The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two Houses of Parliament, Volume 2 |
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Page 463 - I do therefore, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, hereby give you notice, that I shall, at or soon after the expiration of one calendar month from the time of your being served with this notice, cause a writ of summons to be sued out of Her Majesty's...
Page 115 - Walcheren, with an army of about 15,000 men, did, on that day, make an official report on the state of the island, the extent of force required effectually to guard it, the nature and condition of its defences, and the number of men then sick and unfit for duty; representing, that after such his exposition, His Majesty's ministers would be the best judges of the propriety or possibility of keeping the island ; and adding, that the advantages must be great, indeed, which could compensate...
Page 203 - ... upon the decision of this question, — a question of no less importance than this : whether our liberty be still to be secured by the laws of our forefathers, or be to lie at the absolute mercy of a part' of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary for me to describe...
Page 321 - ... read to the House, which he did, to the following effect : — " That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, that he be graciously pleased to give immediate directions...
Page 350 - Your voice may come with more force; may command greater respect; and, I am not without hope, that it may prove irresistible, if it proclaim to this House of Commons in the same tone as the tongues of our ancestors proclaimed to the Kings of old, "Nolumus Leges Angliae Mutari""; or, in our own more clear and not less forcible language; "The Laws of England Shall Not Be Changed.
Page 185 - No such decision however, could, in the present instance, be ,i : ii • i . iy or dispassionately pronounced. As a member of that House, therefore* who, since he had the honour of a seat in it, had never been influenced by any feelings of private attachment, or party interests — who had uniformly, on all occasions, and under all circumstances, given his vote to the best of his judgment, and according to the dictates of his conscience, with a view to the common interests of the country — who...
Page 508 - ... practices, at the bare mention of which the speaker of your honourable house declared ' that our ancestors would have started with indignation,' and the committal of Sir Francis Burdett to prison, enforced by military power, are circumstances •which render evident the imperious necessity of an immediate reform in the representation of the people. " We therefore most earnestly call upon your honourable house to restore to us our representative, and, according to the notice he has given, to take...
Page 37 - ... and to reduce the salaries of such as were executed by deputy to the sum for which the service was performed, with an allowance for the additional responsibility; — all to be done after the present interest in these offices had expired.
Page 343 - ... fanciful ideas of majesty, and tricked out in the trappings of royalty, think privilege and protection beneath their dignity, assume the sword of prerogative, and lord it equally over the king and the people.
Page 115 - February last, and on that day, 217 officers, and 11,269 men, were reported sick. "8. That the expedition to the Scheldt was undertaken under circumstances which afforded no rational hope of adequate success, and at the precise season of the year when the malignant disease which has proved so fatal to His Majesty's brave troops was known to be most prevalent ; and that the advisers of this ill-judged enterprise are, in the opinion of this House, deeply responsible for the heavy calamities with which...