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... Grenville , Redesdale , and Rad- stock ; Right Hon . the Speaker ; Sir John Nicoll ; Deans of Canterbury and Barking ; Archdeacon Cam- bridge ; Dr Barton ; Rev. H. H. Norris ; Rev. R. Lendon ; F. Bur- ton , Esq . M. P .; G. W. Marriot ...
... Grenville , Redesdale , and Rad- stock ; Right Hon . the Speaker ; Sir John Nicoll ; Deans of Canterbury and Barking ; Archdeacon Cam- bridge ; Dr Barton ; Rev. H. H. Norris ; Rev. R. Lendon ; F. Bur- ton , Esq . M. P .; G. W. Marriot ...
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... Lord Grenville , and afterwards paid his court successfully to ministers ; for he received letters of denisation , and very Art . I. There shall be a defensive alli- ance between his majesty the King of Prussia and his majesty the ...
... Lord Grenville , and afterwards paid his court successfully to ministers ; for he received letters of denisation , and very Art . I. There shall be a defensive alli- ance between his majesty the King of Prussia and his majesty the ...
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... Lord Wel- lesley was to be the head , it might be sufficient for me to refer to Lord Liverpool's reply , more ... Grenville , at Lord Grey's house , May 23d . Lord Wellesley stated that he had received the commands of his royal highness ...
... Lord Wel- lesley was to be the head , it might be sufficient for me to refer to Lord Liverpool's reply , more ... Grenville , at Lord Grey's house , May 23d . Lord Wellesley stated that he had received the commands of his royal highness ...
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Walter Scott. 1 Letter of Lord Grey to Lord Wel- greatest respect ,. Grey and Grenville ; and I feel much indebted for the communication ac- companying them . pro- The proposed consideration of the catholic claims , and the adoption of a ...
Walter Scott. 1 Letter of Lord Grey to Lord Wel- greatest respect ,. Grey and Grenville ; and I feel much indebted for the communication ac- companying them . pro- The proposed consideration of the catholic claims , and the adoption of a ...
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... lord , your obliged and obedient humble servant , VASSAL HOLLAND . Camelford House , May 23d . No. 8 . Memorandum from Lords Grey and Grenville , May 24th , in reply to Lord Wellesley's Minute , No. 4 . May 24th , 1812 In such a moment ...
... lord , your obliged and obedient humble servant , VASSAL HOLLAND . Camelford House , May 23d . No. 8 . Memorandum from Lords Grey and Grenville , May 24th , in reply to Lord Wellesley's Minute , No. 4 . May 24th , 1812 In such a moment ...
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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 298 - 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 - Strangford, remarked, that his lordship " would hardly he believed upon his oath, certainly not upon his honour, at the Old Bailty." Lord Strangford obtained a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the editor for a libel.
Page 300 - It has become, indeed, sufficiently certain that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain; not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies ; but as interfering with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation.
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 199 - PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
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 277 - One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two ; to permit such Persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file the same on or before the First Day of Hilary Term One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two ; and to allow Persons to make and file such Affidavits, although the Persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their annual Certificates.
Page 302 - States; and it has since come into proof that at the very moment when the public minister was holding the language of friendship and inspiring confidence in the sincerity of the negotiation with which he was charged a secret agent of his Government was employed in intrigues having for their object a subversion of our Government and a dismemberment of our happy union.
Page 303 - ... 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.