| James Robins - 1824 - 514 pages
...Notwithstanding this great majority, Lord Chatham, on the 1st of February, proposed a bill, under the title of " A Provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." This bill, which comprehended a vast extent of matter, and seemed to require much separate discussion,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 780 pages
...Fehruary, he hrought in the outline of a hill entitled, " A provisional act for settling the trouhles in America, and for asserting the supreme legislative...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." This proposition also miscarried ; and indeed it is ohvious, that no measure short of an ahandonment... | |
| William Jones - 1825 - 452 pages
...from Boston was rejected by the house, lord Chatham renewed his conciliatory exertions, by proposing " a provisional act for settling the troubles in America, and for asserting the supreme authority and superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." The debate upon this bill was... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 540 pages
...presenting to the house, soon after, a bill, containing his favorite plan, " for settling the troubles, and for asserting the supreme legislative authority,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." The great outlines of this plan, were, in the first place, a general declaration, that the colonies... | |
| David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 pages
...from Boston was rejected by the house, lord Chatham renewed his conciliatory exertions, by proposing " a provisional act for settling the troubles in America, and for asserting the supreme authority and superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." In introducing this measure... | |
| Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 606 pages
...conciliatory schsine, brought into the house of lords the outlines of a bill, under the title of " A provisional act for settling the troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies ;" but it was rejected by a majority of 64 to 32, without being allowed to lie on the table. A joint... | |
| John Towill Rutt - 1831 - 450 pages
...propose Lord North's pacific plan ;lf but, before the time of their meeting, * See supra, p. 21 1. f " For settling the troubles in America, and for asserting...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." It was "rejected, (Feb. 1, 1775,) by 64 to 32, without being allowed to lie on the table." Amer. Ann.... | |
| Library company of Philadelphia - 1835 - 458 pages
...Philadelphia, 1775. 1071, Q.. 1. Plan, offered by the earl of Chatham to the house of lords, entitled, A provisional act for settling the troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies. 1775. P. 312, 2. & 644, Q,. 9. Common sense; in nine conferences between a British merchant and a candid... | |
| 1835 - 224 pages
...congress was rejected, as coming from an illegal assembly. Lord Chatham presented a bill, entitled, " A provisional Act for settling the troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." According to form, it was merely ordered to lie upon the table. Lord North pursued measure after measure... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - 1835 - 364 pages
...and permanent adjustment ; and this he presented on the twenty-first of February under the form of a provisional act for settling the troubles in America,...and for asserting the supreme legislative authority of Great Britain over her colonies : he prefaced it with a short introductory speech, and concluded... | |
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