 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 648 pages
...or by either house of the legislature. It is true that one of those houses has publicly resolved, " That the influence of the crown has increased, " is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" at the same time, instead of following up its resolution by suitable remedies for... | |
 | Robert Macfarlan - 1911 - 572 pages
...committee of accounts, Sir George Saville's motion, and others. He then made his celebrated motion, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." Ministry regarded this as an abstract proposition, unsupported by facts ; and it was... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1814 - 534 pages
...shall observe is, that those who contend for the necessity of the measure, urge it upon the ground that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. This may be very true; and Sir John, no doubt, thinks so ; but I should be glad to know... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1814 - 730 pages
...differ from any, as to the principle, though copied from none. My first resolution will be, " That it is the opinion of this committee, that it is necessary...the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.'' My second, " That it is competent to this .House, to examine into, and to correct,... | |
 | Patrick Colquhoun - Finance - 1814 - 568 pages
...following singular resolution, carried by a majority of 113. — DD * 202 ON THE PUBLIC INCOME 1st. That it is necessary to declare that the influence of the crown has iu- • creased, — is increasing, — and ought to be diminished. 2d. That it is competent for Parliament... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 548 pages
...the House, he insisted, in most * The following is a copy of the said resolutions : — " 1. Thjif it is the opinion of this Committee, that it is necessary...the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.' " t. That it is competent to this House, to examine into, and to correct abuses in... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 520 pages
...following is a copy of the said resolution!! :— " j. That it iithte opiniorr of this CoH1ttfittieey that it is necessary to declare that the influence...crown has increased, is increasing^ and ought to. be diminished. " 2. that it is competent to ttiis House, to examine into, and to correct abuses in'... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 520 pages
...liberties and constitution of this country, gentlemen might then find it necessary to come again to vote, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." He was ready to allow, that from the present state of the company's affairs, some regulations... | |
 | John Aikin - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...for taking into consideration the petitions for reform, Mr. Dunning moved his famous resolution, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the debate which it produced, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...the Journal of the 6th of April, 1780, be read." They accordingly were read as follows : " Resolved, that it is necessary to declare, that the influence of the crown ha« increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished :" and also " That it is competent to this... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
