 | 1793 - 532 pages
...Blackftonc and MT. Hume ; and, lailly, the memorable revolution of the houfe of common:. — •• that the influence of " the crown had increafed, was "increafing, and ought to be di" miniihed." Does any man, he fiid, doubt this authority .' Were not they who voted it witneffes... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1780 - 410 pages
...their reprefentatives accorded with the fenfe of their conftituents. His firft propofition was, whether the influence of the crown had increafed, was increafing, and ought to be diminifhed. The fecond, whether the reprefentatives of the people were competent to enquire into, and in cafe of abufe... | |
 | 1782 - 434 pages
...Parliament might be confiftent with thofe of the people, he moved two propofitions, the fi:ft of which was, that the influence of the crown had increafed, was increafing, and ought to be diminifhed. The fecond ; thaj it is competent to this Houfe to examine into and correct the abufcs in the expenditure... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1784 - 304 pages
...grand and primary objefts. He was happy at the recolleftion of having been an affiftant in voting " that the influence of the Crown had increafed, was increafing, and ought to be diminifhed." He was happy at the recollection of having been connected with thofe men who had banifhed contractors,... | |
 | John Wilkes - 1786 - 460 pages
...firft object of my*wUhes was the immortality of the liberties of my country, and I had always thought that the influence of the crown had increafed, was increafing, and ought 10 be diminifoed, three propositions regularly fupported by one half of the Coalition, and regularly... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1789 - 604 pages
...employed in political fervices ? The honourable gentleman had voted on the motion, fome years firtce, "That the influence of the Crown had increafed, was " increafing, and ought to bediminiflied." He hadoppoied.it, and fo had his right honourable and learned friend, and yet his right... | |
 | Gebhard Friedrich August Wendeborn - 1791 - 338 pages
...ago, when thofe who are filled patriots got the upper hand in parliament, they went fo far as to vote, that the influence of the crown had increafed, was increafing, and ought to be diminifhed. Nay, an inquiry was even fet on foot into the manner in which the money raifcd for. the civil lift,... | |
 | 1792 - 724 pages
...that that thé Britifh conftitution was not perfeft, Mr. Fox mentioned the vote of the year 1780, " That the influence of the crown had increafed, was increafing, and ought to be diminiihed." To this vote hie right honourable friend had aflented ; and in 1783, when his majefty,... | |
 | 1793 - 542 pages
...Jnilice Blackftone and Mr. Hume ; and, laffly, the memorable revolution of the houfe of commons. — " that the influence of " the crown had increafed, was " increafing, and ought to be di" minifted." Does any man, he faid, doubt this authority ? Were not they who voted it witnefles of... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1793 - 740 pages
...He profefTed his readinefs to maintain there was no neceflity at this time to renew the refolution, That the influence of the Crown had increafed, was increafing, and ought to fufFer diminution — for that he was ready to prove that the influence of the Crown was not increafing... | |
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Lords, who came into office abetting the principle that the influence of the Crown had increafed, was increafing, and ought to be diminifhed. 
