Cobbett's Manchester lectures, in support of his fourteen reform propositions. To which is subjoined a letter to mr. O'Connell, on his speech against the proposition for the establishing of poor-laws in IrelandLondon, 1832 - 120 sidor |
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Cobbett's Manchester lectures, in support of his fourteen reform ... William Cobbett Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1832 |
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Sida 1 - ... wholly unnecessary ; to abolish the odious innovation of naval academies, and re-open the door of promotion to skill and valour, whether found in the heirs of nobles, or in the sons of the loom or of the plough ; to abolish all military Orders, and to place the navy next in honour to the throne itself. 12. To make a legal, a fixed, and a generous allowance to the King, and, through him, to all the branches and members of his family ; to leave to him the unshackled freedom of appointing all his...
Sida x - A sale of the crown lands, and an application of the money towards the liquidation of the debt: 5. An equitable adjustment with regard to the public debt, and also with regard to all debts and contracts between man and man.
Sida x - ... 2. To suspend all process for •tithes, for the same period. 3. To suspend, for the same period, all processes arising out of mortgage, bond, annuity, or other contract affecting house or land. 4. To repeal the whole of the tax on Malt, Hops, Leather, Soap, and Candles.
Sida 68 - G. 3. c. xxix., or either of them; but they have from time to time been assessed to and paid the rates for the relief of the poor and for the maintenance of the police, and the rates for lighting and cleansing the streets and other public places in the parish of St. Mary, ffliitechapel, and the rate for repairing the church of the said parish, under stat 46 G.
Sida 107 - Chief of a free people ought to be, his name held in the highest honour, and his person held sacred, as the great guardian of the people's rights. 13. To make an accurate valuation of all the houses, lands, mines, and other real property, in each county in the whole kingdom ; to impose a tax upon that property, to be paid quarterly, and in every county on the same day, and in such manner as 'to cost in the collection, or, rather, payment, not more than four hundred pounds a year in any one county...
Sida 52 - To take all the rest of the property, commonly called church property ; all the houses, lands, manors, tolls, rents, and real property of every kind, now possessed by bishops, chapters, or other ecclesiastical bodies, and all the misapplied property of corporate bodies of every sort ; and also all the property called crown-lands, or crown-estates ; including that of the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster...
Sida x - An appropriation of a part of the property of the church to the liquidation of the debt : 2. A reduction of the standing army, including staff, barracks and colleges, to a scale of expense as low as that of the army before the last war : 3. A total abolition of all sinecures, pensions, grants, and emoluments, not merited by public services : 4. A sale of the crown lands, and an application of the money towards the liquidation of the debt: 5.
Sida 93 - I was looked upon by the government people as likely to become one of their vigorous partisans. It was the custom, in those glorious days of Pitt and paper, to give to the literary partisans of the government what were called ' slices
Sida xii - ... as they are in America, mustered at stated periods; so that at any time, a hundred thousand efficient men may be ready to come into the field, if the defence of the kingdom require it. 4. To abolish tithes of every description ; to leave to the clergy the churches, the church-yards, the parsonage houses, and the ancient glebes ; and, for the rest, leave them to the voluntary contributions of the people. 5. To take all the rest of the property, commonly called...
Sida vii - decided opinion" that "for the safety of the state, the internal peace of the country, the well-being of the people, the preservation of property, and...