The Parliamentary Register: Proceedings and Debates, Volume 14

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Page 390 - humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he will be graciously pleased to give immediate directions for prosecuting, in the most effectual manner, the authors, abettors, and instruments of the outrages committed yesterday, in
Page 386 - grotesque appearance than the House exhibited. Some of their Lordships with their hair about 'their shoulders, others smutted with dirt; most of them as pale as the ghost in Hamlet, and all of them standing up in their several places, and speaking at the same instant. One Lord proposing to send for the guards;
Page 287 - bodies is essentially necessary, have come to a resolution, *• That it is necessary to declare, that the influence of the crown has encreased, is encreasing, and ought to be diminished.
Page 85 - the constitutional connexion between the two kingdoms, and to create new embarrassments to the public councils by division and diffidence, in a moment when real unanimity, grounded upon mutual confidence and affection, is confessedly essential to the preservation of what is left of the British empire.
Page 73 - people of Ireland, and to direct that there be prepared and laid before Parliament such particulars relative to the trade and manufactures of Great Britain and Ireland as to enable the national wisdom to pursue effectual measures for promoting the common strength, wealth, and commerce of his Majesty's
Page 1 - I meet you in Parliament at a time when we are called upon by every principle of duty, and every consideration of interest, to exert our united efforts in the support and defence of our country, attacked by an unjust and unprovoked war, and contending with one of the most dangerous confederacies that ever was formed against the Crown and people of Great Britain.

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