Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Volume 23T.C. Hansard, 1830 - Great Britain |
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... relief . He could bear his testimony to the truth of the petition , but he was bound to add that he believed the pressure would speedily pass away . He would enter into further particulars did he not anticipate a better opportunity for ...
... relief . He could bear his testimony to the truth of the petition , but he was bound to add that he believed the pressure would speedily pass away . He would enter into further particulars did he not anticipate a better opportunity for ...
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... relief . He could bear his testimony to the truth of the petition , but he was bound to add that he believed the pressure would speedily pass away . He would enter into further particulars did he not anticipate a better opportunity for ...
... relief . He could bear his testimony to the truth of the petition , but he was bound to add that he believed the pressure would speedily pass away . He would enter into further particulars did he not anticipate a better opportunity for ...
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... relief from those other taxes which pressed on the industry of the country . Īn entering on an inquiry of this kind , it would be well worth while to look at the opinions entertained with respect to the distress of the labouring classes ...
... relief from those other taxes which pressed on the industry of the country . Īn entering on an inquiry of this kind , it would be well worth while to look at the opinions entertained with respect to the distress of the labouring classes ...
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... relief for the labouring classes , he only wished that those who so described it would consider the subject a little , and they would perceive that the sole ten- dency of such a depreciation would be , to benefit the debtor at the ...
... relief for the labouring classes , he only wished that those who so described it would consider the subject a little , and they would perceive that the sole ten- dency of such a depreciation would be , to benefit the debtor at the ...
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... relief of the poor in England and Wales , though mainly bearing on one particular class of the community - viz . the landed interest ought to be considered , after the deduction of that portion which would otherwise be paid as wages ...
... relief of the poor in England and Wales , though mainly bearing on one particular class of the community - viz . the landed interest ought to be considered , after the deduction of that portion which would otherwise be paid as wages ...
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Page 859 - Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the taxgatherers it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression; and though vexation is not, strictly speaking, expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it.
Page 801 - I will not join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation : the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Page 595 - ... poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society. The stationary is dull; the declining melancholy.
Page 859 - First? the levying of it may require a great number of officers, whose salaries may eat up the greater part of the produce of the tax, and whose perquisites may impose another additional tax upon the people.
Page 101 - I, sir, am neither the champion nor the critic of the Portuguese constitution. But it is admitted on all hands to have proceeded from a legitimate source — a consideration which has mainly reconciled continental Europe to its establishment...
Page 783 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he will be graciously pleased...
Page 665 - Cavendish, on the sixth, moved that the house should resolve itself into a committee to consider of that revisal.
Page 101 - It has been surmised that this measure, as well as the abdication which it accompanied, was the offspring of our advice. No such thing — Great Britain did not suggest this measure. It is not her duty nor her practice to offer suggestions for the internal regulation of foreign states.
Page 941 - Bathurst was now Lord President of the Council, one of the Tellers of the Exchequer, and Joint Clerk of the Crown. Their grandfathers were also men of high consideration. One of them for many years filled the situation of Lord High Chancellor of England, and the other was a sort of Viceroy of Scotland, holding places which produced great emoluments, and performing services which were rather equivocal. Now, that these gentlemen, gorged with...
Page 599 - ... only that this observation would apply. A general revision would point out many other articles, but the subject is one too extensive and too minute for the present occasion. The more general considerations, to which I now claim the attention of the House, are these : first, that no other country in Europe has so large a proportion of its taxation bearing directly upon the incomes of labour and productive capital...