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would wifh to fay a few words on the debauchery 

 that ufuaily attends county elections, efpecially fuch 

 as are contefted. 



Much has been faid of late years on the fubject 

 of inftructing Members of Parliament. No con- 

 dition would be m6Ve juftifiable than to demand of 

 all the candidates a promife that they would not, 

 by encouraging dabauchery, ruin the health, de- 

 ftroy the induftry, and corrupt the morals, of thofe 

 people for whofe intereft they profefs fuch an anxi- 

 ous concern, and to whofe fervice they are fo pro- 

 foundly devoted. I believe it will not be thought 

 going too far to affirm, that very few indeed have it 

 in their power to repair, by any political conduct of 

 their own, the mifchief done by a contefted election. 

 No combination among the electors could be more 

 truly patriotic, than one which tended to refufe 

 fupport to every candidate that attempted to pro- 

 mote his intereft by fuch means. 



In the former part of this elTay, I have mentioned 

 fome of the ill effects that follow violent exertions 

 of labour or exercife, which I truft are fufficient to 

 fhew the imprudence of fuch drained efforts. I 

 (hall only add here, that fuch trials fhould not be 

 encouraged by premiums or other means, either by 

 private perfons or public focieties. It would be far 

 preferable to encourage conftant and perfevering 



induftry 



