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 is the conequence. When a man is dimied by law to his contituents, with new trut and new dignity, they may, if they think him incorruptible, retore him to his eat; what can follow, therefore, but that when the Houe drives out a varlet with public infamy, he goes away with the like permiion to return.

infatuation be, as the proverb tells us, the forerunner of definition, how near mut be the ruin of a nation that can be incited againt its governors, by ophitry like this. I may be excued if I catch the panick, and join my groans at this alarming criis, with the general lamentation of weeping patriots.

objection is, that the Commons, by pronouncing the entence of diqualification, make a law, and take upon themelves the power of the whole legilature. Many quotations are then