Niles' National Register, Volume 11816 Containing political, historical, geographical, scientifical, statistical, economical, and biographical documents, essays and facts: together with notices of the arts and manu factures, and a record of the events of the times. |
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Page 32
... France with native produce will be freely every reason to believe that he would not live many admitted - but vessels ... French courts of admiralty considered the Berlin and Milan decrees as abrogated , rendered null and void , since the ...
... France with native produce will be freely every reason to believe that he would not live many admitted - but vessels ... French courts of admiralty considered the Berlin and Milan decrees as abrogated , rendered null and void , since the ...
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... orders cut off the poor boy's legs with a cominon case when the French decrees were revoked . knife , and sawed the bones with a large carpenter's saw , and bound up the stumps in the best manner he could . The boy happily survived this ...
... orders cut off the poor boy's legs with a cominon case when the French decrees were revoked . knife , and sawed the bones with a large carpenter's saw , and bound up the stumps in the best manner he could . The boy happily survived this ...
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... orders in council on fell a prey to the flames ; and , in consequence , a mense magazines of goods , particularly of cotton , proof being adduced that the French decrees have ceased to have effect . It appears from a late Lon - great ...
... orders in council on fell a prey to the flames ; and , in consequence , a mense magazines of goods , particularly of cotton , proof being adduced that the French decrees have ceased to have effect . It appears from a late Lon - great ...
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138 unjust orders and decrees ? -And have not political parties occasionally acknowledged and applauded The What New Spanish Constitution ... French influence ? Have we not reason king cause them to be executed . They enjoy the to suspect ...
138 unjust orders and decrees ? -And have not political parties occasionally acknowledged and applauded The What New Spanish Constitution ... French influence ? Have we not reason king cause them to be executed . They enjoy the to suspect ...
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... decrees , when we have restored the hundreds of vessels captured under the ... French on the 13th of August , after the besieged our last accounts . It is ... French , including 350 officers - state for 1500 persons were sick in the ...
... decrees , when we have restored the hundreds of vessels captured under the ... French on the 13th of August , after the besieged our last accounts . It is ... French , including 350 officers - state for 1500 persons were sick in the ...
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Page 13 - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, cannot properly be represented in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Page 84 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Page 13 - It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other ; that, therefore, the exercise of legislative power, in several colonies, by a council appointed, during pleasure, by the crown, is unconstitutional, dangerous, and destructive to the freedom of American legislation.
Page 14 - Also, that the keeping a standing army in several of these colonies, in time of peace, without the consent of the legislature of that colony in which such army is kept, is against law.
Page 13 - All and each of which the aforesaid Deputies, in behalf of themselves and their constituents, do claim, demand, and insist on, as their indubitable rights and liberties; which cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without their own consent, by their Representatives in their several Provincial Legislatures.
Page 12 - Britain, that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain. II. That his Majesty's liege subjects in these colonies are entitled to all the inherent rights and liberties of his natural born subjects within the kingdom of Great Britain.
Page 373 - Resolved, That the Governor of this State be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing report and resolutions to the President of the United States, to the Executives of the several States, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.
Page 12 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives. IV. 'That the people of these colonies are not, and, from their local circumstances, cannot be represented in the House of Commons in Great Britain.
Page 14 - ... described in the said act, out of the realm, to be indicted and tried for the same in any shire or county within the realm. Also the three acts passed in the last session of parliament, for stopping the port and blocking up the harbour of Boston, for altering the charter and government of Massachusetts-Bay, and that which is entitled, " An act for the better administration of justice, &c.
Page 12 - British colonies on this continent ; having considered as maturely as time will permit the circumstances of the said colonies, esteem it our indispensable duty to make the following declarations of our humble opinion respecting the most essential rights and liberties of the colonists, and of the grievances under which they labor, by reason of several late acts of parliament.