Evenings With a Reviewer Or Macaulay And Bacon volume 1
Evenings With a Reviewer Or Macaulay And Bacon volume 1
James Spedding
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Therefore to say that those who opposed the bill on that ground were defending monopolies, is as absurd as to say that the Commons them- selves, when they demanded the release of a member ar- rested for debt, were conspiring to defraud his creditor. The arrest of a debtor, though by a process strictly legal, became in that case a breach of privilege ; the taking away of patents by act of parliament became in this case an invasion of prerogative. The passage of such a bill could 23 G EVEXIXGfi W...ITH A REVIEWER. only have issued in that kind of collision between the Com- mons and the Crown which was especially to be deprecated, and, whichever way it ended, must have created a precedent full of uncertain and dangerous consequences. This bill therefore Bacon did no doubt strenuously oppose. But did he defend the monopolies at which it was aimed ? ])id he maintain that the prerogative had in this instance been rightly used? Did he say that the House ought not to meddle ? Far from it. ' This is no stranger (he said, pointing to the bill) in this place; but a stranger in this vestment.
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