The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two Houses of Parliament, Volume 1

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Page 210 - English love their constitution the better ; to cling to it with more fondness ; to hang round it with truer tenderness. Every man feels, when he returns from France, that he is coming from a dungeon to enjoy the light and life of British independence.
Page 284 - I must tell you, that some conditions, even of this peace, essential to the security and trade of Great Britain, are not yet duly executed, and the performance of the whole may be looked upon as precarious, until we...
Page 199 - An ignorant observer may see two armies, and may say there is no war, because there is no battle ; yet one of them may make such movements as to compel the other to surrender without striking a blow. " Of the commercial talents of Buonaparte, I can be supposed to know but little ; but bred in camps, it cannot be imagined that his commercial knowledge can be very great ; and, indeed, if I am rightly informed, he is proceeding in the old plan of heavy duties and prohibitions. But he would go a shorter...
Page 371 - Bofton," which was read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fecond time on Monday next.
Page 197 - ... that we feel ourselves perfectly secure. I have heard instances, sir, where mounting wooden guns upon a fort has produced the same security as if there had been real ones. But unluckily, in this instance, for us, by our constitutional form of proceeding, our whole force must be known : we cannot pass upon an enemy wooden guns, and an army at Brentford. If we vote no force, an enemy will know we have none. " But have no arms, throw away your guns,
Page 210 - Sir, that he is an instrument in the hands of Providence to make us more liberal in our political differences, and to render us determined, with one hand and heart, to oppose any aggressions that may be made upon us.
Page 282 - Refolutions were then put and carried ; and the Houfe being refumed, the Report was ordered to be received on Monday the ijth.
Page 384 - The clause was negatived and the report was read, the resolutions agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, if then engrossed.
Page 241 - Bill brought in, read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fecond time on Monday.
Page 348 - I have been actuated by a sincere disposition for the maintenance of peace. It is, nevertheless, impossible for me to lose sight of that established and wise system of policy by which the interests of other states are connected with our own ; and I cannot, therefore, be indifferent to any material change in their relative condition and strength. My conduct will be invariably regulated by a due consideration of the actual situation of Europe, and by a watchful solicitude for the permanent welfare...

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