The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Volume 35

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Page 135 - Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Page 941 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 11 - I continue to receive from foreign powers the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country ; and I have the satisfaction of believing, that the differences which had unfortunately arisen between the court of St.
Page 173 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Page 837 - House has met before that day, or will meet on the day of the issue), issue his warrant to the clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for electing another member in the room of the member whose seat has so become vacant.
Page 739 - The heir-presumptive of the throne was supposed to be implicated in the conspiracy, and foreign powers were ready with money and troops to assist in the subversion of our constitution in Church and State. Yet at this time did the Lords and Commons present for the royal assent this very Bill of Habeas Corpus, which for less dangers you are now about to suspend. We talk much — I think a great deal too much — of the wisdom of our ancestors. I wish we would imitate the courage of our ancestors. They...
Page 11 - I regret to be under the necessity of informing you, that there has been a deficiency in the produce of the Revenue in the last year : but I trust that it is to be ascribed to temporary causes ; and I have the consolation to believe, that you will find it practicable to provide for the Public Service of the Year, without making any addition to the burthens of the People, and without adopting any measure injurious to that system by which the Public Credit of the Country has been hitherto sustained.
Page 841 - I knew him only within the walls of the House of Commons. And even here, from the circumstance of my absence during the last two sessions, I had not the good fortune to witness the later and more matured exhibition of his talents ; which (as I am informed, and can well believe) at once kept the promise of his earlier years; and opened still wider expectations of future excellence. " But I had seen enough of him to share in those expectations, and to be sensible of what this House and the country...
Page 11 - I rely with the utmost confidence on your cordial support and co-operation, in upholding a system of law and government, from which we have derived inestimable advantages, which has enabled us to conclude, with unexampled glory, a contest...
Page 11 - I have directed the estimates for the current year to be laid before you. They have been formed upon a full consideration of all the present circumstances of the country, with an anxious desire to make every reduction in our establishments which the safety of the empire and sound policy allow.

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