Speeches of Lord Erskine While At the Bar volume 2
Speeches of Lord Erskine While At the Bar volume 2
Thomas Erskine
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Gentlemen, this very county furnishes a familiar instance; there are, I believe, at least thirty thousand freeholders in Lancashire, each of 314 SPEECH OF ME. EKSKINE ON THE whom has a vote for two members of parliament ; and there are two boroughs within it, if I mistake not, Clithero and Newton, containing a handful of men who are at the beck of two individuals ; yet these two little places send for themselves, or rather for these two persons, two members each, which makes four against the wh...ole power and interest of this county in parliament, touching any meas- ure, how deeply soever it may concern their pros- perity. Can there be any offence in meeting together to consider of a representation to parlia- ment, suggesting the wisdom of alteration and amendment in such a system ? Mr. Justice Heath. There can be no doubt but that a petition to parliament, for reform or any- thing else, can be no offence. Mr. Erskine. Gentlemen, I expected this inter- ruption from the learning of the judge; certainly it can be no offence, and consequently my clients can be no offenders.
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