folved by his own vote. But to all this a very easy remedy is to be found; I mean, That no lord of feffion should be a member of parliament, which would be highly advantageous to the nation on many accounts, and principally that our parliaments might no longer interrupt or difturb the common courfe of juftice. TH HESE fpeeches are published to prevent mistakes in the affairs to which they relate. . An A CONVERSATION CONCERNING A RIGHT REGULATION O F GOVERNMENTS For the common Good of Mankind. IN A LETTER to the Marquifs of MONTROSE, the Earls of ROTHES, ROXBURG and HADDINGTON, From London the first of December, 1703. Edinburgh; An ACCOUNT of a Converfation, &c. My Lords, Y OU defire to know the fentiments of fome confiderable perfons of the English nation, touching our affairs, and the common intereft of both kingdoms. And I think I cannot give you more fatisfaction in these particulars than by an account of a converfation I lately had with the Earl of Cr-m-rty, Sir Ed. S--m-r, and Sir Chr. M-fgr-ve; in which if the defence I made for you do not give you satisfaction, I shall be glad to hear a better from yourselves. If you afk how I had the fortune to meet with men of fentiments fo different from my own, that |