Wynne, afterwards Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, in the debate on this subject, shews that placemen and officers are very unfit for being members of par|liament. It is therefore very unlikely, that a good officer should be a proper person to make a member of parliament. A senator ought to be as cool as a judge. What abili|ties he must have had, to manage such great and widely distant affairs, at the same time!Ī soldier goes altogether upon force. Palace lord lieutenant of Ireland, governing that unruly, and (in those days) rebellious country and an English peer, trying causes in the last resort and voting in the greatest national concerns *. The duke of Shrewsbury was in king William's time, lord treasurer, taking care of the king's money lord chamberlain, taking care of the We make nothing of a gentleman's being at the same time colonel of a regiment warring in Flanders, gover|nor of a fort in North-Britain, and member of parlia|ment at Westminster. Nor any lieutenant of the king's be by any means elected.īecause it was supposed, in those simple times, a man could not be in two places, serv|ing his country in two capacities, at the same time. The old writ of parliament for the knights, says ex|pressly
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it was provided, that no member of par|liament should be a collector, comptroller, &c. When the first land-tax was laid on, in the time of Hen. That, by that means, he had too much power to do mischief and too little to do good *. It was one of the charges against Buckingham, that he had engrossed more offices, than could be duly filled by any one man. The Guises, when they had power in France, in order to gain popularity, made a regulation, that no person should hold more than one employment at a time *. What should we think, says he, of a legislator, who should order the same man to be both a shoemaker, and a musician *? Aristotle blames the Carthaginians for giving different public employments to the same men.
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Let a man's abilities be what they will, he will certainly not fill six employments at the same time, with the same success as one. PLURALITIES in the state, as in the church, may be for the advantage of those, who hold them but they are certainly a disadvantage to the public. That Placemen often hold a plurality of Employments, incompatible with one another.