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Rh denounced againſt meaſures authorized by the law of the land:

“ of one branch of the legiſlature, ſet up as the law of the land, being a dire uſurpation of the rights of the two other branches, and therefore a manifeſt infringement of the conſtitution:

“ money ſhamefully ſquandered and unaccounted for, and all inquiry into the cauſe of arrears in the civil liſt prevented by the miniſtry:

“Inquiry into a pay-maſter’s public accounts ſtopped in the exchequer, though the ſums unaccounted for by that pay-maſter, amount to above forty millions ſterling:

“ loans perverted to private miniſterial purpoſes:

“ of public honours and rewards to men who can neither plead public virtue nor ſervices:

“ and immorality, ſo eminently diſcountenanced by your majeſty’s royal example, encouraged by adminiſtration both by example and precept: “