The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two Houses of Parliament, Volumen3

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Página 438 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Página 32 - ... he has received many a wound in the combat against corruption ; and the new grievance, the fresh insult, of which he complains, may inflict another scar, but no dishonour. The petition is signed by John Cartwright ; and it was in behalf of the people and Parliament, in the lawful pursuit of that reform in the representation, which is the best service to be rendered both to Parliament and people, that he encountered the wanton outrage which forms the subjectmatter of his petition to your Lordships.
Página 432 - And whereas, towards compensating the Persons at present entitled to the Services of the Slaves to be manumitted and set free by virtue of this Act for the loss of such Services, His Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland...
Página 438 - My Lords and Gentlemen, By virtue of his majesty's commission under the great seal, to us and other lords directed, and now read, we do, in his majesty's name, and in obedience to his commands, prorogue this parliament to Thursday the 22d day of August, next, to be then here holden ; and this parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thursday the 22d day of August next.
Página 434 - ... it is to the peninsula that we look with sentiments of unquestionable delight and triumph ; there the world has seen two gallant and independent nations rescued from the mortal grasp of fraud and tyranny, by British councils and British valour; and...
Página 435 - Majesty's lamented indisposition. The attention which you have paid to the public interests in the course of this Session demands my warmest acknowledgments. The splendid and signal success which has attended the commencement of the Campaign in the Peninsula, the consummate skill and ability displayed by Field Marshal the Marquis of Wellington in the progress of those operations which have led to the great and decisive Victory obtained near Vittoria, and the valour...
Página 437 - I entirely approve of the arrangements which you have made for the government of the British territories in India, and for the regulation of the British commerce in that part of the world. They appear to have been wisely framed, with a view to the circumstances which have occurred since this subject was last under the consideration of Parliament.
Página 437 - By these arrangements you have preserved in its essential parts that system of Government which experience has proved to be not less calculated to provide for the happiness of the Inhabitants of India, than to promote the interests of Great Britain ; and you have judiciously extended to the Subjects of the United Kingdom in general a participation in the commerce of Countries within the limits of the East India Company's Charter, which will, I doubt not, have the effect of augmenting the resources...
Página 32 - My lords, the Petition which I now hold for the purpose of presenting to the House, is one which I humbly conceive requires the particular attention of your lordships, inasmuch as, though signed but by a single individual, it contains statements which (if not disproved) demand most serious investigation. The grievance of which the petitioner complains, is neither selfish nor imaginary. It is net his own only, for it has been, and is still felt by numbers.
Página 434 - In our contest with America, it must always be remembered, that we have not been the aggressors. Slow to take up arms against those who should have been naturally our friends by the original ties of kindred, a common language, and (as might have been hoped) by a joint zeal in the cause of national liberty; we must, nevertheless, put forth our whole strength, and maintain with our ancient superiority upon the ocean, those maritime rights which we have resolved never to surrender.

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