From The Accession Of Henry Vii To The Present Time PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... the Commons in the Middlesex election, and the contest which had lately arisen between them and the city magistracy;l but found no more than twenty-three supporters.l The concluding incidents of the Middlesex election may now be briefly told, before we advert to a still more important conflict which was raging at this time, with the privileges of the Commons; and the new embarrassments which Wilkes had raised. In the next session, Sir George Savile, in order to renew the annual protest against the Middlesex election. Sir George gariie' mo- iimvcll for a bill to secure the rights of electors, with respect to the eligibility of persons to serve in Parliament . Lord North here declared, that the proceedings of the Commons had "been highly consistent with justice, and the law of the land; and that to his dying day he should continue to approve of them." The motion was defeated by a majority of forty-six.* In 1773, Mr. Wilkes brought his case before the House, in the shape of a frivolous complaint against the p of Deputy-Clerk of the Crown, who had refused to cicrk give him a certificate, as one of the members for Middlesex. Sir G. Savile, also, renewed his motion for a bill to secure the rights of electors, and found one hundred and fifty supporters.4 Mr. Burke took this occasion to predict that, "there would come a time when those now in office would be reduced to their penitentials, for having turned a deaf ear to the voice of the people." In 1774, Sir G. Savile renewed his motion for a bill to secure the rights of electors, with the usual result.6 The Parliament, which had been in continual conflict with wiike elected Wilkes for five years, was now dissolved; and...