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 though private judgment is every man’s right yet we cannot judge of what we do not know; that we feel at preent no evils which government can alleviate, and that the public buines is committed to men who have as much right to confidence as their adveraries; that the freeholders of Middleex, if they could not chooe Mr. Wilkes, might have choen any other man, and that he truts we have within the realm five hundred as good as he: that even if this which has happened to Middleex had happened to every other county, that one man hould be made incapable of being elected, it could produce no great change in the Parliament, nor much contract the power of election; that what has been done is probably right, and that if it be wrong it is of little conequence, ince a like cae cannot eaily occur; that expulions are very rare, and if they hould, by unbounded inolence of faction, become more