to the general sense of the community"; he admitted that popular revolt is so much the outcome of suffering that in any dispute between government and people, the presumption is at least equal in the latter's favor.

He urged the acceptance of Grenville's bill for improving the method of decision upon disputed elections.

He made a magnificent defence of the popular cause in the Middlesex election.

He was in favor of the publication of parliamentary debates and of the voting lists in divisions.

He supported almost with passion the ending of that iniquitous system by which the enfranchisement of revenue officers gave government a corrupt reservoir of electoral support.