But before he has been a session in Parliament we learn that he is a Clerk of the Green Cloth or a Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe, with a comfortable salary.

Nay, we sometimes learn that he has obtained one of those places in the Exchequer of which the emoluments rise and fall with the taxes which we pay.

It would be strange indeed if our interests were safe in the keeping of a man whose gains consist in a percentage on our losses.

The evil would be greatly diminished if we had frequent opportunities of considering whether the powers of our agent ought to be renewed or revoked.

But, as the law stands, it is not impossible that he may hold those powers twenty or thirty years.