Excerpt from Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. Member of Parliament for the City of Bristol: On Presenting to the House of Commons (on the 11th of February, 1780) A Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament, and the Oeconomical Reformation of Civil and Other Establishments

Mr. Speaker,

I Rise, in acquittal of my engagement to the house, in obedience to the strong and just requisition of my constituents, and, I am persuaded, in conformity to the unanimous withes of the whole nation, to submit to the wisdom of parliament, "A plan of reform in the constitution of several parts of the public ?conomy."

I have endeavoured; that this plan mould include in its execution, a considerable reduction of improper expence; that, it mould effect a conversion of unprofitable titles into a productive estate; that, it should lead to, and indeed almost compel, a provident administration of such sums of public money as must remain under discretionary trusts; that, it mould render the incurring debts on the civil establishment (which must ultimately affect national strength and national credit) so very difficult, as to become next to impracticable.

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