olitical capacity. But I shall not hold you longer
from--

The seventeenth order, "Directing biennial elections, or the
constitution of the orb of ambassador-in-ordinary, consisting of four
residences, the revolution whereof is performed in eight years, and
preserved through the election of one ambassador in two years by the
ballot of the Senate to repair to the Court of France, and reside there
for the term of two years; and the term of two years being expired,
to remove from thence to the Court of Spain, there to continue for the
space of two years, and thence to remove to the State of Venice, and
after two years' residence in that city to conclude with his residence
at Constantinople for a like term of time, and so to return. A knight
of the Senate, or 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 an 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 elect