Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volumes 30-31R. Bagshaw, 1971 |
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Page 249
... Fund has been reckoned the only practicable way of relieving us of our mighty load of debt ! We have been instructed " to be- " hold with reverential awe this only hope " of the nation ! " In the House of Lords on Monday , April 12 ...
... Fund has been reckoned the only practicable way of relieving us of our mighty load of debt ! We have been instructed " to be- " hold with reverential awe this only hope " of the nation ! " In the House of Lords on Monday , April 12 ...
Page 251
Sinking Fund is superlatively absurd . It cannot reduce the debt . If it had never existed , the nation would at this time have been the whole of its amount , or 300 millions , less in debt . Instead of checking and diminishing the debt ...
Sinking Fund is superlatively absurd . It cannot reduce the debt . If it had never existed , the nation would at this time have been the whole of its amount , or 300 millions , less in debt . Instead of checking and diminishing the debt ...
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... funds . " That is to say , let part of the estates be sold and given to the fund - holders . To this I have no sort of objection , upon the principle of the Courier , namely , that " the Parliament " is the Debtor of the Fund - holder ...
... funds . " That is to say , let part of the estates be sold and given to the fund - holders . To this I have no sort of objection , upon the principle of the Courier , namely , that " the Parliament " is the Debtor of the Fund - holder ...
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to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on | 1 |
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on | 73 |
Letter XII | 105 |
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