...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...

...resolution will be, " That it is the opinion of this committee, that it is mr.rssary to declare, that the influence of 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,...

...and mature deliberation that honourable House resolved : ' 1 . That it is necessary to declare, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished : 2. That it is competent to this House, to examine into, and to correct abuses in, the...

...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 the motion, moved...

...of the prerogative, but the usurpation of an Oligarchy. No man is now foolish enough to assert, that the influence of the Crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" the popular outcry which carried through the Revolution of 1 832, is that " the influence...

...vexed by all the tnrbuleuce of this reign, and by that absurd vote of the House of Com-> mons, That the influence of the crown has, increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ? Johnson. Sir, I have never slept an hour less, nor rat an ounce less meat. I would...

...favour of parliamentary reform, proceed upon the belief of Mr.Dunning's orMr.Burke's famous motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. Whether that position was true when the motion was made and carried, might with great...

...Dunning's celebrated motion in the House of Commons (which is in the recollection of all of us) that the " influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished."* Did not thus a regular vote of the House of Commons say as much as this hand-bill...

...any thing which seemed likely to be attended by this effect, because I am one of those who think that the influence of the crown "has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" but in what way Savings- Banks are liable to this charge, I am at a loss to conceive....

...resolutions were passed by the House on that ever memorable day. " 1. That it is necessary to declare, that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. " 2. That it is competent to the House of Commons to examine into, and to correct abuses...