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Where petitions are concerned behold how dear how jealously dear is economy to Honourable House: Gentlemen give themselves the monopoly of it. For Honourable House alone is that pure virtue made: none of it for swinish multitude. In giving expression to their sighs for relief, to save the charge of transcript, the press had been thought to be open to the two-legged swine ... Presumptuous thought!: an existing Resolution – a ready-made Resolution a Resolution mind[?] by ambiguity above the waves of controversy was created absolutely out of nothing: a Resolution forbidding without reason and against reason the application of that matchless instrument of our times[?] this which till now had been numbered among the most beneficial of all earthly purposes.

Why why was so much pretious time consumed time of the Monarch – time of both the Houses – consumed in the labour clearing away those other nuisances. For clearing the hand of government at once of all these cobwebs, one House with one hand to it might have served: one House for the execution of the plan: one head for the invention of it.