text:  And why had he not the means? The extravagance and profligacy of his Government had deprived him of them; his exchequer was empty; and had he or they the boldness or the virtue to propose what has been demonstrated to have been the only mode of meeting the exigency an income-tax? In vain therefore may his lordship and his friends declaim in the ensuing session and with our bombardment of China in his ears say "that is _my_ thunder