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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... most remarkable LETTERS and PAPERS ; of the most material EVIDENCE , PETITIONS , & c . laid before and offered to the HOUSE , DURING THE SECOND SESSION of the SIXTEENTH PARLIAMENT . OF GREAT BRITAIN . VOL . XVIII . LONDON :: Printed for ...
... most remarkable LETTERS and PAPERS ; of the most material EVIDENCE , PETITIONS , & c . laid before and offered to the HOUSE , DURING THE SECOND SESSION of the SIXTEENTH PARLIAMENT . OF GREAT BRITAIN . VOL . XVIII . LONDON :: Printed for ...
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... most refpectable affemblies , in which all business ftood fufpended , till the powers of the court , and the authority of every individual member was inquired into . This he prefumed to be a leading principle in the conftitution of ...
... most refpectable affemblies , in which all business ftood fufpended , till the powers of the court , and the authority of every individual member was inquired into . This he prefumed to be a leading principle in the conftitution of ...
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... most honourable and candid mode of acting , fairly to ftate his opinion , and to fpecify the point to which his objection would be directed . The right honourable W. W. Grenville owned himfelf much Grenville . obliged to the gentlemen ...
... most honourable and candid mode of acting , fairly to ftate his opinion , and to fpecify the point to which his objection would be directed . The right honourable W. W. Grenville owned himfelf much Grenville . obliged to the gentlemen ...
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... most , viz . the amount of the quarter ending April 5 , 1785 , he declared he thought fufficiently fan- guine ; but even taking it by that medium , the utmost pro- duce to be expected being only equal to the expenditure of the peace ...
... most , viz . the amount of the quarter ending April 5 , 1785 , he declared he thought fufficiently fan- guine ; but even taking it by that medium , the utmost pro- duce to be expected being only equal to the expenditure of the peace ...
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... most serious difcuffion and confideration of Parliament . The national treasure had been greatly exhaufted by the late unfortunate war.Economy in all the public departments became highly expedient ; but , to neglect the most effential ...
... most serious difcuffion and confideration of Parliament . The national treasure had been greatly exhaufted by the late unfortunate war.Economy in all the public departments became highly expedient ; but , to neglect the most effential ...
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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.