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... civil list , of call- ing the attention of the house to the arrears due from the dutchy of Cornwall to the prince of Wales , as his distinct and inalienable right . He stated , that from 1762 to 1783 , the years of the prince's minority ...
... civil list , of call- ing the attention of the house to the arrears due from the dutchy of Cornwall to the prince of Wales , as his distinct and inalienable right . He stated , that from 1762 to 1783 , the years of the prince's minority ...
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... civil list . I thought that 120,000l . a year was liberal , but not extravagant . Why then did I suggest to the house , and sup- port the proposition , that this should be reduced to 50,000l . by applying the remainder to the payment of ...
... civil list . I thought that 120,000l . a year was liberal , but not extravagant . Why then did I suggest to the house , and sup- port the proposition , that this should be reduced to 50,000l . by applying the remainder to the payment of ...
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... civil list establishment for life . I know there are many persons who doubt the propriety of such a cus- tom . I have at my leisure consi- dered the question , and I am clearly of opinion , that our ances- tors were right in giving a civil ...
... civil list establishment for life . I know there are many persons who doubt the propriety of such a cus- tom . I have at my leisure consi- dered the question , and I am clearly of opinion , that our ances- tors were right in giving a civil ...
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... civil list . If you give a prince a nominally limited esta- blishment , and at the same time afford him a hope that you will also pay his debts , you place him in a situation of running into great ex- penses , to defray which he must ...
... civil list . If you give a prince a nominally limited esta- blishment , and at the same time afford him a hope that you will also pay his debts , you place him in a situation of running into great ex- penses , to defray which he must ...
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... civil list , will be when the house shall be enabled to form a judgment as to the circum- stances by which the debt has been created . Till then I am not pre- pared , as a member of parliament , to give any opinion other than an ...
... civil list , will be when the house shall be enabled to form a judgment as to the circum- stances by which the debt has been created . Till then I am not pre- pared , as a member of parliament , to give any opinion other than an ...
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Page 828 - Far flash'd the red artillery. But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained snow; And bloodier yet the torrent flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. 'Tis morn ; but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy.
Page 828 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 829 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry. Few, few shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet ; And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 827 - Lochiel, Lochiel ! beware of the day ; For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal ; 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Page 826 - Glenullin ! whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watchfire, all night at the gate. A steed comes at morning ; no rider is there ; But its bridle is- red with the sign of despair. Weep Albin ! to death and captivity led ! Oh weep ! but thy tears cannot number the dead : For a merciless sword on Culloden shall wave, Culloden ! that reeks with the blood of the brave.
Page 826 - Companionless bearing destruction abroad ; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high ! Ah, home let him speed, — for the spoiler is nigh ! Why flames the far summit? Why shoot to the blast Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast ? 'Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel, the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements...
Page 127 - These two companies were afterwards united and consolidated into one, under the title of the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies.
Page 827 - Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the bloodhounds that bark for thy fugitive king. Lo ! anointed by Heaven with the vials of wrath, Behold, where he flies on his desolate path ! Now in darkness and billows, he sweeps from my sight; Rise, rise ! ye wild tempests, and cover his flight!
Page 832 - Yes, at the dead of night, by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep...
Page 710 - By his father he was descended from the Robertsons of Gladney in the county of Fife ; a branch of the respectable family of the same name, which has, for many generations, possessed the estate of Struan in Perthshire. He was born in 1721, at Borthwick (in the county of...