 | John Beresford - 1854 - 330 sider
...connections. The former brought nine, the latter five, votes against the measure. Thus .- — Lord Cole Lord Kingsborough Colonel Lowry Cole Robert King...clamour will be subsiding ; and if at the same time Lord Cormvallis could be prevailed on to take measures to put down the rebellious, who arc now so insolent... | |
 | John Beresford - 1854 - 332 sider
...connections. The former brought nine, the latter five, votes against the measure. Thus .- — VOL. II P Lord Cole Lord Kingsborough Colonel Lowry Cole Robert King...cannot be expected to give up their term for nothing. AH these, and other circumstances, have concurred to defeat you. If, however, Mr. Pitt sets out upon... | |
 | Edward Porritt - 1903 - 610 sider
...in ° Downing Street, there prevailed an opinion contrary to that of Portland. Beresford held that " those who bought their seats cannot be expected to give up their term for nothing5 "; and Colonel Littlehales, who was private secretary to Cornwallis, and concerned in the... | |
 | Edward Porritt - 1909 - 606 sider
...in "* Downing Street, there prevailed an opinion contrary to that of Portland. Beresford held that " those who bought their seats cannot be expected to give up their term for nothing2 " ; and Colonel Littlehales, who was private secretary to Cornwallis, and concerned in the... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1911 - 654 sider
...the corruptness of the occasion. As Beresford remarked with unconscious humour, the borough-mongers " cannot be expected to give up their interest for nothing;...cannot be expected to give up their term for nothing." Here he expressed the general conviction of that age, which Pitt recognized in his Reform Bill of 1785... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1924 - 1276 sider
...the corruptness of the occasion. As Beresford remarked with unconscious humour, the borough-mongers " cannot be expected to give up their interest for nothing;...cannot be expected to give up their term for nothing." Here he expressed the general conviction of that age, which Pitt recognized in his Reform Bill of 1785... | |
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Member would be liable to be put to more expense than heretofore. As to the boroughs, many of the proprietors are very poor, and have lived by the sale of them. Upon the late general election boroughs did not sell readily, and several of the proprietors... 