.Men have 1 >(.'<' 11 on polled 1 I’m in tlic British House of Commons for some vory od.l reasons. ;um>n «jc tin' oddest lioill<r tlio ollonce ol writing it pamphlet on ‘•Tlio Po.-sihility of Avoiding Dentil." Commercial fraud. however. is flic basis of most of the ox pulsions. A Iruitlul period for these Parliamentary exciteuionts followed iniinodiatoly upon the I)iirstiilyr of the South Sea Buhhlo. ( hanoellor of tin* loxeho(|ucr Aitshihie h;im.selt 101 l under the order. Ho was sent to the Tower- without a division - and ordered to refund fraudulent trains of a (piartor of a million. A whole hatch of South Sea directors, two of thorn baronets. were accused at the Mar of the House, within locked doors, ol' having laid “a train of the deepest villainy and fra.nd that hell ever contrived to ruin a nation.” Thev were all expelled.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3128, 31 July 1922, Page 8
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