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 they gave any thing or not to the Public, they at leat lot omething from themelves. They diverted their dignity of a very plendid ditinction, and hewed that they were more willing than their predeceors to tand on a level with their fellow ubjects.

new mode of trying elections, if it be found effectual, will diffue its conequences further than eems yet to be foreeen. It is, I believe, generally conidered as advantageous only to thoe who claim eats in parliament; but, if to chue repreentatives be one of the mot valuable rights of Englihmen, every voter mut confider that law as adding to his happines, which makes his uffrage efficacious; ince it was vain to chue, while the election could be controlled by any other power.

what imperious contempt of ancient rights, and what audaciounes of arbitrary