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 that of the freeholders of Middleex; and many a wretch, whom his colleagues hould expel, might come back perecuted into fame, and provoke with harder front a econd expulion.

of the repreentatives of the people can hardly be aid to have been choen at all. Some by inheriting a borough inherit a eat; and ome it by the favour of others, whom perhaps they may gratify by the act which provoked the expulion. Some are afe by their popularity, and ome by their alliances. None would dread expulion, if this doctrine were received, but thoe who bought their elections, and who would be obliged to buy them again at a higher price.

as uncertainties are to be determined by things certain, and cutoms to be explained, where it is poible, by written law, the patriots have triumphed with a quotation