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 Britain

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Page 119 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, Of the City of London...
Page 683 - ... to be the true and immediate cause of the rupture which followed. Nor can we forbear to remark that the pretences, under which his...
Page 29 - It was indeed the most absurd bigotry, in asserting the general principle, to exclude the exception ; but trade, industry and barter would always find their own level, and be impeded by regulations which violated their natural operation, and deranged their proper effect.
Page 748 - Britain ; and shall be issued at the receipt of the Exchequer to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to be by them placed to the account of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt...
Page 531 - Stanley, in a speech of great length, moved that leave be given to bring in a Bill for the...
Page 570 - From their situation and habits in life, it was an amusement better suited than to others, and their gratification claimed, he thought, the first attention. The second class, to whom a participation of this right might properly be given, were the occupiers of land, but in a more limited degree, and only on their own grounds ; lest, by too liberal an indulgence in this amusement, they might be diverted from more serious and useful occupations.
Page 832 - Hop-binds ; and for the more effectual Punishment of Persons maliciously setting on Fire any Mine, Pit, or Delph of Coal, or Cannel Coal ; and of Persons unlawfully hunting or taking any Red or Fallow Deer in Forests or...
Page 605 - Eut when the order of the day was read, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a committee of the whole Houfe, to...
Page 491 - The bill for the better regulating the duty on hats was read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fécond time to-morrow.
Page 685 - ... majesty, and to our constituents, to declare, that we see no rational hope of redeeming the affairs of the kingdom, but by the adoption of a system radically and fundamentally different from that which has produced our present calamities.

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