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creates an absolute, complete incapacity to be re-elected to sit in the same Parliament. This proposition they have uniformly maintained, without any condition or modification whatsoever. Mr. Wollaston was expelled, re-elected, and admitted to take his seat in the same parliament.—I leave it to the public to determine, whether this be a plain matter of fact, or mere nonsense or declamation.

JUNIUS.



LETTER XXII.


TO THE PRINTER OF THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER.


4. Sept. 1769.

Argument against Fact; or, a new system of political Logic, by which the Ministry have demonstrated, to the Satisfaction of their Friends, that Expulsion alone creates a complete Incapacity to be re-elected; alias, that a Subject of this Realm may be robbed of his common right, by a Vote of the House of Commons.


First Fact.

MR. Wollaston, in 1698, was expelled, re-elected, and admitted to take his seat.