The Parliamentary Register

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: hears me, mufr. concur in this, that the hill is now permitted to be brought in, more from motives of civility to the decorous manner in which it is at prefent offered, and of refpeft due to the - many petitions of thofe at whole defire it is introduced, than from any poffible idea of the propriety of the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: hears me, mufr. concur in this, that the hill is now permitted to be brought in, more from motives of civility to the decorous manner in which it is at prefent offered, and of refpeft due to the - many petitions of thofe at whole defire it is introduced, than from any poffible idea of the propriety of the reciuiiitions which thofe petitions contain; it is permitted to he introduced with an hope of convincing the petitioners that they are wrong, rather than from any the ieaft intentions to yield to their ill-timed importunity. Something has been laid by way of attempt by the Hon. Gentleman who has introduced this fubjeft, to draw the prefert adminiftration into a lupport of his projett. I think, as their friend, I ought to fpeak out to them, and declare fuch bold truths as I never have done: This adminiftration is precluded from taking any part in this bufmels contrary to the already declared fenle of parliament; parliament hare anticipated the prefcnt adminiftration upon this fubjeft, and they ha1.e no alternative left in acting upon it. In honour and duty, they are bound, they ought and muft lupport that parliament which has, and I doubt not will fupport them. Parliament have already clofed this bufinefs, and even fignified to the throne their determined refolution to lupport the conftitu- tion againft all innovation or incroachment; the fenie of parliament has been approved of by the crown, and has been echoed from the throne to both houies; would it not then be violence and tyranny in any adminifiration, after what has palled, to infmuate an incl'nation to adopt an oppofite conduct ? I find the drum of the Honourable Gentleman again beating up for volunteers: now, as the lenle of the public has been conveyed to me, I learn that as good volunteers, and perhaps the belt ...