The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 5J. Ballantyne and Company, 1814 - Europe |
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Page 41
... exportations were first to be made from France , before any importation from Eng- land should be admitted . On this subject several applications have been made to the Board of Trade by the merchants interested in the commerce with ...
... exportations were first to be made from France , before any importation from Eng- land should be admitted . On this subject several applications have been made to the Board of Trade by the merchants interested in the commerce with ...
Page 42
... exportation shall have been made , conformably to the conditions prescribed and made known by government . With respect to the staple com- modities of France , such as wine and brandies , no alteration has taken place . TRIAL OF THE ...
... exportation shall have been made , conformably to the conditions prescribed and made known by government . With respect to the staple com- modities of France , such as wine and brandies , no alteration has taken place . TRIAL OF THE ...
Page 65
... exportation of grain under various ports of the kingdom , forbid- any pretext whatever . 9th . - OUTRAGE . - Last night the family of Colonel Campbell , the com- manding officer of the Leeds district , was thrown into very serious alarm ...
... exportation of grain under various ports of the kingdom , forbid- any pretext whatever . 9th . - OUTRAGE . - Last night the family of Colonel Campbell , the com- manding officer of the Leeds district , was thrown into very serious alarm ...
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... exportation of sugar from Great Bri- tain ; and for suspending the counter- vailing duties and bounties on sugar , when the duties imposed by an act of the 49th year of his present majesty shall be suspended ; and for continu- ing so ...
... exportation of sugar from Great Bri- tain ; and for suspending the counter- vailing duties and bounties on sugar , when the duties imposed by an act of the 49th year of his present majesty shall be suspended ; and for continu- ing so ...
Page 277
... exportation , without payment of the duty of ex- cise chargeable thereon ; and to trans- fer the custody of spirits so warehou- sed , from the commissioners of cus- toms and port duties in Ireland , and their officers , to the ...
... exportation , without payment of the duty of ex- cise chargeable thereon ; and to trans- fer the custody of spirits so warehou- sed , from the commissioners of cus- toms and port duties in Ireland , and their officers , to the ...
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Page 49 - I am to acquaint you, that his royal highness the prince regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, to approve and confirm the finding -and sentence of the court.
Page 300 - British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
Page 57 - Attorney-General moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the editor of the...
Page 157 - Our said Chancellors respectively, for causing the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, who are to serve in the said Parliament, to be duly returned to, and give their attendance in, Our said Parliament ; which writs are to be returnable on Thursday the thirtieth day of April next.
Page 305 - ... or views of other powers, and preserving a constant readiness to concur in an honorable re-establishment of peace and friendship, is a solemn question which the constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of the Government. In recommending it to their early deliberations, I am happy in the assurance that the decision will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a powerful nation.
Page 225 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants ; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of this realm.
Page 301 - ... American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations, against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels, in a situation where no laws can operate, but the law of nations, and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong...
Page 374 - Humanity may in this case require that the freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast into the home market, as to deprive all at once many thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence.
Page 301 - Against this crying enormity, which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if committed against herself, the United States have in vain exhausted remonstrances and expostulations...
Page 206 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of 'His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...