Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 32R. Bagshaw, 1817 - Great Britain |
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... suppose , that , when the Register began to find its way throughout the kingdom to the ex- tent of between twenty and thirty thou- sand every week , that Corruption's sons after a silence of more than seven years , the corrupt ...
... suppose , that , when the Register began to find its way throughout the kingdom to the ex- tent of between twenty and thirty thou- sand every week , that Corruption's sons after a silence of more than seven years , the corrupt ...
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... suppose this to have been true . · Had I not a right to do this ? Was there any thing dishonest or base in this ? I was under no obligation to contiñue to write . The country had done nothing for me . I was in no way bound to sacrifice ...
... suppose this to have been true . · Had I not a right to do this ? Was there any thing dishonest or base in this ? I was under no obligation to contiñue to write . The country had done nothing for me . I was in no way bound to sacrifice ...
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... suppose , that that assembly must anticipate work enough without enter- taining such a scheme ; but , the scheme is a favourite with all those ( who are very numerous ) who look upon the poor as rivals in the work of tax - eating , and ...
... suppose , that that assembly must anticipate work enough without enter- taining such a scheme ; but , the scheme is a favourite with all those ( who are very numerous ) who look upon the poor as rivals in the work of tax - eating , and ...
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... Suppose a rich man enemies acknowledge that they are come were to murder his labourer , and suppose upon us , so far are they from confessing that no officer of justice would do his their former errors , that they seem , more duty ...
... Suppose a rich man enemies acknowledge that they are come were to murder his labourer , and suppose upon us , so far are they from confessing that no officer of justice would do his their former errors , that they seem , more duty ...
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... rude and so un- just as to appear to suppose , that there can exist any feeling in common between those gentlemen , and a reptile like him . Bet , this man seems to despair of legal Though not in this form , perhaps , themselves ,
... rude and so un- just as to appear to suppose , that there can exist any feeling in common between those gentlemen , and a reptile like him . Bet , this man seems to despair of legal Though not in this form , perhaps , themselves ,
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amongst believe Bill Borough Boroughmongers Botley called cause charge Cobbett Committee Corruption COURIER Debt distress duty endeavour England fact friends Fund gentlemen give Honourable House hope House of Commons House of Lords hundred HUNT JOHN GOLDSMITH justice King kingdom labour land letter liberty live London Lord Cochrane Lord Fitzwilliam Lord Milton Lord Sidmouth Lordship Magistrates means Meeting ment millions mind Ministers misery nation never Newcastle Street object opinion pamphlets paper parish Parliament peace pension persons Petition Petitioner poor Portsdown Hill pounds present prison produce proved published reason received Reform seditious Sinecures Sinecurists Sir Francis Burdett sort speech Spenceans stand suffer sure taxes thing thousand tion told Universal Suffrage vote Whig whole wish WOOLER words writings
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Page 335 - ... felony without benefit of clergy, and the offenders therein shall be adjudged felons, and shall suffer death as in case of felony without benefit of clergy.
Page 249 - But the happiness of our constitution is, that it is not left- to the executive power to determine when the danger of the state is so great, as to render this measure expedient...
Page 389 - ... if the persons so unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled, or any of them, shall happen to be killed, maimed, or hurt in the dispersing, seizing, or apprehending, or endeavouring to disperse, seize, or apprehend them, by reason of their resisting the persons so dispersing, seizing, or apprehending, or endeavouring to disperse, seize, or apprehend them, that then every such justice of the peace, sheriff, under sheriff, mayor, bailiff, head officer, high or petty constable...
Page 335 - ... to command all his majesty's subjects of age and ability to be assisting to them therein), to seize and apprehend, and they are hereby required to seize and apprehend, such persons so unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously continuing together after proclamation made as aforesaid, and forthwith to carry the persons so apprehended before one or more of his majesty's justices of the peace of the county or place where...
Page 391 - ... persons so being unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled, to the number of twelve, as aforesaid, or more, to whom proclamation should or ought to have been made if the same had not been hindered, as...
Page 69 - Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite : for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him ; Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD ; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD.
Page 293 - They have been told that parliamentary reform is no more than a halfmeasure, changing only one set of thieves for another : and that they must go to the land, as nothing short of that would avail them.
Page 333 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of king George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king.
Page 359 - Napoleon is actually in the power of England ; but he neither has been nor is in the power of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, either in fact or of right even according to the laws and customs of England, which never included, in the exchange of prisoners, Russians, Prussians, Austrians, Spaniards, or Portuguese, though united to these powers by treaties of alliance, and making war conjointly with them.
Page 393 - ... that any person who shall at any time hereafter appear, act, or behave him or herself as master or mistress, or as the person having the care, government, or management, of any...