Several Tory orators appealed to a feeling which was strong in the House, and which had, since the Revolution, prevented many laws from passing.

Whatever, they said, comes from the Peers is to be received with suspicion; and the present bill is of such a nature that, even if it were in itself good, it ought to be at once rejected merely because it has been brought down from them.

If their Lordships were to send us the most judicious of all money bills, should we not kick it to the door?
Yet to send us a money bill would hardly be a grosser affront than to send us such a bill as this.

They have taken an initiative which, by every rule of parliamentary courtesy, ought to have been left to us.

They have sate in judgment on us, convicted us, condemned us to dissolution, and fixed the first of January for the execution.