The Annual Register, Volume 115

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Edmund Burke
Rivingtons, 1874 - Books
Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.
 

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Page 42 - High Court of Justice shall be constituted as follows: -The first Judges thereof shall be the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron...
Page 211 - Not only was it far from the intention of the Emperor to take possession of Khiva, but POSITIVE ORDERS had been prepared to prevent it, and directions given that the conditions imposed should be such as could not in any way lead to a prolonged occupancy of Khiva.
Page 227 - A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered if the offence in respect of which his surrender is demanded is one of a political character...
Page 272 - I did not cry I assure you, which I believe you will, as I know you were more set upon it than I was ; the thing I am most angry at is looking so like a fool, as I shall, for having gone so often for nothing, but I don't much care, if he was to change his mind again (which can't be tho') and not give me a very good reason for his conduct I would not have him...
Page 225 - Murder (including assassination, parricide, infanticide, and poisoning), or iittempt to murder. 2. Manslaughter. 3. Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering counterfeit or altered money. 4. Forgery, counterfeiting, or altering or uttering what is forged or counterfeited or altered. 5.
Page 42 - England, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, or one of such chiefs at least, shall be part.
Page 261 - Nor, gentlemen, is this belief confined to men of comparative seclusion, since men, the greatest and most distinguished both as philosophers and as monarchs, have enforced this belief, and shown its influence by their conduct. Above all, gentlemen, need I name to you the Emperor Julian, who was so celebrated for the practice of every Christian virtue that he was called Julian the Apostle ? ' It is indisputable that nervous excitation is contagious.
Page 228 - The stipulations of the present Treaty shall be applicable to the Colonies and foreign possessions of the two High Contracting Parties.
Page 20 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.
Page 228 - High Contracting Parties in pursuance of the present Treaty should be also claimed by one or several other Powers on account of other crimes or offences committed upon their respective territories, his extradition shall be granted to that State whose demand is earliest in date.

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