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'They soon began to rely upon his justice as a magistrate.

This is a point where, their interest being nearly concerned, they are wonderfully quick and clearsighted; they soon discovered that Mr.
Edgeworth leaned neither to Protestant nor Catholic, to Presbyterian nor Methodist; that he was not the favourer nor partial protector of his own or any other man's followers.

They found that the law of the land was not in his hands an instrument of oppression, or pretence for partiality.

They discerned that he did even justice; neither inclining to the people, for the sake of popularity; nor to the aristocracy, for the sake of power.