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, could not be regained without expres permiion of the ame tatute.

right of being choen again to a eat thus vacated, is not enjoyed by any general right, but required a pecial claue, and olicitous proviion.

what reemblaneeresemblance [sic] can imagination conceive between one man vacating his feat, by a mark of favour from the crown, and another driven from it for edition and obcenity. The acceptance of a place contaminates no character; the crown that gives it, intends to give with it always dignity, ometimes authority. The commons, it is well known, think not wore of themelves or others for their offices of profit; yet profit implies temptation, and may expoe a repreentative to the upicion of his contituents; though if they till think him worthy of their confidence, they may again elect him.