a deputy of the prerogative, may not be elected
ambassador-in-ordinary, because a knight or deputy so chosen must
either lose his session, which would cause au unevenness in the
motion of this commonwealth, or accumulate magistracy, which
agrees not with equality of the same. Nor may any man be elected
into this capacity that is above five-and-thirty years of age,
lest the commonwealth lose the charge of his education, by being
deprived at his return of the fruit of it, or else enjoy it not
long through the defects of nature."

This order is the perspective of the commonwealth, whereby
she foresees danger; or the traffic, whereby she receives every
two years the return of a statesman enriched with eight years'
experience from the prime marts of negotiation in Europe. And so
much for the elections in the Senate that are ordinary; such as
are extraordinary follow in --

The eighteenth order, "Appointing all elections upon emergent
occasions, except that of the dictator, to be made by the
scrutiny, or that kind of election whereby a council comes to be
a fifth order of electors. For example, if there be occasion of
an ambassador-extraordinary, the provosts of the Council of
State, or any two of them, shall propose to the same, till one
competitor be chosen by that council; and the council having
chosen a competitor, shall bring his name into the Senate, which
in the usual way shall choose four more competitors to the same
magistracy; and put them, with the competitor of the council, to
the ballot of the house, by which he of the five that is chosen
is said to be elected by the scrutiny of the Council of State. A
vice-admiral, a polemarch, or field officer, shall be elected