The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Volume 33 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiralty adopted advert agricultural alluded amount attention bank bank of England baronet bill Brougham burthens called chancellor charge circumstances clerks Cobourg colonies committee consideration considered constitution coun danger distress duke duty economy effect England estimates exchequer expenditure expense felt foreign former France hear House increase India interest Ionian islands Ireland land learned gentleman loan Lord Castlereagh Lord Palmerston lordships majesty's government majesty's ministers malt means measure ment military establishment military force millions motion navy necessary necessity never noble earl noble friend noble lord noble marquis object observed occasion opinion parliament peace of Amiens period persons petition petitioners pledge possessions present Prince Regent principle produce property tax proposed question reduced relief respect revenue right hon royal highness salaries Scotland sion speech standing army statement taxation thought Tierney tion troops vote whole wished
Popular passages
Page 1091 - Continent renders very unlikely ; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence contrary to the natural course of things.
Page 249 - That an humble address be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to...
Page 1091 - ... great speculators broke; the middling ones lingered out a precarious existence, deprived of all means of continuing their dealings either at home or abroad ; the poorer dupes of the delusion had lost their little hoards, and went upon the parish the next mishap that befel them ; but the result of the whole has 'been much commercial distress — a caution now absolutely necessary in trying new adventures — a prodigious diminution in the demand for manufactures, and indirectly a serious defalcation...
Page 27 - That this House do resolve Itself into a Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the Distressed State of the Agriculture of the United Kingdom.
Page 1085 - ... the land that formerly grew something has been fatigued with labour, and loaded with capital, until it yielded much more ; the work both of men and cattle has been economized, new skill has been applied, and a more dexterous combination of different kinds of husbandry...
Page 1085 - The improvements in most parts of the country have been going on so visibly, that the most careless observer must have been struck by them. Not only. wastes have disappeared for miles and miles, giving place to houses, fences, and crops ; not only have even the most inconsiderable commons, the very village greens, and the little stripes of sward by the way side, been, in many places, subjected to division and exclusive ownership, and cut up into corn-fields in the rage for farming...
Page 1089 - ... removed, by their pursuits, from commercial cares. It may give the committee some idea of this disease, if I state what I know to have happened in one or two places. Not only clerks and labourers, but menial servants...
Page 1069 - An Act for the public registering of all deeds, conveyances, wills, and other incumbrances, that shall be made of, or that may affect any honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments...
Page 33 - Empire, during the last 20 years, agriculture has certainly advanced with rapid strides. The full effect of all our improvements has just been completely realized ; and two or three good harvests from this extended and improved agriculture, together with continued import, and demand reduced, have occasioned such a surplus in the market, as very obviously accounts for the first depression of the price.
Page 251 - The Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, thinks it right to...