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conceive to be Contrary to the Trust reposed in you; This Truth is so
grating in Your Ears, that you could not be brought to declare you
had no Intension to preclude or Intimidate your Electors from mak-
ing any such Enquiry but you did not Care to Deny in plain Words
such Right to be in your Electors yet you were resolved not to
Admit it Expressly and therefore you have delivered yourselves very
equivocally on this Point in those Words. They (i. e. your Electors)
have two much good Sense and Good Manners to drive any of you
to the Necessity by a Personal Abuse of Laying any Complaint be-
fore the House One might be led at first sight to suppose you had
Condescended to give your Electors leave to ask some Questions,
Provided it was done with good Sense and Good Manners; but really
the force of the words alone import no Allowance of such Liberty
but rather insinuate that your Constituents have too much good Sense
and Good Manners to Offer such a Personal Abuse to any of you as
to make an Enquiry: However that I may do your Intentions as
much Justice as Posible, I will for granted you meant that an Elector
may Question you, Provided he uses good Sense and good Manners
in doing it. I am Gentlemen swayed by Birth in my Inclinations and
obliged by my Station in Duty to preserve the just Privileges of
your House as being inseperably connected with the rights and Liber-
ties of your Constituents and therefore I hope you will not Impute
to me any Design (which is far from my thoughts) of bringing your
House into Contempt when I am only endeavouring to prevent your
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Electors from being Contemptible in the Eyes of all mankind. And
now Gentlemen since you do not think Your Electors have any Right
to Question you but with good sense and Good Manners I think
it would be but humane and Generous for your House to resolve and
determine what share of good Sense and what Punctilios in good
manners are necessary to be observed in making their Addresses to
you; for other ways a well Meaning Planter may perhaps Chance to
displease his Representative, either as to the Question or manner of
asking it & upon Complaint the House may Possibly resolve there
was not the Good Sense or good manners shewed, as was necessary
to free the Elector from the Accusation of a personal abuse; And
therefore that People may not be guilty of a Breach of Privilege thro
Ignorance, it would Certainly be agreeable to the rules of Justice to
point out whether any and what Ceremony is to be Observed ;
Whether any and what Titels are to be used: Whether it wood be
recconed Good Manners to trouble any of you at your own Houses
with any such Questions as relate to the Performance of your Duty :
or Whether it will be more proper to speak of these Matters in a
Publick Place. I would not have you imagine, that these Expressions
are used by me for any other Purpose than to put this matter in as
clear a Light as I can; the Subject is too serious and Important to be
jested with since it is of no less Concernment than Whether an
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