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 ¬swear their bastards to your bishops and clergy? I will now positively give you but one chance more, and you must find me at once something consistent, or I will go back again to England and send over Lord Stanhope to thump you" — Alas ! I little thought how soon he was to be lost to ourselves ! ¬He now turned, by my desire, and as his last effort, to an act against bribery and corruption, the title of which he was not long in finding, but so little was the concordance of the enact- ment that, on the contrary, it only continued and secured the constitutions of their rotten boroughs. ¬As he went on, referring to the decisions of their courts, he was frequently in the same manner most sorely puzzled — Sometimes he found a case settled, and told me it was un- doubted law; but on looking farther, he often in- formed me that it had been afterwards settled the other way, and in a subsequent volume, which he ¬turned ¬