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manufacturing community is also a palliation which should not be overlooked; and it can scarcely be expected that present inconvenience will always be patiently borne by the labouring classes in the prospect of future, and as they may think, uncertain good. But we can find no such defence or palliation for the concoctors of prohibitory toll bills, and for the almost felonious conspirators against the public, who rendered impassable the king's highway, with a view to obstruct and defeat the efforts of those who endeavoured to extend the means by which science ministers to the use and enjoyments of society. The same Parliament which had been formerly misled by false statements, and entrapped into the enactment of unjust laws, soon discovered its error, and exposed the deception practised upon it, not only by retracing its steps and repealing the laws previously enacted, but by substituting for them measures of a directly opposite tendency,—extending legislative protection to the improvement which it was the object of the former enactments to crush. No doubt that the offenders will feel the rebuke implied in this proceeding; and that they will in future be deterred from resorting to modes of annoyance and obstruction, which, though they may elude the grasp of the law, cannot escape the blight of public opinion, in a country where freedom of discussion and the liberty of the press are recognised and established. I have been since informed that this invention and proceedings has proved the ruin of the ingenious Mr. Gurney, who has disposed of his carriage to Sir Charles Dance.