Speech of Lord John Russell, in the House of Commons, on December 14th, 1819: On Moving Resolutions Relative to Corrupt Boroughs. With Extracts from the Evidence on the Grampound Bribery IndictmentsLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and J. Ridgway, 1820 - 47 pàgines |
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Pàgina 5 - What did parliament with this audacious address ? Reject it as a libel ? Treat it as an affront to government ? Spurn it as a derogation from the rights of legislature? Did they toss it over the table? Did they burn it by the hands of the common hangman ? They took the petition of grievance...
Pàgina 5 - And forasmuch as the said inhabitants have always hitherto been bound by the acts and statutes made and ordained by your said Highness, and your most noble progenitors, by authority of the said court, as far forth as other counties, cities, and boroughs have been, that have had their knights and burgesses within your said court of parliament, and yet have had neither knight...
Pàgina 18 - ... 2. That it is expedient that the right of returning members to serve in Parliament, so taken from any borough which shall have been proved to have been guilty of bribery and corruption, should be given to some great town, the population of which shall not be less than 15,000 souls, or to some of the largest counties.
Pàgina 12 - That it is the duty of this House to consider of further means to detect and prevent corruption in the election of Members of Parliament.
Pàgina 2 - An Englishman, who should compare the flourishing state of his country some twenty years ago with the state of humiliation in which he now beholds her, must be convinced that the ruin which he now deplores, having been brought on by slow degrees and almost imperceptibly, proceeded from something radically wrong in the constitution. Of the existence of a radical error no one seemed to doubt.
Pàgina 16 - Our lamp is covered with dirt and rubbish, but it has a magical power. It has raised up a smiling land, not bestrode with overgrown palaces, but covered with...
Pàgina 15 - Cobbett himself desires to preserve, although, with strange inconsistency, whilst he cherishes the fruit he would cut down the tree. This House was constituted on the same principle of counties, cities, and boroughs, when Montesquieu pronounced it to be the most perfect in the world. Old Sarum existed when Somers and the great men of the Revolution established our Government. Rutland sent as many members as Yorkshire when Hampden lost his life in defence of the constitution. Are we then to conclude...
Pàgina 17 - That it is expedient that all boroughs in which gross and notorious bribery and corruption shall be proved to prevail, should cease to return Members to serve in Parliament ; provision being made to allow such of the electors as shall not have been proved guilty of the said offence to give votes at any election to be held for the county in which such boroughs shall be respectively situated.
Pàgina 2 - ... looking to that House, they found that by length of time, by the origin and progress of undue influence, and from other causes, the spirit of liberty and the powers of check and control upon the crown and the executive government, were greatly lessened and debilitated. Hence clamours sprung...
Pàgina 13 - I still think that there is enough in the peculiar situation of the hundred in question to prevent its receiving from Parliament the return of the two members which Grampound is unfit to send. The hundred of Powdar, in which Grampound is situated, is one of the most fertile of the whole kingdom in Members of Parliament. It contains Tregony, Truro, Lestwithiel, Fowey, and Grampound, besides three out of five voters of the borough of St. Michael.