Memoirs of the life of colonel Warle; with the public spirit of 1809 as dispalyed in the patriotic proceedings |
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... influence can esche w ? Lucky is your R - 1 H -SS , That no more of ' t lights on you . All our suffering plain evinces . That we now endure their ire , Both on Generals wreak'd , and P I'm pent up , and you retire . Then let's brave ...
... influence can esche w ? Lucky is your R - 1 H -SS , That no more of ' t lights on you . All our suffering plain evinces . That we now endure their ire , Both on Generals wreak'd , and P I'm pent up , and you retire . Then let's brave ...
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... which inquiry has been made , scandalous corruptions and abuses have been detected . IX . That the exclusion of the public voice from all influence in , and the consequent corrup tion of , the Government of the Continental States , 76.
... which inquiry has been made , scandalous corruptions and abuses have been detected . IX . That the exclusion of the public voice from all influence in , and the consequent corrup tion of , the Government of the Continental States , 76.
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... influence and corruption . That the conduct of Sir Henry Carew Saint John Mildmay , Bart . our Representative in Par- liament , in supporting Mr. Wardle on that occa- sion , entitles him to our warmest approbation and thanks . That we ...
... influence and corruption . That the conduct of Sir Henry Carew Saint John Mildmay , Bart . our Representative in Par- liament , in supporting Mr. Wardle on that occa- sion , entitles him to our warmest approbation and thanks . That we ...
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... influence which holds the Crown in subjection . Our efforts : are solely directed to the rescuing of the country from those imminent perils into which it has been brought by the progress of corruption . The very word pension is odious ...
... influence which holds the Crown in subjection . Our efforts : are solely directed to the rescuing of the country from those imminent perils into which it has been brought by the progress of corruption . The very word pension is odious ...
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... influence to which we are in- debted for this lavish expenditure . But the existence of corruption is no new doctrine ; for since the Act for triennial Parliaments was passed , we have had no fewer than sixty - five Acts of Parliament ...
... influence to which we are in- debted for this lavish expenditure . But the existence of corruption is no new doctrine ; for since the Act for triennial Parliaments was passed , we have had no fewer than sixty - five Acts of Parliament ...
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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