Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 17William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1810 - Great Britain |
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... ships and in esta- blishing a navy , and that , too , upon a scale of which none of us seem to have formed any idea . But , let any man cast his eye over the ports and think of the maritime means , of all sorts , that Napoleon will pos ...
... ships and in esta- blishing a navy , and that , too , upon a scale of which none of us seem to have formed any idea . But , let any man cast his eye over the ports and think of the maritime means , of all sorts , that Napoleon will pos ...
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... ship in recurring to the rule , which however occasionally mitigated in its application , Great Britain can never cease in principle to maintain . It is further to be observed , that the Order in Council of the 20th April has this ...
... ship in recurring to the rule , which however occasionally mitigated in its application , Great Britain can never cease in principle to maintain . It is further to be observed , that the Order in Council of the 20th April has this ...
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... ship , perhaps , or give them an opportunity of displaying their loyalty by enlisting into the West India Regiment . Aye ; but , if the above para- graph be correct ; if a man has actually been committed , as a felon , for having done ...
... ship , perhaps , or give them an opportunity of displaying their loyalty by enlisting into the West India Regiment . Aye ; but , if the above para- graph be correct ; if a man has actually been committed , as a felon , for having done ...
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... ship The Order does not provide for the im- itself ; that in the other case , viz . that of portant case of vessels which had sailed the Orders in Council , you are not autho- on the like faith for Dutch ports other than rized to tender ...
... ship The Order does not provide for the im- itself ; that in the other case , viz . that of portant case of vessels which had sailed the Orders in Council , you are not autho- on the like faith for Dutch ports other than rized to tender ...
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... is paid by merchants and ship - owners . Well ; but what of that ? It is money . It is paid by people under British sway . exclude from the legislature all persons of the Romish persuasion 75 ] [ 76 POLITICAL REGISTER . - Lord Castlereagh .
... is paid by merchants and ship - owners . Well ; but what of that ? It is money . It is paid by people under British sway . exclude from the legislature all persons of the Romish persuasion 75 ] [ 76 POLITICAL REGISTER . - Lord Castlereagh .
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Page 921 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Page 611 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 427 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 429 - ... and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England; and that the arduous and urgent affairs concerning the king, state and...
Page 823 - Parliament that no man, of what estate or condition that he be, should be put out of his land or tenements, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without being brought to answer by due process of law.
Page 819 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land.
Page 561 - ... with the advice of our privy council, to issue this our royal proclamation, hereby...
Page 471 - What a crowd of blessings rush upon one's mind that might be bestowed upon the country, in the event of a total change of system ! Of all monarchs, indeed, since the Revolution, the successor of George the Third will have the finest opportunity of becoming nobly popular.
Page 1031 - Parliament assembled hath the force of a law, and all the people of this nation are concluded thereby, although the consent and concurrence of the King or House of Peers be not had thereunto.
Page 781 - By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of Parliament; 2.