PRINTED BY MESSRS. MONCRIEFFE, JENKIN, WHITE, HEERY AND DAVIS. MDCCLXXXV. 1 PREFACE. T HE Writer of the following Obfervations not being a lawyer by profeffion, fome apology may feem neceffary, for his attempting to write upon a subject, which may be thought more peculiarly the pro-. vince of the profeffors of the law. But it is a subject, as he conceives, of great importance to the general interefts of liberty, a fubject in which every Englishman is concerned, and in which fome of the gentlemen of the long robe, from the habits of their profeffion, and from their con nexions |