 | Benjamin Flower - 1810 - 692 pages
...rapidly increasing influence of the crown. It was now thirty years since the house passed a resolution, that '• the " influence of the crown had increased, " was increasing, and ought to be dinii" nished.'' If that proposition va» true, then, nay if it wai not an audacimii falsehood, what... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1810 - 772 pages
...the impressed men were immediately discharged, and the officers held to hail, or committed for trial. the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished :" this was followed by several other motions, branching out from the former, and calculated to restore... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1810 - 456 pages
...Washington, and wept over the fate of Montgomery.— In the opinion of that house, in 1780, the influente of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. To this opinion his right honourable friend had subscribed* If the influence of the British crown was... | |
 | 1811 - 1054 pages
...constitutional means, to be diminished. Many years ago, a memorable resolution had passed in that house, " that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." If, at that time, the resolution was correct in point of fact ; if it was nearly so ; if it was not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 1102 pages
...Mr. Rose, the famous placeman, observed, that even the celebrated resolution of Mr. Dunning, " 'I hat the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," did not go so far as to take away all influence from the crpwn : for otherwise the motion would have... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 668 pages
...the crown should have some influence in that house. Even the celebrated Resolution of Mr. Dunning, " That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," did not go so far as to take away all influence from the crown. la this motion, which the hon. gent,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1814 - 730 pages
...their representatives accorded with the sense of their constituents. His first proposition was, whether the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. The second, whether the representatives of the people were competent to enquire into, and in case of... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1815 - 530 pages
...absence; and he called, too, upon all those who, in the year 1780, joined in the vote of that House, that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, to come forward : let them say whether they were then right ; and, if so, whether that influence had... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1816 - 630 pages
...placed upon the Journals of the House of Commons, by a vote of that house, this important resolution, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing and ought to be diminished," and Mr. Preston in his late publication says : " This system of patronage has led to the great increase of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 588 pages
...their most serious consideration, had mentioned the resolution voted by that House some years ago, " that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," it was impossible for him to hear that resolution alluded to, and sit silent. He was well known not... | |
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that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished', and Mr Burke's Bill of Reform was framed with skill, 162 introduced with eloquence, and supported by numbers. 
