Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 22R. Bagshaw, 1812 - Great Britain |
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... offer you some re- marks upon the measures that have been taken to supply his place . It was announced to his supporters at Bristol , about three months ago , that he did not mean to offer himself for that city again , and MR . RICHARD ...
... offer you some re- marks upon the measures that have been taken to supply his place . It was announced to his supporters at Bristol , about three months ago , that he did not mean to offer himself for that city again , and MR . RICHARD ...
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... offered to chalk me out a big piece upon a board . I forget the way in which I vented my rage against him ; but , the offer has never quitted my memory . Yet , really , this seeins to come up to the notion of Mr. Mills : the carpenter ...
... offered to chalk me out a big piece upon a board . I forget the way in which I vented my rage against him ; but , the offer has never quitted my memory . Yet , really , this seeins to come up to the notion of Mr. Mills : the carpenter ...
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... offer any thing to the House , " but he could not avoid rising to express a wish , that the utmost calmness and " moderation might be observed in the deli- " beration . Nearly connected as he was " with a district of the country most ...
... offer any thing to the House , " but he could not avoid rising to express a wish , that the utmost calmness and " moderation might be observed in the deli- " beration . Nearly connected as he was " with a district of the country most ...
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... offering on the part of those men of Bristol who were not to be corrupted .-- The COURIER of Thursday 2d July , states , that both horse and foot soldiers had been marched into Bristol.- SIR FRANCIS BURDETT men- tioned this circumstance ...
... offering on the part of those men of Bristol who were not to be corrupted .-- The COURIER of Thursday 2d July , states , that both horse and foot soldiers had been marched into Bristol.- SIR FRANCIS BURDETT men- tioned this circumstance ...
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... offer a remark or two upon Sir Samuel's speech before I go on to the rest of the debate . He here says , ( and he speaks as a lawyer ) that the magis- irates have no right to meddle with the ma- nagement of prisoners in county jails ...
... offer a remark or two upon Sir Samuel's speech before I go on to the rest of the debate . He here says , ( and he speaks as a lawyer ) that the magis- irates have no right to meddle with the ma- nagement of prisoners in county jails ...
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Page 253 - States to carry the same into effect, and to issue to private armed vessels of the United States commissions or letters of marque and general reprisal, in such form as he shall think proper, and under the seal of the United States, against the vessels, goods, and effects of the government of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the subjects thereof.
Page 301 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging, (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, — except such as are born of English parents), shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament...
Page 217 - Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged without a regular investigation before a competent tribunal, would imperiously demand the fairest trial where the sacred rights of persons were at issue. In place of such a trial these rights are subjected to the will of every petty commander.
Page 629 - Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security?
Page 779 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Page 219 - It has become, indeed, sufficiently certain that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain; not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies ; but as interfering with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation.
Page 251 - ... a solemn question, which the constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of the government. In recommending it to their early deliberations, I am happy in the assurance, that the decision will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a powerful nation.
Page 219 - Under pretended blockades, without the presence of an adequate force, and sometimes without the practicability of applying one, our commerce has been plundered in every sea; the great staples of our country have been cut off from their legitimate markets ; and a destructive blow aimed at our agricultural and maritime interests.
Page 217 - British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
Page 251 - Such is the spectacle of injuries and indignities which have been heaped on our country, and such the crisis which its unexampled forbearance and conciliatory efforts have not been able to avert. It might at least have been expected that an enlightened nation...