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Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Three Volumes, Complete in One Guns were set all over the country - Prisoners tried for their Lives could have no Counsel - Lord Eldon and the Court of Chancery pressed heavily upon mankind - Libel was punished by the most cruel and vindictive im prisonments - the principles of Political Economy were little understood the Law of Debt and of Conspiracy were upon the worst possible footing the enormous wickedness of the Slave Trade was tolerated - a thousand evils were in existence, which the talents of good and able men have since lessened or removed; and these effects have been not a little assisted by the honest boldness of the Edinburgh Review.