...reading of a motion of Mr. Fox's in Parliament, by which he carried it as the resolution of the House, ' That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished.'* But he could not get them to do anything upon this motion. They would come to no specific or operative...

...to beggary. The House would act in this case as the British House of Commons once did. They voted, " that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." But they had never acted up to this resolution, or done anything upon it. In the same way, the gentlemen...

...inhabitants the most industrious and well-conditioned in Europe ; loud denunciations that the power of the crown " had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" lamentations on the evidently approaching extinction of the liberties of England, under the combined...

...Crown had no power in this country, he (Mr. Osborne) agreed with him. The famous resolution of 1780, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to decrease, could not be moved now. There had been a shuffle of the cards since. Tho interest of the...

...inhabitants the most industrious and well-conditioned in Europe ; loud denunciations that the power of the crown " had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" lamentations on the evidently approaching extinction of the liberties of England, under the combined...

...inhabitants the most industrious and well-conditioned in Europe ; loud denunciations that the power of the crown " had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished;" lamentations on the evidently approaching extinction of the liberties of England, under the combined...

...infinitely greater than when one section of the present Government had beaten the other on the resolution that ' the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished.' He lamented the death of the Marquis of Buckingham, who, had he survived, would have adhered steadily...

...inhabitants the most industrious and well-conditioned in Europe; loud denunciations that the power of the Crown had " increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished;" lamentations on the evidently approaching extinction of the liberties of England under the combined...

...petitions, and committees of correspondence, announced the public discontent ; and instead of voting with a triumphant majority, the friends of government were...struggle and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons ' (Euvres de Beaumarchais, torn. iii. p. 299, 355. 1 I can never forget the delight with which that...

...works." This may be very true ; but it must be remembered that the former were written when " the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" — the latter came forth when democracy was rampant in France and threatened to become dangerous...