The vindictive privileges of the House reviewed and illustrated
-First over their own Members-Punishments for con-
tempt-Instances of naming by the Speaker-Reprimand
from the chair-Further punishment-Committals to the
custody of the Serjeant, and to the Tower-Examples—
The sentences of the Long Parliament disgraced by
grievous partiality-Instances of infliction of penalty after
the Revolution-Members sometimes, but rarely, sus-
pended from attending-The more favourite remedy, their
extreme act of senatorial power, the sentence of expulsion
-Its necessity asserted-To be exercised with peculiar
caution-The principle well explained in the discussion on
the expulsion of Wilkes-First precedent in the reign of