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Page 236 - The King grants permission to Earl Grey, and to his Chancellor, Lord Brougham, to create such a number of peers as will be sufficient to ensure the passing of the Reform Bill, first calling peers' eldest sons. — Signed, WILLIAM R., Windsor, May 17, 1832.
Page 136 - It would be dreadful indeed, if there was any power in the nation capable of resisting its unanimous desire, or even the desire of any very great and decided majority of the people. The people may be deceived in their choice of an object. But I can scarcely conceive any choice they can make to be so very mischievous as the existence of any human force capable of resisting it.
Page 438 - The clear and direct tendency of the poor laws, is in direct opposition to these obvious principles : it is not, as the legislature benevolently intended, to amend the condition of the poor, but to deteriorate the condition of both poor and rich ; instead of making the poor rich, they are calculated to make the rich poor ; and whilst the present laws are in force, it is quite in the natural order of things that the fund for the maintenance of the poor should progressively increase, till it has absorbed...
Page 395 - ... express an opinion that the three first clauses of the Bill might be omitted. He did express that opinion, and I thought, and still think, that when the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland said that any circumstance of expediency would induce him to carry on the government of that country by the ordinary law, to whatever extent he made that admission it was the duty of the Government here to agree with him. He had said he did not want the court-martial clauses; we properly omitted them. He then said he...
Page 166 - ... change occurring in the relations between them, by which the landlord would become more anxious to let his land than the tenant to hire it, was not taken into account when the probable effects of this clause on the future elections were estimated. Yet we may live to see the day, in which the tenant farmers are placed in direct opposition to the owners of the soil, and sending representatives to parliament pledged to promote the interests of the farmer as distinct from those of the landlord. So...
Page 394 - I admit that I am answerable as the proximate cause of the dissolution of the Administration, but the situation in which I was placed was not by any act of my own. I wish you would look a little at the share you have taken in the business. Without communication with one of your colleagues, with the view, I know, of facilitating business in Parliament, you desired Littleton to write to Lord Wellesley, and you wrote to him yourself, to press him to express an opinion that the three first clauses of...
Page 139 - Can there be a stronger contrast than that which exists between the beauty, the completeness, the speed, the precision with which every process is performed in our factories, and the awkwardness, the rudeness, the slowness, the uncertainty of the apparatus by which offences are punished and rights vindicated...
Page 45 - The improvement he must always desire; but as every new modification in a scheme of government and of national policy is of* great importance, and requires more and deeper consideration than the warmth, and hurry, and rashness of party conduct admit, the duty of a prince seems to require that he should render by his influence the proceedings more orderly and more deliberate, even when he approves the end to which they are directed.
Page 262 - ... clearly at the bottom of the well. This may account for Werther's readiness to give France Philippeville and Marienburg : the consent of Prussia to that cession would be purchased by the acquiescence of France in the cession of Luxembourg fortress to Prussia. But let us stave off all these nibblings: if once these great Powers begin to taste blood, they will never be satisfied with one bite, but will speedily devour their victim.
Page 356 - ... have got rid of the punishment of death, except in the case of aggravated treason and wilful murder. We shall also get rid indirectly of everything that can properly be called slavery in India. There will remain civil claims on particular people for particular services, which claims may be enforced by civil action ; but no person will be entitled, on the plea of being the master of another, to do anything to that other which it would be an offence to do to a free-man.