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... Pensions , which recent events have clearly proved can only be effectually accomplished by a Reform of the Representation of the People in Parlia ment . THE MIDDLESEX MEETING , AT THE MERMAID , HACKNEY . On Tuesday , April 11 , at one o ...
... Pensions , which recent events have clearly proved can only be effectually accomplished by a Reform of the Representation of the People in Parlia ment . THE MIDDLESEX MEETING , AT THE MERMAID , HACKNEY . On Tuesday , April 11 , at one o ...
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... members of a majority who voted for Ministers on the last division , there were seventy - eight placemen and pensioners , besides a number of military officers , who were dependent for promotion . He calcu lated , 67.
... members of a majority who voted for Ministers on the last division , there were seventy - eight placemen and pensioners , besides a number of military officers , who were dependent for promotion . He calcu lated , 67.
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... , who had gone with the stream , but were now ready to do them justice . The danger of reform had been talked of ; but for his part he could see no danger in it , except " 9 to Placemen and Pensioners . The people of Eng land 80.
... , who had gone with the stream , but were now ready to do them justice . The danger of reform had been talked of ; but for his part he could see no danger in it , except " 9 to Placemen and Pensioners . The people of Eng land 80.
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William Hamilton Reid. to Placemen and Pensioners . The people of Eng land would not adopt the new - fangled doctrine ... pensions were derived , were not held so ? Another set were likely to be injured by Reform , -tax - gatherers ...
William Hamilton Reid. to Placemen and Pensioners . The people of Eng land would not adopt the new - fangled doctrine ... pensions were derived , were not held so ? Another set were likely to be injured by Reform , -tax - gatherers ...
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... Pensioners then present , voted against the said proposition . That , in the Act of Parliament , commonly called the BILL of Rights , it is declared , “ That the election of members of Parliament ought to be free , ” and , in the same ...
... Pensioners then present , voted against the said proposition . That , in the Act of Parliament , commonly called the BILL of Rights , it is declared , “ That the election of members of Parliament ought to be free , ” and , in the same ...
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Page 120 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or received a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 140 - Ministers, in the election of Members of Parliament ; that, by the same great standard of our liberties, it is declared that the election of Members of Parliament ought to be free...
Page 119 - And in this manner, according to the present state of the representation, two hundred and ninetyfour of your honourable members are chosen, and, being a majority of the entire house of commons, are enabled to decide all questions in the name of the whole people of England and Scotland.
Page 121 - That so long as the People shall not be fairly represented, corruption will increase; our debts and taxes will accumulate ; our resources will be dissipated ; the native energy of the People will be depressed ; and the country deprived of its best defence against foreign foes. 12. That to remedy the great and glaring evils of which we complain, it is not necessary to have recourse...
Page 55 - Wednesday Morning, Feb. 1st, 1809." " Dear Sir, " I yesterday saw Mr. Wardle ; he " had a letter yesterday from your " friend Glass, begging him not to take " any business in hand, where his name " is mentioned : and he asks for you "also. He was Tutor to Wardle. "Now Mr. Wardle assures me, by " every thing honourable, that if you " speak candidly. and fairly to the fact