The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, 48. köideEdmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1808 |
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... parliament , to enable the au- ditor of the exchequer , if appointed to the place of a lord of the trea- sury , to accept of that office without forfeiting his place of auditor ; and that this might be done without in- jury to the ...
... parliament , to enable the au- ditor of the exchequer , if appointed to the place of a lord of the trea- sury , to accept of that office without forfeiting his place of auditor ; and that this might be done without in- jury to the ...
Page 94
... parliament passed the most salutary acts to se- cure the independence of the judges , if the allurement of so high and honourable a situation as a place in the cabinet , could be used as an enticement to detach them from their proper ...
... parliament passed the most salutary acts to se- cure the independence of the judges , if the allurement of so high and honourable a situation as a place in the cabinet , could be used as an enticement to detach them from their proper ...
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... parliament , and therefore accessible to the same * Mr. Fox . channels of influence , as if he were a member of the cabinet . Was not , " it was asked , " a scat in the privy council an object of ambition aiso , and was not the ...
... parliament , and therefore accessible to the same * Mr. Fox . channels of influence , as if he were a member of the cabinet . Was not , " it was asked , " a scat in the privy council an object of ambition aiso , and was not the ...
Page 97
... parliament . It had not even a fixed or permanent existence , but consisted of those privy counsellors , who , each time it was convened , re- ceived a summons to attend its meet- ings . It was a mistake to suppose , that the cabinet ...
... parliament . It had not even a fixed or permanent existence , but consisted of those privy counsellors , who , each time it was convened , re- ceived a summons to attend its meet- ings . It was a mistake to suppose , that the cabinet ...
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... parliament have tried to get at the advisers too , how have they proceed- ed ? Look at the mode , and that mode alone will sustain the argu- ment , that the cabinet counsellors are not legally known . For in the addresses presented on ...
... parliament have tried to get at the advisers too , how have they proceed- ed ? Look at the mode , and that mode alone will sustain the argu- ment , that the cabinet counsellors are not legally known . For in the addresses presented on ...
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Page 630 - Treaty signed this day. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto their seals.
Page 651 - The rights of a neutral to carry on commercial intercourse with every part of the dominions of a belligerent permitted by the laws of the country (with the exception of blockaded ports and contraband of war) was believed to have been decided between Great Britain and the United States by the sentence of...
Page 398 - Secondly, the British fleet under my command could never have returned the second time to Egypt, had not Lady Hamilton's influence with the Queen of Naples caused letters to be wrote to the Governor of Syracuse, that he was to encourage the fleet being supplied with everything, should they put into any port in Sicily. We put into Syracuse, and received every supply ; went to Egypt, and destroyed the French fleet.
Page 687 - Stuart, and of the letter which your excellency did me the honour to write to me on the...
Page 386 - I beg leave to oiler you my most sincere thanks for the honour you have done me in drinking my health, and for the very flattering manner in which that honour has been conferred.
Page 630 - The present separate article shall have the same force and value as if it were inserted, word for word, in the treaty signed this day, and shall be ratified at the same time. In faith whereof we, the undersigned, by virtue of our respective full powers, have signed the present separate article, and affixed thereto the seals of our arms.
Page 355 - And the trial by rack is utterly unknown to the law of England; though once when the dukes of Exeter and Suffolk, and other ministers of Henry VI, had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture ; which was called in derision the duke of Exeter's daughter, and still remains in the tower of London; (0) where it was occasionally used as an engine of state, not of law, more than once ,in the reign of Queen...
Page 648 - Yet the same practices are renewed in the present war and are already of great amount. On the Mobile, our commerce passing through that river continues to be obstructed by arbitrary duties and vexatious searches. Propositions for adjusting amicably the boundaries of Louisiana have not been acceded to. While, however, the right is unsettled, we have avoided changing the state of things by taking new posts or strengthening ourselves in the disputed territories, in the hope that the other power would...
Page 627 - Majesty, for granting an Aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax to be raised in. Great Britain...
Page 834 - I have eat and drank, and conversed, and sat up all night, with Fox in England ; but it never has happened, perhaps it never can happen again, that I should enjoy him as I did that day, alone, from ten in the morning till ten at night.