The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia, 17. köideParbury, Allen, and Company, 1824 |
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... motion , Colonel Alexander Knox , a cadet of 1780 , was only last year pro- moted to a brigade of cavalry ; Colo- nel Henry Worsley , C.B. , and Colonel Vanrennan , also cadets of 1780 , were last year promoted to the colonelcies of ...
... motion , Colonel Alexander Knox , a cadet of 1780 , was only last year pro- moted to a brigade of cavalry ; Colo- nel Henry Worsley , C.B. , and Colonel Vanrennan , also cadets of 1780 , were last year promoted to the colonelcies of ...
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... motion to higher grades : but none have occurred to me so feasible as this very moderate application from the Off - Reckoning Fund , aided by any contribution the Directors may au- thorize . The officers designed to be thus benefited ...
... motion to higher grades : but none have occurred to me so feasible as this very moderate application from the Off - Reckoning Fund , aided by any contribution the Directors may au- thorize . The officers designed to be thus benefited ...
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... motion , which it is my intention to submit , on an early day , to the Court of Proprietors , specially summoned for that purpose . " The Hon . Proprietor then read the intended motion , as follows : " That application be made to Parlia ...
... motion , which it is my intention to submit , on an early day , to the Court of Proprietors , specially summoned for that purpose . " The Hon . Proprietor then read the intended motion , as follows : " That application be made to Parlia ...
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... motion , in pursuance of the notice which had just been read to the Court ; and , in doing so , he was per- fectly ready to avow , that he knew there were a great many gentlemen present to whom this task better belonged than to himself ...
... motion , in pursuance of the notice which had just been read to the Court ; and , in doing so , he was per- fectly ready to avow , that he knew there were a great many gentlemen present to whom this task better belonged than to himself ...
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... motion was made in Parliament , by an Hon . Gentleman , a relation of his own . Mr. Grant seconded that motion in a long and able speech , in which he expressed himself most anxious for the fullest investigation and inquiry . The ...
... motion was made in Parliament , by an Hon . Gentleman , a relation of his own . Mr. Grant seconded that motion in a long and able speech , in which he expressed himself most anxious for the fullest investigation and inquiry . The ...
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