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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... right honourable friend had advised . Mr , Burke . Mr. Burke faid , he agreed perfectly with the right ho nourable gentleman , that it was right to conform to ancient ufage , but that the right honourable gentleman had used a word of a ...
... right honourable friend had advised . Mr , Burke . Mr. Burke faid , he agreed perfectly with the right ho nourable gentleman , that it was right to conform to ancient ufage , but that the right honourable gentleman had used a word of a ...
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... right honourable gentleman had relied too much on grounds , that would , when examined minutely , be found to fail him . To multiply by four , Mr. Sheridan faid , was certainly no very difficult mode of calculation , but he could not ...
... right honourable gentleman had relied too much on grounds , that would , when examined minutely , be found to fail him . To multiply by four , Mr. Sheridan faid , was certainly no very difficult mode of calculation , but he could not ...
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... right honourable gentleman , he obferved , had ftated , that 190.000l . was to be deducted from the three millions and fixty - fix thousand pounds , the amount of the produce of the taxes for the quarter , ending April 5 , 1785 , the ...
... right honourable gentleman , he obferved , had ftated , that 190.000l . was to be deducted from the three millions and fixty - fix thousand pounds , the amount of the produce of the taxes for the quarter , ending April 5 , 1785 , the ...
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... right honourable gentleman had given him pleasure ; but the right honourable gentleman muft allow him to fay , that several parts of his speech had not fo well pleafed him . Mr. Fox then went into an examination of the different mediums ...
... right honourable gentleman had given him pleasure ; but the right honourable gentleman muft allow him to fay , that several parts of his speech had not fo well pleafed him . Mr. Fox then went into an examination of the different mediums ...
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... honourable gentleman on the other fide of the House . With regard to the right honourable gentleman's not being as for- ward or as ready as he ought to be in propofing new taxes or new burdens , if fuch were neceffary for the fupport of ...
... honourable gentleman on the other fide of the House . With regard to the right honourable gentleman's not being as for- ward or as ready as he ought to be in propofing new taxes or new burdens , if fuch were neceffary for the fupport of ...
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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.