Lives of the Lord Chancellors And Keepers of the Great Seal of ..., volume 7
Lives of the Lord Chancellors And Keepers of the Great Seal of ..., volume 7
Baron John Campbell Campbell
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Let Minis- ters do as they please in this or any other House. As a member of parliament I never will give my vote for making public what, according to all the rules of policy, propriety, and decency, ought to be kept secret." — '* However^ * says the •parliamentary History, " this did not stifle the laugh, which con- tinued for some time" ' Lord North was frightened, and, stand- ing more in awe of his Attorney-General than of his colleagues in the other House, he thought it best still to oppose... the motion, and it was rejected by a majority of 178 to 80.* We have no detailed account of any other speech of Thur- A D 1778 ^^^ respecting America while he remained a mem- ber of the House of Commons, but we know that his tone remained unaltered, and that when disasters began to multiply he imputed them all to the Ministers who had re- pealed the Stamp Act, and to the Opposition leaders, who paralysed the enei^es of the oountiy by their spurious patriotism — ^insisting that, as the " rebels " had had recourse to arms, warlike measures of more vigour could alone be ex- pected to decide the controversy.^ Before closing my accoimt of his career as a representative .
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