An anecdote is related of a member having succeeded, in Sir Thomas Maitland’s accidental absence, in having a change which he thought unimportant made upon some part of the project. Sir Thomas, on being informed of it by his ever ready secretary, returned, slippered, pantalooned, and bedgowned as he was, looked over the amendment, said a few words in condemnation or contempt of the presumption implied in it, and ordered it to be expunged from the proceedings in three most intelligible words, ‘Otez cette betise!’