The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
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I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.
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Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?
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My great and principal crime is my long continuance in office or, in other words, the long exclusion of those who now complain against me.
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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised.
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Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.
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