The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Volume 24 |
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... British possessions in that quarter , and at the same time secure the greatest advantages to the com- merce and revenue of his Majesty's do- minions . • " I have derived great satisfaction from the success of the measures which have ...
... British possessions in that quarter , and at the same time secure the greatest advantages to the com- merce and revenue of his Majesty's do- minions . • " I have derived great satisfaction from the success of the measures which have ...
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Great Britain. Parliament. vitally interwoven with the best interests of the British nation . We had , indeed , done much in Spain : he was most willing to admit it ; but , he would ask , what still remained to be done ? And that ...
Great Britain. Parliament. vitally interwoven with the best interests of the British nation . We had , indeed , done much in Spain : he was most willing to admit it ; but , he would ask , what still remained to be done ? And that ...
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... British government could not concede to the pretensions of America without throw- ing into her hands the trident of the main . It would not avail ministers to repeat the assertions of those who expressed such sanguine opinions as to the ...
... British government could not concede to the pretensions of America without throw- ing into her hands the trident of the main . It would not avail ministers to repeat the assertions of those who expressed such sanguine opinions as to the ...
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... British government . As to the equality in that quarter , which the noble marquis of our means to the end in view , our gal- had said was so inadequately supplied ? lant commander in the peninsula had Why , that we had , on the 25th of ...
... British government . As to the equality in that quarter , which the noble marquis of our means to the end in view , our gal- had said was so inadequately supplied ? lant commander in the peninsula had Why , that we had , on the 25th of ...
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... British army employed against them . Wherever the British troops were employed , whether in Europe or in America , they never failed to display that bravery for which they were always distinguished . They re- quired nothing but ...
... British army employed against them . Wherever the British troops were employed , whether in Europe or in America , they never failed to display that bravery for which they were always distinguished . They re- quired nothing but ...
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Page 767 - Parliament, take into its most serious consideration, the state of the laws affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland, with a view to such a final and conciliatory adjustment as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the United Kingdom, to the stability of the Protestant establishment, and to the general satisfaction and concord of all o classes of his Majesty's subjects.
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