Rich men would have tried to invest their acquisitions in some form in which they could lie closely hidden and could be speedily removed.

In no long time it would have been found that of all financial resources the least productive is robbery, and that the public had really paid far more dearly for Duncombe's hundreds of thousands than if it had borrowed them at fifty per cent.
These considerations had more weight with the Lords than with the Commons.

Indeed one of the principal uses of the Upper House is to defend the vested rights of property in cases in which those rights are unpopular, and are attacked on grounds which to shortsighted politicians seem valid.

An assembly composed of men almost all of whom have inherited opulence, and who are not under the necessity of paying court to constituent bodies, will not easily be hurried by passion or seduced by sophistry into robbery.

As soon as the bill for punishing Duncombe had been read at the table of the Peers, it became clear that there would be a sharp contest.