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 It is certainly not desirable that the British Senate should be altogether deprived of such adventitious Members, as have been thus from time to time enabled to soar above their native hopes, redeeming the temporary discredit arising from the dependent conditions of their first elevation, and not unfrequently exhibiting to their country the noblest patterns of administrative wisdom, or patriotic firmness.

But if no means could be devised for reconciling the difficulty, I must avow that I would sacrifice even this advantage to the general good which I conceive must result from the principle of a liberal and temperate Reform—and that the more readily, because I am constrained to acknowledge that among such political adventurers we, at least as frequently, meet with