Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, During the ... Session of the ... Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the Kingdom of Great Britain ..., Band 21R. Bagshaw, 1812 |
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Seite 971 - ... country under martial law; depopulate and lay waste all around you, and restore Sherwood Forest as an acceptable gift to the crown in its former condition of a royal chase, and an asylum for outlaws ? Are these the remedies for a starving and desperate populace ? Will the famished wretch who has braved your bayonets be appalled by your gibbets?
Seite 391 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Seite 969 - capitum " is to lop off a few of its superfluous heads. But even a mob may be better reduced to reason by a mixture of conciliation and firmness, than by additional irritation and redoubled penalties. Are we aware of our obligations to a mob ? It is the mob that labour in your fields and serve in your houses, — that man your wavy, and recruit your army,— that have enabled you to defy all the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair...
Seite 771 - That an humble address be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that he will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this House, a copy of the. case upon which the opinion of the attorney and solicitor-general of the date of the 24th of February last was taken.
Seite 883 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he will be graciously pleased to give directions that a monument be erected in the Cathedral Church of ST.
Seite 969 - I have traversed the seat of war in the Peninsula, I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey, but never under the most despotic of infidel governments did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country.
Seite 939 - Sir, — I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of his Excellency the...
Seite 233 - Commons has resolved again to give you the tribute of its thanks ; and I do therefore now, in the name and by the command of the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, deliver to you their unanimous thanks for your great exertions...
Seite 969 - ... they came just in time to witness the mischief which had been done, and ascertain the escape of the perpetrators, to collect the spolia opima...
Seite 967 - ... and industrious, body of the people, into the commission of excesses so hazardous to themselves, their families, and the community. At the time to which I allude, the town and county were burdened with large detachments of the military ; the police was in motion, the magistrates assembled, yet all the movements, civil and military, had led to — nothing.