Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes of Several of the Most Eminent Persons of the Present Age. Never Before Printed: With an Appendix Consisting of Original, Explanatory, and Scarce Papers, Volume 2T. N. Longman, and L. B. Seeley, in Pater-Noster-Row., 1797 - 410 pagina's |
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Pagina 324 - and ordinances for the public " peace, welfare, and good government of " our faid colonies, and inhabitants thereof, " as near as may be agreeable to the laws " of England, and under fuch regulations, *
Pagina 376 - pleafed to extend his royal mercy to Edward M'Quirk, found guilty of the murder of George Clarke, as appears by his royal warrant to the tenor following: GEORGE R. Whereas a doubt had arifen in our royal brcaft concerning the evidence of
Pagina 12 - but he did not write for pecuniary aid. He was a native of Ireland, of an honourable family, and of Trinity College, Dublin. He was at one time intended for the army, and at another for the bar; but private circumftances prevented either taking place. Perhaps no man
Pagina 224 - no comment. Every reader will make his own reflections upon them. I have but one to make in this place. This method of foreftalling the judgment of a court in a cafe of blood, then depending, at a time too when the judges were removeable at the
Pagina 116 - deferved no fuch recompence, at leaft on our part; fo that, in this cafe, our money is not only granted to an alien, but to an alien who has no merit to plead. If it is thought a defenfible meafure, I mould be glad to know why it was not avowed ; and why, if it is proper we
Pagina 115 - communicate a fact to this Houfe, from which it will appear, that the grant of penfions to aliens is fuppofed to be contrary to the fenfe of the nation, even by the advifers of fuch grant, and therefore not avowed, though made. There is a penfion granted nominally
Pagina 336 - King (fays the book) comes to a kingdom, by conqueft, he may change and alter the laws of that kingdom : but if he comes to it by title and
Pagina 378 - otherwife Edward Kirk, otherwife called Edward M'Quirk, and to grant him our free pardon for the murder of the faid George Clarke, of which he has been found guilty.
Pagina 342 - the contrary; for whatever conftruction is to be put upon it, {which, perhaps, may be very difficult through all the cafes to which it may be applied) it alludes to a government by
Pagina 264 - if a man, ftanding under the relation of an officer under the King, or of a perfon in whom the King puts confidence, or of a Minifter,