The United Service Journal, Part 1H. Colburn, 1835 - Military art and science |
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Page 132 - ... all other considerations should be made subordinate to the advancement of objects of such paramount importance. " As to church property in this country, no person has expressed a more earnest wish than I have done that the question of tithe, complicated and difficult as I acknowledge it to be, should, if possible, be satisfactorily settled by the means of a commutation, founded upon just principles, and proposed after mature consideration. " With regard to alterations in the laws...
Page 130 - ... may call an abuse — by abandoning altogether that great aid of government, more powerful than either law or reason, the respect for ancient rights, and the deference to prescriptive authority ; — if this be the spirit of the Reform bill, I will not undertake to adopt it. But if the spirit of the Reform bill implies merely a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining, with the firm maintenance of established rights, the correction of...
Page 493 - Accordingly he, with two or three others, went down into the hold, and closing up all the hatches, filled several pots full of brimstone and other combustible matter, and set it on fire, and so continued till they were almost suffocated, when some of the men cried out for air. At length he opened the hatches, not a little pleased that he held out the longest.
Page 129 - My acceptance of the* first office in the Government terminates for the present my political connexion with you. In seeking the renewal of it whenever you shall be called upon to perform the duty of electing a representative in Parliament, I feel it incumbent upon me to enter into a declaration of my views of public policy, as full and unreserved as I can make it, consistently with my duty as a Minister of the Crown. " You are entitled to this from the nature of the trust which I again solicit, from...
Page 113 - ... honour him through the day ; to govern your temper and your tongue ; to be faithful to your duty ; to keep yourselves unspotted from the world ; to keep your " hands from picking and stealing, and your tongues from evil speaking, lying, and slandering ;" to enable you to love all men, and to do your " duty in that state of life in which it hath pleased God to call you.
Page 132 - ... application to public measures, to indicate the spirit in which the King's Government is prepared to act. Our object will be, the maintenance of peace ; the scrupulous and honourable fulfilment, without, reference to their original policy, of, all existing engagements with . foreign powers; the support of public credit; the enforcement of strict economy, ; and the just and impartial consideration of what is due to all interests ; agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial.
Page 132 - It is unnecessary for ray purpose to enter into further details. I have said enough, with respect to general principles and their practical application to public measures, to indicate the spirit in which the King's Government is prepared to act. Our object will be the maintenance of peace, the scrupulous and honourable fulfilment, without reference to their original policy, of all existing engagements with Foreign Powers, the support of public credit, the enforcement of strict economy, and the just...
Page 130 - Bill, and the willingness to adopt and enforce it as a rule of government: if, by adopting the spirit of the Reform Bill, it be meant that we are to live in a perpetual vortex of agitation; that public men can only support themselves in public estimation by adopting every popular impression of the day, — by promising the instant redress of anything which anybody may call an abuse, — by abandoning altogether that great aid of government — more powerful than either law or reason — the respect...
Page 131 - Then, as to the great question of Church Reform ; on that head I have no new professions to make. I cannot give my consent to the alienation of Church property, in any part of the United Kingdom, from strictly ecclesiastical purposes.
Page 130 - I appeal with confidence, in denial of the charge, to the active part I took in the great question of the Currency — in the consolidation and amendment of the Criminal Law — in the revisal of the whole system of Trial by Jury— to the opinions I have professed, and uniformly acted on, with regard to other branches of the jurisprudence of the country — I appeal to this as a proof that I have not been disposed to acquiesce in acknowledged evils, either from the mere superstitious reverence for...