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 BritainJ. Almon, 1804 - Great Britain |
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... America , and ftates the ufe that has been made of the powers with which he was vefted by an act of the laft feffion ; that every dispatch was used to carry into effect the refolution of the Houfe of Commons , reftraining offenfive ...
... America , and ftates the ufe that has been made of the powers with which he was vefted by an act of the laft feffion ; that every dispatch was used to carry into effect the refolution of the Houfe of Commons , reftraining offenfive ...
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... America , ftood in the way of a peace , but that obftacle was removed and done away . His Majefty had declared from the throne , that offers of independence had been made to America . That a peace was much wished for , he believed , no ...
... America , ftood in the way of a peace , but that obftacle was removed and done away . His Majefty had declared from the throne , that offers of independence had been made to America . That a peace was much wished for , he believed , no ...
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... America , Great- Britain would give up nothing . America had long been in- dependent , and it was not poffible for us to make her more fo . But although , fo great a difmemberment was made , he trufted the connection between Great ...
... America , Great- Britain would give up nothing . America had long been in- dependent , and it was not poffible for us to make her more fo . But although , fo great a difmemberment was made , he trufted the connection between Great ...
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... America , it was impoffible for him , at this moment , to approve or con- denn them , because he was utterly unacquainted with them ; but he would take it for granted , that the independence , the unconditional independence of America ...
... America , it was impoffible for him , at this moment , to approve or con- denn them , because he was utterly unacquainted with them ; but he would take it for granted , that the independence , the unconditional independence of America ...
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... America , he obeyed the or- ders with a degree of pleafure , which could be equalled only by that which he felt , when he read the letter of Lord Shel- burne to Sir Guy Carleton , in which the words of the letter to Mr. Grenville were ...
... America , he obeyed the or- ders with a degree of pleafure , which could be equalled only by that which he felt , when he read the letter of Lord Shel- burne to Sir Guy Carleton , in which the words of the letter to Mr. Grenville were ...
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Page 177 - Mississippi ; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Page 177 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 176 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 177 - Superior; thence through Lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Phelipeaux, to the Long Lake ; thence through the middle of said Long Lake, and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods...
Page 171 - Articles fhall he expedited in good and due form, and exchanged in the fpace of one month, or fooner if it can be done, to be computed from the day of the •fignature of the prefent articles.
Page 177 - Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake until it arrives at the water communication between that lake and Lake Huron...
Page 176 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 177 - River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 227 - Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pensylvania, the Three Lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland...
Page 268 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.