The Life and Administration of Robert Banks, Second Earl of Liverpool, K. G., Late First Lord of the Treasury: Comp. from Original Documents, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1868 - Great Britain |
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Page 335 - Will you, to the utmost of your power, maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion as established by law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privilege* as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them?" King or queen — "All this I promise to do
Page 401 - His Majesty leaves no effort unexhausted to awaken the Spanish Government to the dangerous consequences of this apparent connivance. " His Majesty makes this communication to the House of Commons with the full and entire confidence, that his faithful Commons will afford to His Majesty their cordial concurrence and support in maintaining the faith of treaties, and in securing against foreign hostility the safety and independence of the kingdom of Portugal, the oldest ally of Great Britain.
Page 97 - ... to my enemies, even this secret tribunal acquitted me of all crime, and thereby pronounced my principal accusers to have been guilty of the grossest perjury. But it was now (after the trial was over) discovered that the nature of the tribunal was such as to render false swearing before it not legally criminal.
Page 419 - Judges should have formed an opinion adverse to that which is the result of the best consideration I have been able to give to the subject.
Page 102 - ... the decision. That your Majesty's ministers would advise these measures, if found necessary to render their prosecution successful, there can be very little doubt, seeing that they have hitherto stopped at nothing, however unjust or odious. To regard such a body as a court of justice would be to calumniate that sacred name...
Page 101 - I am to be subjected to a sentence by the parliament, passed in the shape of a law. Against this I protest, and upon the following grounds : — The injustice of refusing me a clear and distinct charge, of refusing me the names of the witnesses, of refusing me the names of the places where the alleged acts have been committed ; there are sufficiently flagrant and revolting ; but it is against the constitution of the court itself that I particularly object, and that I most solemnly protest.
Page 99 - Your court became much less a scene of polished manners and refined intercourse than of low intrigue and scurrility. Spies, bacchanalian tale-bearers, and foul conspirators swarmed in ^ those places which had before been the resort of sobriety, virtue, and honour.
Page 100 - Such mothers will see the depths of my sorrows. Every being with a heart of humanity in its bosom will drop a tear in sympathy with me. And will not the world then learn with indignation that this event, calculated to soften the hardest heart, was the signal for new conspiracies and indefatigable efforts for the destruction of this afflicted mother?
Page 103 - Majesty a statement of my wrongs, and declaration of my views and intentions. You have cast upon me every slur to which the female character is liable. Instead of loving, honouring, and cherishing me, agreeably to your solemn vow, you have pursued me with hatred and scorn, and with all the means of destruction. You wrested from me my child, and with her my only comfort and consolation.
Page 221 - Faithful to the principles which his Majesty has promulgated to the world, as constituting the rule of his conduct, his Majesty declined being a party to any proceedings at Verona, which could be deemed an interference in the internal concerns of Spain on the part of Foreign Powers.