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Dispensing Power
In conclusion, my Lord, I am inclined to think Your
Lordship will find the following charges, against the Duke
of Portland, but too well established. —
1. That he has not only assumed, but concurred in the
exercise of, a dispensing power, by advancing positions tending
to warrant him in defeating — and defeating accordingly — the
the sole object of the Act of 1794, by which a Penitentiary
establishment was required to be set on foot: and, in so doing,
has been guilty of an illegal exercise of legislative power, amounting
in its effects to the repeal of an imperative law
of Parliament.
2. The he has assumed and exercised the power
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