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Excerpt from A Letter From a Member of Parliament to One of His Constituents, on the Late Proceedings of the House of Commons in the Middlesex Elections: With a Postscript, Containing Some Observations on a Pamphlet Entitled, "the Case of the Late Election for the County of Middlesex Considered"
It was urged on the other hand, That the very Principles of our Government did not admit of two Puniihments for the fame Crime: That Mr. Wilkes had ai ready bccn expelled for one of thefe Crimes That for another he was condemned by the known Laws of the Land to fu?'er Imprifonment: That the third being a Libel upon one Mini?er only, it might be of dangerous Confequence to make a Prece dent of Expulfion from that aftembly for having too. Freely cenfured the otlicial Con duet of a tingle Mini?er; and, above all, it was infifted upon, That a Charge of an ac cumulative Nature was new, and unjuft, as it might fo happen, that though* a Majo rity might acquit him upon each of thole Crimes, yet accumulated Minorities might make a Majority upon the Whole to con demn.
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