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Page 413 - ... event of a total change of system. Of all monarchs, indeed, since the revolution, the successor of George the Third will have the finest opportunity of becoming nobly popular.
Page 359 - ... grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same.
Page 955 - A grant of this kind, if given, ought to be given upon the urgency of the case ; but how was the urgency of the case to be ascertained by a committee? He therefore moved that an address be presented to his majesty, " praying that he will be graciously pleased to appoint a commission to inquire into the opportunities of religious worship, and into the means of religious instruction afforded to the people of Scotland, and especially to the poorer classes of the community, whether they belong to the...
Page 73 - An Act to facilitate the inclosure and improvement of commons and lands held in common, the exchange of lands, and the division of intermixed lands ; to provide remedies for defective or incomplete Executions, and for the non-execution of the Powers of general and local Inclosure Acts ; and to provide for the revival of such Powers in certain cases.
Page 713 - ... of meeting possible demands upon them, and by the community at large, either directly from the Bank, or indirectly through the former channels, for the purpose of hoarding, from the dread of some imaginary or contingent danger. In such a crisis, every reduction in the amount of Bank paper is so far from checking the drain, that it aggravates the general distress ; because the gold which is taken out of the Bank, instead of being substituted in circulation for the notes withdrawn from it, is for...
Page 713 - The consequences of sudden alarm cannot be measured ; they baffle all ordinary calculation. Cash is then withdrawn, not because the circulation is excessive, but by the country banks and town bankers, for the purpose of meeting possible demands upon them, and by the community at large, either directly from the bank, or indirectly through the former channels, for the purpose of hoarding, form the dread of some imaginary or contingent danger.
Page 915 - I will venture to say, that if all the other crimes which the human race has committed, from the creation down to the present day, were added together in one vast aggregate, they would scarcely equal, I am sure they could not exceed, (he amount of guilt which has been incurred by mankind, in connexion with this diabolical Slave Trade.
Page 445 - An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Merchant Seamen and for keeping a Register of Seamen...
Page 547 - It is contended that there are such circumstances and that they are these : That the property was taken in a state of peace, and that the proprietors are now become British subjects, and consequently that this property could not be considered as the property of an enemy, either at the time of capture or adjudication. Now, with respect to the first of these pleas, it must be admitted, that alone would not protect them, because the Court has, without any exception, condemned all other property of Dutchmen...
Page 345 - Poor 4 , and for want of a due provision of the Regulations of Relief and Employment in such parishes or places where they are legally settled, which doth enforce many to turn incorrigible rogues, and other...