Thus agreeable to cuſtom and reaſon, notwithſtanding all objections, real or imaginary; thus conſiſtent with the practice of former times, and thus conſequential to the original principles of government, is that deciſion by which ſo much violence of diſcontent has been excited, which has been ſo dolorouſly bewailed, and ſo outrageouſly reſented.
Let us however not be ſeduced to put too much confidence in juſtice or in truth, they have often been found inactive in their own defence, and give more confidence than help to their friends and their advocates. It may perhaps be prudent to make one momentary conceſſion to falſehood, by ſuppoſing the vote in Mr. Lutterel’s favour to be wrong.
All wrong ought to be rectified. If Mr. Wilkes is deprived of a lawful ſeat, both he and his electors have reaſon to
