TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALEXANDER, LORD LOUGHBOROUGH, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF HIS MAJESTY's COURT OF COMMON-PLEAS.. I MY LORD, Beg leave to folicit your Lordship's protection to a Work, which, if the writer's abilities were equal to the fubject, might be useful to that Profeffion, of which your Lordship is a distinguished or nament. When I confider how nearly connected the Law of Elections is with the freedom of Parliament, and that your name is confpicuous in that illuftrious number, who formerly fupported, with so much fpirit and perfeverance, the constitutional freedom of election, I flatter myself, there is peculiar propriety in my requesting your favourable A 4 vourable notice of an endeavour to ascertain the principles by which that law is adminiftered.: Though your Lordship is now raised above the fphere within which the Election Judicature is exercifed, I have no doubt but that the fame talents which led to this elevation, will at all times maintain an inftitution so neceffary to the freedom of Parliament; that if it should be thought neceffary to propose any additional improvements to the new Tribunal, they will find in the House of Peers an able and enlightened fupporter in your Lordship ; and that the fame care with which your Lordship protected its first beginning, will attend its progrefs to perfection. |