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 N '� Terre. Filius. Where is the freedom of luffrages in this, or in. any other care, if pcrfons are to be brow-beaten.. by a tyrant, and told, Vote j, if you darer I'll a .at k upon you, ad talte care that you ]hall haw 50 livings, nor offices, nor pupils, nor tefiimoniums m r college i' Du have liberty, gentlemen, to vote m you pieaft; but look to it, I hz.e the tovoer in my. hands, and ;roe be to him that dares to dif. oblig, me. This is a negative voice with a wimefsi for any !feud of a college, who has poffefFed himfell of this power, by corrupting to his own purpofis a majo- rity of the fallows, (in cotlege where all the are upon an uality) or-a majoriiy of the 13nior .fdL,:v$, (in cotle, where the adminiltration is lodg'd m their hands) is the moll .arbitrary tyrant upon earth i he bribe one part of his fdb=ot in order to domineer over the reit, who mutt either rubmir to. I. oppre'd in this manner, or to be expelI'd, and. give place to thof'e that willi he care not what does, to indttlge his pride or refentment, becauti: he knows he can do any thing with impunity, and. generally without cen�ure; t-'hr if any body com- plains of his tyrannical a&ions, to that it reache his ears, he will make him, as the flying. is, co,n- plain for fome. parpole. This, Sir, is the care of the perfon, ct}'whom I have been �peakingi he. always keeps a majority of votes under his Kirdle i ant[ by that means com- mits all the a&s.of''iolence, fi'au'd,tyranny,and op- preltlon, that either hi pride or his malice can infpJre. In the !0re/nt initante four gentlemen are mark'd out to fall his timrice, for giving one diibbliging vote l fevcral others, who had no votes, have been. for�'d 'to brek .off old friendfhips, or conceal them  To mention my name is a crime; but to write to me, or be in my company, is c?it. ali nay, it has

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