The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 5J. Ballantyne and Company, 1814 - Europe |
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... present meeting , con- public body of the community of Edin- burgh , almost without exception , think it a duty incumbent upon them solemnly to declare , that , in their opinion , the pre- sent system of police is totally inadequate to ...
... present meeting , con- public body of the community of Edin- burgh , almost without exception , think it a duty incumbent upon them solemnly to declare , that , in their opinion , the pre- sent system of police is totally inadequate to ...
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... present here have been using their utmost endea- yours to learn whether politics have any connection with the present trou- bles in this neighbourhood ; we un- derstand they are convinced of the contrary . Committed for trial at the ...
... present here have been using their utmost endea- yours to learn whether politics have any connection with the present trou- bles in this neighbourhood ; we un- derstand they are convinced of the contrary . Committed for trial at the ...
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... present . After dinner was over , The Marquis of Lansdowne , after expressing the satisfaction he felt at addressing so numerous and respecta- ble a meeting of Irishmen , thought necessary , however , to state , that the exclusive ...
... present . After dinner was over , The Marquis of Lansdowne , after expressing the satisfaction he felt at addressing so numerous and respecta- ble a meeting of Irishmen , thought necessary , however , to state , that the exclusive ...
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... present dress was ordered seventeen years ago . The demand for seamen is so great , that the impress officers take nearly from all protections . The indulgence which has hitherto been granted by the Admiralty of discharging men on ...
... present dress was ordered seventeen years ago . The demand for seamen is so great , that the impress officers take nearly from all protections . The indulgence which has hitherto been granted by the Admiralty of discharging men on ...
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... present when Johnston took a watch from a gentleman . They af- terwards went to the North Bridge , and came back and chased three gen- tlemen along the South Bridge , one of them was knocked down by Gun , and M'Intosh also struck him on ...
... present when Johnston took a watch from a gentleman . They af- terwards went to the North Bridge , and came back and chased three gen- tlemen along the South Bridge , one of them was knocked down by Gun , and M'Intosh also struck him on ...
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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...