17 June 1811 C 3

Abdication

Idleness - Absentation

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Of the whole 658, unless those may be excepted, whose presence is by corrupt dependence rendered worse than useless, not a man who might not, not a man who would not, and ever after a warning such as this, be convicted, {can} out of his own mouth {be} convicted, of unfitness for this his trust.

It is in no other character than that of an Agent for the people that he has so much as a pretence for sitting there. Yet in that character is there any one that considers himself bound to act that would so much as endure[?] the thoughts of being made to act? - No; the Speaker excepted No, not one.

Excepting the Speaker, but not expecting even those who by money received from the hand of the King in whose other servants as well as in themselves it is their provision[?] to sit in judgment, is there a single man among them who will so much as profess to consider it his duty, bodily indisposition alone excepted, to sit every day that the House meets, and during the whole of every such day?

Is there a single one, who on the mention of any such constancy of attendance, would not pronounce the hardship of it to be intolerable?