[129b-490]

15 April 1817

Plan cat

2 o Note?

Introd

§. Attendance

Speakers illness

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15 April 1817 Speakers illness debate

Not Chairman of Committee of Whigs and Tories

L.[?] Salary[?] what? See L d Cochranes[?] paper.

While the ink is yet wet on the paper /paper is yet wet/ comes another sample of Honourable House.

Amongst its principles of action not the least useful /congenial/ is one which may be termed, the principle of determined improvidence, or prevention-abjuring principle.

{After the horse is stolen – after and not before says the proverb shut the stable door

Bring to view a mischief propose a remedy for the prevention of it: Nay says a voice from the Treasury Bench, and in particular from the Law[?] part of it Nay but can you produce an instance in which any such thing has ever happened? what none – well then – let us hear no more of your remedy – this is not a place for theories.

A Member of Honourable House is he subject to death? O yes: for of this the proof stands upon the Journal: for this cause it is that now[?] Writs are every now and then offered to Members is he subject to bodily indisposition? Yes: for of this too, for example when alledged as an excuse for non attendance, proof may be drawn from the same authoritative source. But the Speaker – is he subject to indisposition?}