Annual Register, Volum 88Edmund Burke 1847 |
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... land ; but while I am Minister of England I will hold office by no servile tenure ; I will hold office unshackled by any other obligation than that of consulting the public interests and providing for the public safety . " Sir R. Peel's ...
... land ; but while I am Minister of England I will hold office by no servile tenure ; I will hold office unshackled by any other obligation than that of consulting the public interests and providing for the public safety . " Sir R. Peel's ...
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... land appears to him more apparent than real ; the uncertain- ty of prices in future years would be aggravated , and the prospect of a complete free trade would be still kept in the distance ; the prospect alarming the farmer , and the ...
... land appears to him more apparent than real ; the uncertain- ty of prices in future years would be aggravated , and the prospect of a complete free trade would be still kept in the distance ; the prospect alarming the farmer , and the ...
Side 21
... land from the burdens to which they are subjected . But he will be little disposed to insist , as a member of Parliament , on what may seem to your Majesty's advisers an imprac- ticable course . The country re- quires , above all things ...
... land from the burdens to which they are subjected . But he will be little disposed to insist , as a member of Parliament , on what may seem to your Majesty's advisers an imprac- ticable course . The country re- quires , above all things ...
Side 32
... land , and which he thought capable of alleviation by useful reforms , and not by trans- ferring them to other parties . First among these burdens he placed the highway rates . They were at pre- sent administered by 16,000 local ...
... land , and which he thought capable of alleviation by useful reforms , and not by trans- ferring them to other parties . First among these burdens he placed the highway rates . They were at pre- sent administered by 16,000 local ...
Side 33
... land . benefit might be effected by in- creased draining . Mr. Pusey had proposed several schemes for the improvement of land ; but great difficulties occurred , especially VOL . LXXXVIII . Much among the owners of entailed estates , in ...
... land . benefit might be effected by in- creased draining . Mr. Pusey had proposed several schemes for the improvement of land ; but great difficulties occurred , especially VOL . LXXXVIII . Much among the owners of entailed estates , in ...
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Side 274 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean...
Side 261 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
Side 274 - River, the navigation of the said branch shall be free and open to the Hudson's Bay Company, and to all British subjects trading with the same, to the point where the said branch meets the main stream of the Columbia, and thence down the said main stream...
Side 273 - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Side 280 - We. therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude...
Side 339 - Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the...
Side 296 - Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage. Hundreds fell under this cannonade; hundreds upon hundreds were drowned in attempting the perilous passage.
Side 285 - I refer you to the report of the secretary of the navy, for a highly satisfactory account of the manner in which the concerns of that department have been conducted during the present year.
Side 296 - ... gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that victory finally declared for the British. The fire of the Sikhs...
Side 304 - Singh acknowledges the supremacy of the British Government, and will, in token of such supremacy, present annually to the British Government one horse, twelve perfect shawl goats of approved breed (six male, and six female), and three pairs of Kashmir shawls.