Whatever were the reasons for its
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