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, who impute want of public pirit to the late parliament; an aembly of men, whom, notwithstanding ome fluctuation of counel, and ome weaknes of agency, the nation mut always remember with gratitude, ince it is indebted to them for a very ample conceion in the reignation of protections, and a wife and honet attempt to improve the contitution, in the new judicature intituted for the trial of elections.

right of protection, which might be neceary when it was firt claimed, and was very conitent with that liberality of immunities in which the feudal contitution delighted, was by its nature liable to abue, and had in reality been ometimes miapplied, to the evaion of the law and the defeat of jutice. The evil was perhaps not adequate to the clamour; nor is it very certain, that the poible good of this privilege was not more than equal to the poible evil. It is however plain, that