Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, During the ... Session of the ... Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the Kingdom of Great Britain ..., Volume 8R. Bagshaw, 1812 - Great Britain |
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... Talleyrand , he ob- ferences , at a time when they loudly called served , that there were fifty other and bet- for unanimity , their conduct was highly ter ways in which the intelligence which culpable . But he had no doubt that mi- it ...
... Talleyrand , he ob- ferences , at a time when they loudly called served , that there were fifty other and bet- for unanimity , their conduct was highly ter ways in which the intelligence which culpable . But he had no doubt that mi- it ...
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... Talleyrand writes somewhat in French government , appeared to be unfoun- these terms , " Probably you would desire ded . Does the hon . gent . mean to argue " to receive news from this country . I that the first letter of my late right ...
... Talleyrand writes somewhat in French government , appeared to be unfoun- these terms , " Probably you would desire ded . Does the hon . gent . mean to argue " to receive news from this country . I that the first letter of my late right ...
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... Talleyrand's reply to his first letter . To be arranged , the following were presented prevent any misappréhension that might go and read , and ordered to be taken into forth , before the papers should be laid on consideration on the ...
... Talleyrand's reply to his first letter . To be arranged , the following were presented prevent any misappréhension that might go and read , and ordered to be taken into forth , before the papers should be laid on consideration on the ...
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... Talleyrand ; dated Downing - street , Feb. 20 , 1806 . Mr. G. Johnstone , in addition to what had fallen from the hon . baronet , observed , that at the battle of Maida , general Stuart Sir ; I think it my duty as an honest actually ...
... Talleyrand ; dated Downing - street , Feb. 20 , 1806 . Mr. G. Johnstone , in addition to what had fallen from the hon . baronet , observed , that at the battle of Maida , general Stuart Sir ; I think it my duty as an honest actually ...
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... Talleyrand to Mr. Secretary Fox ; dated Paris , March 5 , 1806. Received March 19th . Sir ; I have laid your excellency's letter before his majesty . His first words , after having read it were , " I recognize here the principles of ...
... Talleyrand to Mr. Secretary Fox ; dated Paris , March 5 , 1806. Received March 19th . Sir ; I have laid your excellency's letter before his majesty . His first words , after having read it were , " I recognize here the principles of ...
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Page 885 - ... by reason of some defects in the law poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy, and when they have consumed it then to another parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds, to the great discouragement of parishes to provide stocks where it is liable to be devoured by strangers...
Page 873 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighborhood.
Page 821 - Eighty-nine; and that no Person appeared before the Committee to oppose the Bill; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made several Amendments thereunto; which they had directed him to report to the House; and he read the Report in...
Page 875 - Commons, to propose a plan for the " exaltation of the character of the labourer" by the establishment of parochial schools. On this occasion Mr. Whitbread said, " I cannot help noticing to the House that this is a period particularly favourable for the institution of a national system of education, because within a few years there has been discovered a plan for the instruction of youth which is now brought to a state of great perfection, happily combining rules by which the object of learning must...
Page 885 - Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted . . . that whereas by reason of some defects in the law poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy...
Page 889 - And also to raise weekly or otherwise (by Taxation of every Inhabitant, Parson, Vicar and other, and of every Occupier of Lands, Houses, Tithes impropriate, Propriations of Tithes, Coal-Mines, or saleable Underwoods in the said Parish...
Page 873 - These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress...
Page 15 - His Majesty has commanded us to assure you, that he is highly sensible of the advantages which must result from the measures you have adopted in the course of this session, for extending the commerce of his subjects by the removal of unnecessary and inconvenient restrictions, and from the beneficial relaxations which you have deemed it expedient...
Page 819 - London, and some miles round the same, in behalf of themselves, and the rest of the said body, was referred, That the Committee had examined the matter of the said petition ; and had directed him to report the same, as it appeared to them, to the House ; and he read the Report in his place ; and afterwards delivered it in at the clerk's table : Where the same was read ; and is as followeth ; viz.
Page 585 - ... into the money market in the latter years of its operation, as might produce a very dangerous depreciation of the value of money. Many inconveniences might also arise from the sudden stop which would be put to the application of those sums when the whole debt should have been redeemed, and from the no less sudden change in the price of all commodities, which must follow from taking off at one and the same moment taxes to an extent probably then much exceeding 30 millions.