...exposed to a •struggle, and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:" and Mr. Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported by numbers....

...retrenchment of the expenditure told that his influence was on the wane (April, AD 1780). On Dunning's motion, "that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," the minister was left in a minority. In July the parliament was prorogued, then suddenly dissolved...

...reading of a motion of Mr. Fox's in Parliament, by which he carried it as the resolution of the House, ' That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished.'* But he could not get them to do anything upon this motion. They would come to no specific or operative...

...to beggary. The House would act in this case as the British House of Commons once did. They voted, " that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." But they had never acted up to this resolution, or done anything upon it. In the same way, the gentlemen...

...beggary. The House would act in this case as the British House of Commons o>nce did. They voted, " that the influence of th,e Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." But they had never acted up to this resolution, or done anything upon it. In the same way, the gentlemen...

...to beggary. The House would act in this case as the British House of Commons once did. They voted, " that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." But they had never acted up to this resolution, or done anything upon it. In the same way, the gentlemen...

...inhabitants the most industrious and well-conditioned in Europe ; loud denunciations that the power of the crown " had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" lamentations on the evidently approaching extinction of the liberties of England, under the combined...

...Crown had no power in this country, he (Mr. Osborne) agreed with him. The famous resolution of 1780, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to decrease, could not be moved now. There had been a shuffle of the cards since. Tho interest of the...

...inhabitants the most industrious and well-conditioned in Europe ; loud denunciations that the power of the crown " had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished;" lamentations on the evidently approaching extinction of the liberties of England, under the combined...

...former by 210 to 162. The latter by 203 to 118. } Dunning's famous Resolution on the 6th of April, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. It was carried by 233 to 215. § On the 10th of April, when Dunning's motion for securing the independence...