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tee promendes of • place of ensolommt, 'tantrum'," end removal of 411 these plans (except they weisid Coil by. sat
power, which afforded to the pawnor all that couletßolter noble the trope apd ineffectual supeelatiededext 4 Chit
hie /sail), or gratify his ambition, which embraced nyatiy House, contemns( some of thosee'dery mite subeeeted is the
thing within the extremes of the highest power, down to the same torstosser to"b• dismissed ailieir brother Amino wboi•
•14"1"1111 and sordid &indication of sconce i• it *Me MO- ease they Gileht he celled to determine opon),-Lif litiaisters
Mame& lodelieke in the highest degree Is Jamison, t het so olothanid; and with no other power of coestrol its the din-
she peongeniem of all 'these advantages VIM& eligible primed's.* of so meay offices, but Met • Parliament did not
ofigtoolo biro or improper direction to a man% apatiteme= hold • pawn In there heeds dangerous to the balsocebf lfie
What' we leers .staked, have then men so enoscieeces?— constitution ? . *loather liege stud extensive increase of
acs ,agettfieteell at .high nsiods.2.—mould they allow iellueek smite from the innate of the Colonial establish..
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we !Wee 'per thr Rival -Oak to -ffillhiSiCe Weeds. There were kvebteen Colonies added to the em.
their emotion I—vostallti yon insinuate that public meg, Who, pine since 1780. Making due allowances for other
eliferehill eolters;shimild be above suspicion, shueld allow changes in the policy of the -hole empire, there were
lietir randuct to etteleioncej be motives whielli• Would bo t waive C,olooies added since 1791. It was difficult to
reeitisidered sr reelections tot Sheistkrohloot iedivideal I. private j come at the exact number of offices, civil and 'military,
lift" 'le the darbeige of his Parliamentary deity, be did out added to the diadem-, of the Crown from this wince. tie
uillool 10 violate the rules and regaiedons of Pm hansent, by bad sot included in his former reckuoing staff apireintments.
inekkoalieg toasty mar motives different from Ouse which j He reckuurd that the new Colonies bad placed 160 or 149
itt avowed. With the personal or private charaeter staff appointments at the disposal of the Crown. The civil
of say man he had no cancers; but he had a duty *Wets were in like proportion: iii six of the Colonies only
to perform, and • rigid of shirk be should avail himself, there hal been added, since 1791, en increase of unless than
•vim though it should lead him to the extravagan HO civil places. Add •Il the civil and 'staff appointments
conclusion, that petulant were liable to lean to those given to sod to be held of the Crown duce 1180, civil offices
by whom they okra appointed, that per.sioners went and stalTappoisioseuts, exclusive of the memos regimented
likely to look to Hie ounce* from whence they were paid, appointuicits, tool reckoning only civil offices of 1601. per
•ed that persons lit the punteseion of power were outride's( asuunt, and above them were 600 more places sow at Hoe
'to quit the hold of their office. And he spoke the laug
nage disposal of the Croon than st`theformer period. This woo '
of the Cmistetption when be said, that phantom, as mih, I the t ie une single branch of the colonial empire.
were objects or distress, sod the laws of the land pe ecrib. Then came the collect lon of the revenue, which was so ex.
0 • dinner's or plaremen as placroon.—(lanid cheers.)-. i leaded and dilated into clerkships and agents of all kinds,
,Tibet mesemnish todelielicy of awl calling thins by their no moiled into all species and degrees of offices and cita.
:proper imam, bed grown •p is that House even witbiu his blishmeuts, as to be suitable to the acceptance 4 every dam,'
you recolleition, semi as it was. In the better times of the i and qualification of persons from the highest to the lowest.
Cialatstutinol it wan the opinion of all great &tetragon' that He would venture to say, Motor they compared the resources.'
oillion the Crown von away ogees of patronage eu be di. of itsfionee at any tints from 1630, when we bad seething
feed, exercagli by meads .Parliament, or indirectly by their worthy to he celled a eulogy, they would shrink iota mi.
/need@ out ordesorra, &lima acts were objects of jeabiasy thing is contrast with Mae source of influence added from
with all mete of roans con•litutional principles, and at all the new Colouiee. They would God, that with thecolony of
times such men shook' in their conduct he watched, and in Barbadoes, aid every thing of the Fame ined added, which'
their anotier., as torch as ,night be, dlntioislerd ta(llear.)— wan posss.ed in 1780, the whom would be found as nothisg '
In opposition to (lint opeearnioh language, be begged to refer to (hill one enormous item. He had not yet said a word of
the House hi its owe rerrolutions, to their Ulm softiies, and the East Neill: There were peculiar circumstances MM.
lit the opinions or the greatest men who ever set in that elected with it :no doubt the Company enjoyed the greater
blouse. The languare which was holdee in those times was pert of the patronage; hut it was to be couridered that there
breech stronger than he should use, fur rt would be cob. was • pretty good usaderstonding between the Goverument
lildired Weise-sir for any matt in modern times to speak and the Company. A great game woe played off in 1806,
woollewseter However be amnia refer the House to a few 'whereby Government brought that 0 'trance more within its
flennees, and leave them to draw their own .coaclesions. teach than it stored at the end of the Americas' war. This
ted Gm be aliontd direct their attention its the celebrated increase of the offices was therefore to be considered re.
44.001Wlitill of 170, sidle which they most all be familiar.— laiively to this question. In three yaws before 1792 the
'TOO next rekletion to which lie would refer them wase when steerage 'somber of appoinimmts of every tied via 133;
a mottos was made for an secant of all monies paid is tee same classes of Aire" in 1820 Lore in number 627.
heathers if Parliament, and the words were these. "That This infieence, if it did nut operate directly, yet was to
aor-the heater p ing the independence of Parliament be coosideeell, because it ova. not likely that many pee.
and obviator the sumenuos that might arise," dcc. such sobs ohjectiduable le Government would he allowed k,
hod leech resolutions were proposed. Was not that plainly 'parlieipste .151' tt. ilOweOer, in one deparinte• t (Be-
li inittiug that the intlependence of Parliament was of nett vernineut was-allowed expressly tote-fonneends of the patrols.
by the tutelage of the Crows. The next float to which he age, or a share equal to two Directors—or to the Chaireptil i
Astitsca to refer was the Old of the late King. a Bill for ex. bad Deputy. Now he believed that this patronage did 04
eluding ammeter. from neat, in that Hoek, the words were Mist in the bandit of Goveinineut is 1780, bet it it did it
dwelt : "'Frit the better securing the iudependeure of Parha. was only in the proportion of nine in 1791 to 38 sow. If,
ciffitni, resolved. that all contractors be excluded," fee. Ice.— es he b- lieved to be the case, Government had no share in
erlk Nouse could nut have sanctioned that law unless they it in 1780, it ins a fair addition of 38 or 40 places put
bail to all mietructors as he 5.4 to all gispemea.
," Tour it their disposal. And then there was this difference
edisfort 'is infl.ienced by your entottliwo, it'd yea are so j hetteeeh them and the 8,000 pliers be had nieutioeed before
much the lea valuable elnoshers of Paelimsent le proportion —that the Indian patrustsge occurred annually—the Whir
iffi you are more or les. dependent en the will ofettother. only by oceciional vacancies. They could not calculate at
Mier, taar;)—The Reese were aware that ;booty after the towhee more than one-tenth of the 8,000 menially al their
tZetellowl ill was expressly metaled by the (let of Setae- i dimmest. Taking this rate, the 40 pikes in their gift an.
- 1 that no piscensets should aii is that Horse. The lest totally would equal 400 added to their permanent means of
illifieure ice teloich be olooshirefer 11,1111 the celebrated resole. felleence, caesidered in tee light is which he is tri taken all
Viea of 160, tihio• the Pike Bid was brought to: " Who. the rest. Those additions immediately forryming were mere-
. or should advise the Knot ant to give his assent to teat ty from the patenasee of the East and West Indies, mattes
ap
eirlieli bail for its object to resider mese free the proceed- In the amount uf all the pikes ad led to their inflamer by the
ff's UT Pathetical, and take
.i.iff . a stain and scimild from etteosloo of the empire, 1.1110 altogether. lint the best 'reread
their Oaken. r, ileould be deemed KO enemy to his King lad of iitc'esse was that to shah he Said adverted for a mucked
bus country." Bathst iteekfeetsed ' our ieleisfors,lo the very lieforel the Magenta, at borne from the cidleeling the re.
Wit him 4O' erimaireettoo', !Wallahs/14 Ills se enemy to , the expense of which hail augmented four-Md.
ffillfeesontrperho withheld hit astmiut to thit reselitioa; the this *hole expense in 1780 was less than one mullion. it
iflimming sodiestionn of which 'erai; that Platerweis, it. 'bele was one folic million' some odd buitdreels of thousand.; he
eve t kairelal tulles proceedings 4 tetillmitelpt ritillftrik) would take it nt four millions, or movireple the former .
Miatrin defelloodeatnertd to liHabtish lehi fitia 6y Halligan+. amount. He would then ask if it was ant time to re-enset those
}hies he lad adduced, lee wished lo Calf the'illtentied of Ike laws white bad before bees deemed an necessary, wises the
Lot= to deer& 'oration, saintly, the increase of Use in. whole ittiereat of the debt was scarcely so much as the ex-
-4 tie (Troia I add he tliuld not tee in what manner p tow of rollectin the necessary revenue to pay it at premise
brae, could Meier e.lituale•thei inireame thee by a review of Another considerable source of indorser was the Mermaid
life enumones ficrease of our rrr.oarioo4 expenditure. He I moment of the debt itself. It was little more than six mil.
Waged demi tieetrobk wield, riasider in what stale our lions annual expense to 1780; it was now hide less titan
esteitel,shmente were if thot time. At that period the Chute fitlg millions.—(Rime emotions of surprise from the Tree.
esprit., of our eshildisholeritn JIM oat amount to more thm I eery bench.(-The interest and expenses of management for
11:930.0081. • The of irvildna was AWN two and • I the whole debt, funded and eisfended, was, by the returns,
werarter rot:lom; the whole recline • 18' millions. He 44,3000001. Besides the operation of Mk charge as ea-
Wuteid not tiouble the And, with 'ardent:en, whieli it,- hausong the means of the people, and placing so many 0.01
centilanfes had made it neeealtary is ripest tot them fee. In dependanee alma the system, or in a oile of tinned),
garner is the lan sot weeks-' lie thought he Might aesume which more than ever subjected them to Its inflamer, there
sic funds necessary for the general expend.tare, oracle- were revenue laws, so nollifarious and vexatious in the ar-
mee of the natinnM debt, at le rodittono yearly. He seat rang, menet, SO minima and peeplexitig, iliac they interfered
soendered the inflamer, added Pty the'neteColon,es—Malte. I With mil obstructed ell the effaii• of commercial life. They
ob. Cape, Colton, Trioid of, stud the Imam blends, which 'slight be necessary, justify them as they chose, oft grounds
piked int additional patronage of 9110 0010. a year at lice of uecessity or expediency ; the effect to all trailers, without
disposal of Government. Add the whole of the Culouies I any eteeptioo of oily one ante* in foreign ur intermit
communed since 1793, and they remold 0,11 the anisout (io I traffic (so completely were they placed under the
soy nothing of euo,ooot ad.1.1.0..ai clime for the swine- power of the officers of the Crown) was, that however
mew of be public debt) rim up to a sum of one million diapered to act predently end warily as a trader, yet if
kterling ; making then 294 mow..a fir the whole, teedead he wished to escape penishoural, be Must take heed to
of the 18 calllion• of 1780. Out lir.t it would be bet fair to his ways as • politicise. Be he ever so honest or conscientiouis
compare the establishments on the same looting—that era the snares were so unerringly prepared for him, that once
peace. The sum of 18 millions was the war i . Is I in his life lie could nor fad to come into contact, and if in
1780 there was tin calculators epos what was coasidered contact in collision with that dreadful Code, the revenue
this entolBo.4ll expeisilitaie, as it wise them cuallidered thirouttit laws. Hardly a single trader, wary mot disneet as he might
how they It rd no right ton:loader it so). being the go casket be, and pet reedy cosmos. of some of the leaps lying its his
piece ertabliehment. Reducing the military expenditure way, bid on some turn or other he (own' Ohm amities be.
lea reasonable standaed fur the time of peke, he took the Reath him, with no opportunity for neap. Mousy of the
Pewee, al three millious and • half front din Mot years of Gentlemen were mfficielitly none of the nature of them.
thipeace which did e4l•Ut Tenn oir ether parts or the To some it might snore, cortuelty to undee.tand • little
incount in the same ptothOrliuil, II would he • rise from ' more than they knew of It. The scheme might be tae.
Keen Millions Ocoee 281 naw,ior faorfold the amount of vinery to collect so large a reenter. He admitted
Ike pr. *co peace establishment, lakiug, the average 'peace il—he charged it upon the national debt thai it should
esiabtahineut of the former period from that of the years require such a orient. He would take •n imumee from
1790, 1791, aud'l79l Vet such as lie had described it were the hews respecting soup, to whew with what a prying
the 'esolortone of that Committer, well knoih by the name I eye-neat • piercing arrangincnt Got/erne/rent winked
of 11r. Ryeler's CuMillitee. They were next to eosimiler in the private coo f trade. No maker of soap is al.
bow tenth had tome added to the influence of the Clooit'lby lowed to have, under 4 penally of 5001.--(hir they would ob.
the inriesme of the Measlier*, not SO much dependant ow the serve that the Exehequv have 11C0fliell in hetet any thing to
memos of the Crows, as -bidding pri.sl or employment at do with small noes—se dealt to grom-100e 9001 3001. or
its will and pleasant. Bet if when those means varied be. • 5901.—oothing tea)—all persons are prohibited from harem
keno fine nail storm neilliono, the Home Moonlit it limes- inane poesessiounny pipe or other cotiveyaocel'or nay ng lees
nary le poi. Met reselndue against the hereensiug MA from molting out of the copper, or for tenor any cock, crime,
of the Crown, bow meth more were 111.1 boiled to cum• myphon, or oilier mot. lament Co toneging it out of the copper '
plan of it whet. the sources of that irialsessee were se sow. 1010 any other part of the asschitie, nor was to be allowed
ellouely itemiser. There was one- qualification which he any lode or perforation. But then came the d Acre ity ; how
would make in dine. It might be said eh it the same mnount were they to get out the metier i It would only pay by
or revenue 'mosey would not operate a, 110.4711111 y new U coming out, however necessary to pot It in. If left, tin n,
it did foeuterty. To save cavil, be would giant for ingo• it would produce no . One way only cools' be •l.
an en's ..keihn et wool,' oily go as far as hi then. Make lowed. an list.," sold the law, " you shall get it ont by a
she rempuison under these new proportions, end the is- pump ;" and to add to the favour, the poor solp.boilce
licence was doubled. Again, lake It by the number of era, was site:teed the privilege of • ladle—(rte himself was truly
and the proponein was sod kept op; so that if any one looked upon as • eundocompe to convey motley to the Ex.
senolsted that the memos wit rather tee the remind wane cheyeser)—but on no account. except with • taunt), of 50'11.
elm in the pantos sebjeet to the Maumee, it would still hold was there to be •sty cock or syphon, but only s pump and
es to the emitters to Governenent employment. Donn ladle, end by no means any hole or perforation. But then
the war in 1780, there were ottly thirty-6k thousand Eng• came another difficulty. The suetp.boder had to deal with
bah troop* us font. He wns aware that by subsiotory •u article of some danger; the boiling of lees was subject to
Sr. vote 30,0110 Gerourn force were kept in service ; euphuisms it uut properly ventilated; the cesium might
but Me trifle...ice of the Crowns in respect to British subjects Ihe (nal, but that was little, there could he uu i .
woo nut st all dinsiniohed by that. It was the some thing to With a moguls,. degree of felicity lit the arrangement,
British officer., contractor', mod commiasiuners, to take up i end in welt mercy to the suffering soap.builer, the
troops from the trentore of Hesse Ca•itel, to convey them to lew allowed hint to ham is one particular part of the
North America, as to remote them from use uwii tenitury. I Cover of the boiler (all the penalties before announced
Sot the total number. of British officers thee We enipl•riment I ropiest holes and perforation, notoithstantliog) iu comp&
wiwe..ooo ; the total number at p.esewt were 8,300, Resides I meal as it were to statute, b like, as with her, a
upwards .4 another 8,000 on halt pay ; atom 19,000 alto. I Wiesen* Was •blior rent, he mialit hare bole, of um-eighth
griller. There were al the form r period 1,800 officers of dee of en ions in diameter. Provos the augur was set drove
navy in set vice. Now there were from 500 to 600; but if the sad dekeilied under the like penalties, which Will 10 prepare
lash pay were added there Violl Id 114. 7,00). no lung •lieectiter the boles to prevent the explosiou of the machine. It were '
97,000 officers of Molt ser vire ; 9,000 nod upward. 4,8 full pay. f endless iu ex. mplify all the instaticem of torture and
Theo if they added Ills treatment lately expeeie,,ced by elli vexali.m by which Government had to meddle sith •II the
eels for their conduct out of Parliament—perhaps fur their I sealopitlettons.ir trade among the subjects. tither instances
conduct to I'l.'lllllll,W ...ile was •tratel tint they would he might tine from the salt laws, than which there
du but right to ears, to she ecconbt of the increased anold he nothing more vexatious and degrading, full ut
lielioniets .f the Croe• a great pert, if not the whole Masses, the mind iniquity of which was that the beide° of
Cif the eigliter u thousand officers. lie would Men ask i proof, coot. my to all sound principles of law, was thrown us
if G rrrr rieseftt, hermit so many agents all over the i Ise accosted—eirirapping and condemning by almost the
country—•o us.; cBBW4Cled silt, MeWlbef• of the House same process—uliisk fropently IlidepellUla of the teams of
—so tun.), stain in the House, with the power of the law--• piruliff., 111 short, wholly shameful to die eyes of
d"saissiolt them •I will, wilhunt enquiry, •r auswer to any soy constitutional lawyer. The inform r, in all other Courts,
shotion asked—wader nu maenad as to the disposal or the held odious and obliged to be tuppence by other Minimal—

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"" tie/011*i iltaMreffaltMet• be 40 110ffidect, dna he
bad oat, to ans. hi (that which he seldom
! failed to do), sad the F iaaß I ry were more than ever
disposed to listen to gm. Whet was the eonmq ? A
wise *net excheqnsied, tie It was milled, had no other way
gar
inabstlaenicinemofheirhoef
ifilygsisierntes
bcouelldiebomllkbeeldcfmancri.beristoy chances against hiss were such as
or pieces. He would give oannye
taken from the glass laws—(for there were Ives for
every thing—soap laws, salt laws, leather laws, tal-
low laws, and glass taws. It might well be aidd of
them se we, said of the Roman civil laws before their
reformation—Am they were the burdens of cantela),----
I• the glass laws Government bad shewn as much skill is
mathematics as they bad displayed concerning mechanics in
the soap laws. One particular branch of the glass laws was
as absurdly sod vexatiously couched as it well could be.
Concerning layers (we believe the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man laid), they were to be made rectangular, the sides to
be perpendicular, the endings perpendicular ; nay, not
oily so precise Will the Exchequer to have all the ends and
sides alike rectangular, but the law also dictated that all the
males should be parallels, each to each respectively, else the
defaulters would not only commit that which was a mathe-
matical impossibility, but would incur fa majors,* corfelain
a penalty of 1001. for each such impossible offence, accord.
log to the 51st Geo. 111. cap 49. A vast change had been
operated in ronimtenee• in the administration of the law it-
self. In 1814, on the 19th July, a Bill was bronchi into the '
Haw about two o'clock Is the morning—and; it was need-
lees to say it, read a first time. It gave Government the
tower to remit penalties iaeurred under the revenue
laws, even after conviction. It was read a second time on
alas 26th, pawed the House of Lords en the 28th, and on the
Beth received the Royal 'Assent. This Act put the finishing
band to the lufleeoce of the revenue system. To sbew the
"operation of it, he would refer to oae of the latest informa-
tions brought under these laws. It was for an infringement
Of the 42.1 George 111. against mixing table-beer with
strong. There were fourteen or fifteen counts, and on one
count there were 21 penalties incur. ed, amounting to 21,000/.
A man of only 5,0091. would 90011 ff lose a third
of his property, however inutment, than risk such
a contention. There could lie no escape in a scheme so
bewildering and overwhelming for innocence the most eon•
Armed. Re thought be had now dune enough to illustrate
his proposition, that in estimating the influence of the Crown
they must not lay ont of the effullet the amount of the
debt and the access'. ily large tempera to pay the interest of
it, the manner in which it was raised, sad the grinding
operation on the industrious people, by interrupting their
honest and useful avocations—disturbing the boom
and wary trader, and making the must independent
of them Ipso Judo traitors fur the mercy retire Crown—
sending Members from their constituents to the Treasury—
iarrossinC, ih short, in every way, direct and inclir.-ct, the is.
Agent, of Ilse Crown over the minds and property attic peas.
!le. He might also state that the interest war better Mn.
aged and arranged now than formerly. Of all the
improvements of the Fast thirty 'years, nose was more '
effectual than this in all the departments of the Slate.
He knew that the Treasury professed not to interfere
meth—and that the patronage transferred from it to the
Boards of Customs and Excise had actually been accounted
for by an ineresce of salaries to the Treasury. He came to
the last consideration, on the articles of increased iolusoce.
They bad gut over the vast war eapenditure, amounting in '
owe Of two years in 130,000.0001. (a sum which startled the
imagination, which was Not to be apprehended, though they
titled the terms, which eluded the groat, of the tairderstanding), •
to the more moderate am about 70.000,0001.
But it was not to be supposed that the expense of the war
produced the whole effect, or hail concluded it. He alluded
to the habit, wind. minty years of a more honest Govern-
ment, with a Parliament better con-tituteil, of the greater
part of the people looking to the Government for the greater
part of the ways and means of life ; lead this was us a view
I. the maiiitesaace of almost every family jest above the
mere labourers. He routrasted the ecommany of offices •i
the end of the American war with the present period, whew
the Slate was full of offices, of which the most cousiderahte
lem not too ioeignileant for the highest classes, and the
ower ones were large inure% to corrupt the en--wer realm
This principle was most deeply rooted in the higher ranks of
society he acquitted the middling ranks of it altoge-
ther; the junior 'winches of the higher families erne
taught to look entirely to the Court for their ma.nte.
sauce. It did not signify that the number of offices
was greatly reduced, there would be a greater struggle
for the remainder. Again, looking et the debt now mid
in 1780, how much more nee ***** y the resolutions of
that former period were at present? Had the proposers
bees alive, they would have carried into operation more
effectual m-apores fora remedy. He wished to observe urn
the language then held, especially by the Hon. and Learned
permit whose name was coupled with so great celebrity in
the irsissart me. MI. Dunning talked of the eorrapt and pe•
cuoiary infloenee of the Crows within those walls (terms
which he, Mr. Brougham, would be severely censured for •
sling). Mr. Dunning was ask. d what he meant by corrupt
and pecuniary influence. His reply was, that he had nu he.
'illation in saying that of his sown personal knowledge, there
were fifty Members In the 'Lome who voted central y to the
opinions which thry held out of it. " I do not wish," said •
he, " to he Ferman', but if you goad me with it, cosi what
it will, I will same them." Nu one thought Ai to take up
the challenge-11 coconuts:ice which reverted hint (Mr.
Brougham) from revealing their names to the House. But
besides this, there was the language of the predecessor in
the honours of the CLaim. He declared that he fell
himself hound to say that the influence of the Crown
had incrm amyl beyond all idea of a moanchy strictly
limited in nature and extent. He wished also to give the
opinion of a wise mid mild persortagtnise who Was inclined
to credit, and never was known to have thwartmd any mea-
sure of any Gvveriinsesit•-4 ostler Blackstone—erring heroic
the American war, when the system of Government ens in.
gonsparably less expensive, in reckoning up the checks mid
gisfegoards set against the prerogative, considered the in-
creased influence as a complete counterpoise to the Dill of
lit ght•—
" Y.l, though these prosiaioiss have, in appearance and
nominally, re.muceml the ati mettle of the executive power 10 a
muck lowei ebb than 111 the preceding period; if ow the
Other bind tram throw into the opposite scale (what perhaps
the teneriel rate reduction of the aucient prerogative may
have rendered in souse degree nee sssss the vast acquisiiien
or force a. isiug Clone the Riot Act, and the asnual typed'.
roc.- of a sianiling army, and the vast acquisition of per.
a .nel attachment, arisiog Cum the magnitude of the asthma'
d. bt, amid the manner of levying those yearly millions that
are approp.i.ce.l to pay the interest, we shall And that the
Crown lira, gradually sod impercevlibly, gained almost as
mach influence as it has apparautly lost in prerogative"
This was the language held by that great and temperate
man to 1765. What would lie have said now ? He talked
of the power from the Riot Act—we find glen our six Acts.
ilia standisig army of 17,000 Lad since here 00,000. He
talked of the vast quantity of proximal attachment from the
debt, aid the annual m.lhous required fur to pay the interest.
The clued was then 130 millions—it was now 800 millions.
H. thought four nullities nod a half of interest as
equivaleut for the lose of prerogative by the Bill of
Rights—that interest now required 50 millions. Who could
doubt but if mess like Mr. Dooming, Sir Fletcher Norton, •sid
dodge Blackstone, could hold such 'mileage al that time,
that the reasons must he overwhelmingly greater (or such
resolutions at this period? He than proceeded to argue
such eq. alone as might be brought against the morale.
He bevel, expected that any one would contend, as Mr. Roes
bad dune in 1810, " that there were as many places abolish-
ed as bad been created." Though in reap et to that it came
Out by much dexterity in the management, that of 1,5110
places vested, there had been in one department—the salt
dunes-500 places abolished. The 500 places saved about
2C1,000/, all average of abcut 501. each. The 1,500 averaged
300/. each. The next answer might he that there were fewer
placeincu titan ever in Parliament. His creators was, bow
many ? In 1780 there were not more than eighty or
ninety; call it ninety, to satisfy Gentlemen opposite.
Now, by the remoras to les Hon. Friend's (Mr. G. Bennett'a)
Mellon, there wets from 70 to 80 His Hun. Freud said that
there were b 7 in all, but be protested against Om. applica-
tion of the argument. Patronage was not etijiiyed by
merely sitting mud voting is Parliament. Time proper view
was, that Ministers held at these disposal themiy-eieht mil-
butts, iustend of the ton or clime millions furnselly. No

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