Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 22R. Bagshaw, 1812 - Great Britain |
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... sent off the same night ; it gets to Bristol on Wednesday morning the 24th ; the law requires four days notice on the part of the Sheriffs ; they give it , and the election comes on the next Monday . So , you see , if Mr. HUNT had been ...
... sent off the same night ; it gets to Bristol on Wednesday morning the 24th ; the law requires four days notice on the part of the Sheriffs ; they give it , and the election comes on the next Monday . So , you see , if Mr. HUNT had been ...
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... sent ministers . Now , they must very well know , that all those measures have had the decided support of the parliament . Well , then , do these his friends allow , that the parliament are the real representatives of the people , and ...
... sent ministers . Now , they must very well know , that all those measures have had the decided support of the parliament . Well , then , do these his friends allow , that the parliament are the real representatives of the people , and ...
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... sent to this " of another Magistrate , told Mr. Finnerty the inner door was closed as well " that he had heard that in other prisons , room , as the outer , and thus the usual opening " prisoners , by paying for them , could get ...
... sent to this " of another Magistrate , told Mr. Finnerty the inner door was closed as well " that he had heard that in other prisons , room , as the outer , and thus the usual opening " prisoners , by paying for them , could get ...
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... sent from it.- Mr. BROUGHAM followed He says , that he has been a Justice himself Col. Ellison , and what he said was of great in the county for many years ; that he has importance . The subject was an unfortunate made diligent inquiry ...
... sent from it.- Mr. BROUGHAM followed He says , that he has been a Justice himself Col. Ellison , and what he said was of great in the county for many years ; that he has importance . The subject was an unfortunate made diligent inquiry ...
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... sent to sure on them , there must , at once , be an distant jails and solitary rooms , where they end of all censure and of all complaint , and were denied the comfort of their friends of all detection of abuses ; for , it is in the and ...
... sent to sure on them , there must , at once , be an distant jails and solitary rooms , where they end of all censure and of all complaint , and were denied the comfort of their friends of all detection of abuses ; for , it is in the and ...
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Page 253 - 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 301 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging, (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, — except such as are born of English parents), shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament...
Page 217 - Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged without a regular investigation before a competent tribunal, would imperiously demand the fairest trial where the sacred rights of persons were at issue. In place of such a trial these rights are subjected to the will of every petty commander.
Page 629 - 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 779 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Page 219 - 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 251 - ... a solemn question, which the constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of the government. In recommending it to their early deliberations, I am happy in the assurance, that the decision will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a powerful nation.
Page 219 - Under pretended blockades, without the presence of an adequate force, and sometimes without the practicability of applying one, our commerce has been plundered in every sea; the great staples of our country have been cut off from their legitimate markets ; and a destructive blow aimed at our agricultural and maritime interests.
Page 217 - British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
Page 251 - 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...