The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons [and of the House of Lords] Containing an Account of the Interesting Speeches and Motions ... During the 1st Session of the 14th [-18th] Parliament of Great BritainJ. Almon, 1785 - Great Britain |
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... ment of the Nabob of Arcot's Debts - 358 The Houfe in Committee of the whole Houfe on the fame Bufinefs 392 The Evidence of Francis Hargrave , Efq . on the Weftminster Scru- 596 tiny 626 Mr. Mr. Robinfon's Statement on Lord Beauchamp's ...
... ment of the Nabob of Arcot's Debts - 358 The Houfe in Committee of the whole Houfe on the fame Bufinefs 392 The Evidence of Francis Hargrave , Efq . on the Weftminster Scru- 596 tiny 626 Mr. Mr. Robinfon's Statement on Lord Beauchamp's ...
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... ment , admit the whole in the moft flattering extent , and con- fequently that the net produce of all the taxes , including thofe of 1784 , would for the future be 3,025,000l . per quar- ter , or 12,100 , ocol . a year . To this he ...
... ment , admit the whole in the moft flattering extent , and con- fequently that the net produce of all the taxes , including thofe of 1784 , would for the future be 3,025,000l . per quar- ter , or 12,100 , ocol . a year . To this he ...
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... ment of the laft war ; -apprehenfions then , perhaps juftifi- able from the defenceless state of our dock yards . French troops would always be ftationed on the oppofite coaft of the Channel , if our wooden walls muft answer every ...
... ment of the laft war ; -apprehenfions then , perhaps juftifi- able from the defenceless state of our dock yards . French troops would always be ftationed on the oppofite coaft of the Channel , if our wooden walls muft answer every ...
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... ment , from the confidence which they had in the truth and character of the prefent Parliament . It was elected under circumstances which made it dear to Englishmen ; it had not yet forfeited the confidence of the country ; and he was ...
... ment , from the confidence which they had in the truth and character of the prefent Parliament . It was elected under circumstances which made it dear to Englishmen ; it had not yet forfeited the confidence of the country ; and he was ...
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... ment fent him any inftructions on the fubject . He knew there had been a meeting fummoned in the firft city in the empire , by special notice , for the exprefs purpose of instruct- ing their reprefentatives ; and there he was informed ...
... ment fent him any inftructions on the fubject . He knew there had been a meeting fummoned in the firft city in the empire , by special notice , for the exprefs purpose of instruct- ing their reprefentatives ; and there he was informed ...
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Page 194 - That an humble addrefs be prefented to His Majefty, " that he will be gracioufly pleafed to give directions that " there be laid before this Houfe, copies of information re«.
Page 607 - But their victim was not of the passive kind. . They were soon obliged to conclude a treaty of peace and close alliance with this rebel, at the gates of Madras.
Page 613 - That debt forms the foul putrid mucus, in which are engendered the whole brood of creeping ascarides, all the endless involutions, the eternal knot, added to a knot of those inexpugnable tape-worms which devour the nutriment, and eat up the bowels of India...
Page 593 - ... credit, (contrary to every idea of the known settled policy of England,) are on the point of being converted into a mystery of state. You are going to have one half of the globe hid even from the common liberal curiosity of an English gentleman. Here a grand revolution commences. Mark the period, and mark the circumstances.
Page 228 - Majefty, the fum fum of 1,250,000!. be raifed, by loans or exchequer bills, to be charged upon the firft aids to be granted in the next feffion of...
Page 545 - Ireland, except those of the growth, produce, or manufacture of any of the countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope to the Straits of Magellan, should be imported into each kingdom from the other reciprocally under the same regulations, and at the same duties (if subject to duties) to which they would be...
Page 548 - Indies, or any manufacture made of such article, unless in cases where a similar bounty is payable in Great Britain on exportation from thence, or where such bounty is merely in the nature of a drawback, or compensation of or for duties paid over and above any duties paid thereon in...
Page 607 - Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 51 - ... the rest. In this view of the business, he imagined, that the House would agree with him in thinking, that there were about thirty-six boroughs so decayed, as to come within the scheme of such an operation. Seventy-two would therefore be the number of members to be added to the counties, in such proportion as the wisdom of parliament might direct, and this number it was his intention to propose should be fixed and unalterable. The operation should be gradual, as he intended that the boroughs...
Page 547 - That in order to give permanency to the settlement now intended to be /established, it is necessary that no prohibition, or new or additional duties should be hereafter imposed in either kingdom on the importation of any article of the growth, product, or manufacture of the other, except such additional duties as may be requisite to balance duties on internal consumption, pursuant to the foregoing resolution.