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, 1804 - Great Britain |
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Page 291 - ... to be diftributed into prizes, for the benefit of the proprietors of the fortunate tickets in the faid lottery, which...
Page 324 - February 27th, in the house of commons, that an humble address be presented to his majesty, that the farther prosecution of offensive war on the continent of North America, for the purpose of reducing the revolted, colonies to obedience by force...
Page 361 - from the moment when he should make any terms with " one of them, he would rest satisfied to be called the most " infamous of mankind : he could not for an instant " think of a coalition with men, who in every public and " private transaction, as Ministers, had shewn themselves "• void of every principle of honour and honesty : in the " hands of such men he would not trust his honour, even ','•for a minute*.
Page 428 - That a ftarnp duty of fix-pence be charged upon every piece of vellum or parchment, or fheet or piece of paper, upon which any inland bill of exchange, promiflbry note, or other note payable otherwife than upon demand, ihall Ъе ingrofled...
Page 324 - America, for the purpose of reducing the revolted colonies to obedience by force, will be the means of weakening the efforts of this country against her European enemies; tends, under the present circumstances, dangerously to increase the mutual enmity, so fatal to the interests both of Great Britain and America ; and by preventing an happy reconciliation with that country, to frustrate the earnest desire, graciously expressed by his majesty, to restore the blessings of public tranquillity.
Page 203 - Jau ; the enemies of either fhall be regarded as the enemies of the other two Powers, and the friends of either be treated as the friends of all; and in cafe any troubles fhould arife, or any enemies invade the countries under the government of either of the contracting parties, the other two fhall give no countenance or...
Page 292 - October next, in refpeft of the fum to be paid on account of the faid lottery; and that all fuch perfons as...
Page 453 - ... at the expense of reason was never more strikingly illustrated than in the argument of Sir James Marriott, the Admiralty Judge, who gravely insisted, in the House of Commons, that England "had an undoubted right to tax America, because she was represented by the members for the County of Kent, of which the thirteen provinces were a part or parcel, for in their charters they were to hold of the manor of Greenwich in Kent." 3 The whole pretension had been scouted by the indignant eloquence of Mr....
Page 256 - Commons, that the war on the continent of North America may no longer be pursued for the impracticable purpose of reducing the inhabitants of that country to obedience by force...
Page 203 - Carnatic (who was a party to the treaty) were to be always ready to send two battalions of sepoys, and six pieces of artillery manned by Europeans...