every reasonable man in the country to revert and submit to the present system; "that is, to suffer the Constitution to languish and dissolve in its corruption; or gradually to perish by decay, rather than to encounter the direct and positive dangers "of a change so violent and extreme, to which their minds would naturally unite the certainty of instant destruction." In my Speech on the Slave Trade, on the 11th of April 1796, there is the following passage: "In the lowest situations of life the People know as well as we do, that wherever " personal industry is encouraged, and property protected, there must be inequalities of possession, and consequently distinction of ranks. Then come the form and the "order, by which the substance is at once defined and preserved. Distribution and "Limitation prevent confusion, and Government by orders is the natural result of "property protected by Freedom. Take care that you adhere to it. Where the few "possess all, and the multitude have nothing, there is no Government by orders. Every thing is in extremity, and nothing in gradation."* Whether these are French principles or not, I neither know nor care. I assert that they are mine. PHILIP FRANCIS. TABLE TABLE OF CONTENTS ΤΟ VOLUME XXXIV. 1. PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES IN VIII. PROTESTS. BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. IX. REPORTS. X. PERSONS FILLING THE SEVERAL 4. Debate on the Same ........ 24 14. Debate in the Commons on the Income Duty Bill 20. Mr. Wilberforce's Complaint of Misrepresentation of the 21. Debate in the Commons on the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill Debate in the Lords on the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill 169 Debate in the Lords on the Income Duty Bill ........................................... Mr. Abbot's Motion for a Committee on the Expiring Laws... 516 11. Debate in the Commons on the Address relative to a Union 19. Debate in the Commons on the Report from the Committee of 27. 30. Debate in the Commons on Mr. Palmer's Agreement ........ 1014 Debate in the Commons on the Budget 11. Debate in the Lords on the King's Message respecting a Sub- May 9. Debate in the Commons on the Forfeiture for High Treason Debate in the Lords on the Forfeiture for High Treason Bill... 1085 Debate in the Lords on the Slave Trade Limiting Bill............ 1092 ..... Sept. 24. The King's Speech on Opening the Session Debate in the Lords on the Address of Thanks.. The King's Answer to the Commons Address .................... 1168 ..... 1186 Jan. 22... The King's Message respecting Overtures of Peace from the Consular Government of France....... 28. Debate in the Lords on the King's Message relative to the Feb. 3. Debate in the Commons on the King's Message respecting Overtures of Peace from the Consular Government of France 1242 10. Debate in the Commons on the Failure of the Expedition to 18. Mr. Abbot's Motion for a Committee on the State of the Public |