Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 22William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1812 - Great Britain |
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... passed upon this subject was very in- teresting indeed . I will , therefore , insert it , and I beg the reader , especially if he be a young man , to make a point of bearing it in mind.- " LORD CASTLEREAGH then " moved , that the Papers ...
... passed upon this subject was very in- teresting indeed . I will , therefore , insert it , and I beg the reader , especially if he be a young man , to make a point of bearing it in mind.- " LORD CASTLEREAGH then " moved , that the Papers ...
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... passed , of course , without any business being done , but not without dreadful note of preparation . " — -On Monday morning , the day appointed by the Sheriffs for holding the election , the Guildhall , the place for holding the elec ...
... passed , of course , without any business being done , but not without dreadful note of preparation . " — -On Monday morning , the day appointed by the Sheriffs for holding the election , the Guildhall , the place for holding the elec ...
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... passed between " the Petitioner and the Gaoler , the former " was brought before Dr. Caley Illing- 66 to answer every other allegation , was " obliged to suffer that to remain wholly " uncontradicted . ( Hear , hear , hear ! ) — He had ...
... passed between " the Petitioner and the Gaoler , the former " was brought before Dr. Caley Illing- 66 to answer every other allegation , was " obliged to suffer that to remain wholly " uncontradicted . ( Hear , hear , hear ! ) — He had ...
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... passed upon the magistrates .-- I will take the very words as reported : " The Solicitor " General strongly ... passing of cen- sure on them , there must , at once , be an end of all censure and of all complaint , and of all detection of ...
... passed upon the magistrates .-- I will take the very words as reported : " The Solicitor " General strongly ... passing of cen- sure on them , there must , at once , be an end of all censure and of all complaint , and of all detection of ...
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... passed between us a long while before a dium , and resolved to adopt that sort of word was said about Mr. EATON or publication , which he might deem most Paine's Age of Reason . I hereby in- " likely to answer his views : viz . the ex ...
... passed between us a long while before a dium , and resolved to adopt that sort of word was said about Mr. EATON or publication , which he might deem most Paine's Age of Reason . I hereby in- " likely to answer his views : viz . the ex ...
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Page 249 - States to carry the same into effect, and to issue to private armed vessels of the United States commissions or letters of marque and general reprisal, in such form as he shall think proper, and under the seal of the United States, against the vessels, goods, and effects of the government of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the subjects thereof.
Page 247 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain a state of war against the United States, and on the side of the United States a state of peace toward Great Britain.
Page 215 - She carries on a war against the lawful commerce of a friend that she may the better carry on a commerce with an enemy — a commerce polluted by the forgeries and perjuries which are for the most part the only passports by which it can succeed.
Page 621 - Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security?
Page 217 - States our attention is necessarily drawn to the warfare just renewed by the savages on one of our extensive frontiers — a warfare which is known to spare neither age nor sex and to be distinguished by features peculiarly shocking to humanity. It is difficult to account for the activity and combinations which have for some time been developing themselves among tribes in constant intercourse with British traders and garrisons...
Page 215 - It has become, indeed, sufficiently certain that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain; not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies ; but as interfering with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation.
Page 59 - I have had the honour of receiving your lordship's letter of this day's date. As Lord Moira has communicated to your lordship the copy of his letter to me, I take it for granted that you have in the same manner been put in possession of my answer, which contains all that...
Page 179 - That an humble address be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to...
Page 213 - ... dear to them; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation and exposed, under the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy instruments of taking away those of their own brethren.
Page 247 - Such is the spectacle of injuries and indignities which have been heaped on our country, and such the crisis which its unexampled forbearance and conciliatory efforts have not been able to avert. It might at least have been expected that an enlightened nation...