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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 42: (search)
hts and know their own interests as well as we do; for a large paternal estate, a pension, and support in the treasury, are greater recommendations to a seat in this Assembly, than either the honesty of the heart or the clearness of the head. Gilmour invited censure on such unprecedented expressions. Conway excused them as uttered in heat. I am not conscious, resumed Saville, that I have spoken in heat; if I did, I have had time to pool, and I again say, as I said before, that this House has betrayed the rights of its constitu- Chap. XLII.} 1770. Jan. ents. In times of less licentiousness, rejoined Gilmour, members have been sent to the Tower for words of less offence. The mean consideration of my own safety, continued Saville, shall never be put in the balance against my duty to my constituents. I will own no superior but the laws; nor bend the knee to any but to Him who made me. The accusation which Saville brought against the House of Commons, was the gravest that cou