 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 410 pages
...liberty be still1 to be secured to us by the laws of ourforefathers, or 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. They have become, by burgage tenure, the proprietors of the whole legislature ;... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1855 - 618 pages
...liberty be still to be secured by the laws of our forefathers, or to be laid at (he absolute mercy of a part of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary * Cobbett's Weekly Political Register. [1810. — BOOK IT. for me to describe t Should the principle,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1857 - 824 pages
...constituents, denying the right of the House of Commons to imprison without trial, and describing that body as ( a part of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary for me to describe.' The letter was voted a libel on the House, and a warrant was issued by the speaker... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1862 - 644 pages
...questioning the right of such a house to commit for breach of privilege, seeing that it consisted of "a part of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary to describe." t This description of the house of commons, at this time, and for long afterwards, wan too happy a... | |
 | British Empire - 1864 - 352 pages
...constituents, denying the right of the House of Commons to imprison without trial, and describing that body as ' a part of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary for me to describe.' The letter was voted a libel on the house, and a warrant was issued by the speaker... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1865 - 470 pages
...appealing to Magna Charta, he contrasted l " the laws of our forefathers " with the declarations of " a part of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary to describe." Mr. Lethbridge brought the letter under the notice of the House. Burdett declared that he had never... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1868 - 274 pages
...standing a siege in his Piccadilly mansion, for the heinous offence of describing his fellow-legislators as "a part of our fellow-subjects collected together by means which it is not necessary to describe." The Slave Trade had been abolished, as we have already seen ; but many English subjects continued surreptitiously... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1869 - 408 pages
...liberty be still to be secured to us by the laws of our forefathers, or 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. They have become, by burgage tenure, the proprietors of the whole legislature ;... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1874 - 1076 pages
...greatest happiness of the greatest number " as the aim of political action. In 1809 Sir Francis Burdett revived the question of Parliamentary Reform. Only...which he subsequently published, as " a part of our fellow-subject* collected together by means which it is not necessary to describe " wa? met by his... | |
 | William Chambers - 1874 - 386 pages
...constituents, denying the right of the House of Commons to imprison without trial, and describing that body as ' a part of our fellow-subjects, collected together by means which it is not necessary for me to describe." The letter was voted a libel on the house, and a warrant was issued by the speaker... | |
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Commons, in a pamphlet which he subsequently published, as " a part of our fellow-subjects collected together by means which it is not necessary to describe" was met by his committal to the Tower, where he remained till the prorogation of the Parliament. 
