The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons [and of the House of Lords] Containing an Account of the Interesting Speeches and Motions ... During the 1st Session of the 14th [-18th] Parliament of Great Britain

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Sida 39 - Oh, says a silly man full of his prerogative of dominion over a few beasts of the field, there is excellent wool on the back of a wolf and therefore he must be sheared. What! shear a wolf? Yes. But will he comply...
Sida 188 - He then moved, that an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, that he will be gracioufly pleafed to give directions that there be laid before this Houle an account of the amount of his Majefty's quit-rents in the feveral provinces of North-America.
Sida 327 - By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord " High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland, &c.
Sida 39 - ... have taken from us our trade, our manufactures, and our commerce ; that have reduced us from the most flourishing Empire in the world to be one of the most compact, unenviable Powers on the face of the globe ! Oh, wonderful rights, that are likely to take from us all that yet remains...
Sida 278 - And the next day they further refolved, that an humble addrefs be prefented to his majefty, that he would be...
Sida 194 - For maintaining his majefty's forces and garrifons in the plantations and Africa, including thofe in garrifon at Minorca and Gibraltar ; and for provifions for the forces in North America, Nova Scotia,. Newfoundland, Gibraltar, the Ceded Iflands, and Africa, for the year 1778.
Sida 343 - You are hereby required and directed to proceed with the said two sloops directly to the Cape of Good Hope, unless you shall judge it necessary to stop at Madeira, the Cape de Verd or Canary Islands, to take in wine for the use of their companies; in which case you are at liberty to do so...
Sida 222 - ... almost if not altogether unexampled in modern British history. " That from long confinement, and the want of proper exercise, and other obvious causes, his bodily health is greatly impaired, and that he is now in a languishing state...
Sida 353 - Sums for the ordinary fervices are obtained upon the application of the paymafter-general himfelf : thofe for the extraordinary are directed into his hands, upon the application of others. AFTER the fupply for the pay of the army is voted by parliament, the fecretary at war fends to the pay-office the four eftablifhments for the year, which are : 2.
Sida 359 - But this ufage of office operates ftill further; it is not confined to the Paymafter General in being only, but he has been permitted after his refignation, and his reprefentatives, in cafe of his death, to retain the money of the public until the final adjuftment of his accounts by the auditors of the impreft. The average of Lord Holland's balance, from his refignation in the year 1765, to the year 1778, when the two hundred thoufand pounds were paid into the Exchequer, by his reprefentatives, was...

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