 | 1809 - 746 pagina’s
...having been unfortunately purchased by his employers. This man's singular talent would have deceived a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the financial state of the Nation." Drukurd's Slamford Nevis, 24. In his 64th year, the I?ev. William Bradley,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1815 - 596 pagina’s
...debt. 1 7. The consequences of this deviation may be seen in a very interesting and affecting report by a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the practice and effects of imprisonment for debt. From this report, published in the year 1792, I subjoin... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1818 - 746 pagina’s
...exclusion of their produce from the usual markets, excited particular attention ; and to remedy this evil, a committee of the house of commons, appointed to inquire into the most effectual means of affording them relief, recommended a decrease of duty upon colonial produce,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1822 - 572 pagina’s
...improved our roads, our carriages retain the form which they bore a century ago. In the year 1808, a Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the roads and the construction of wheels, carriages, &c., made three distinct reports, which... | |
 | 1849 - 700 pagina’s
...were tried. Howard visited the " Justitia," stationed at Woolwich ; and subsequently appeared before a Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the working of the Hulk experiment. He preferred the Hulks to Transportation, though in many respects the... | |
 | James Robins - 1824 - 468 pagina’s
...exclusion of their produce from the usual markets, excited particular attention ; and, to remedy this evil, a committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the most effectual means of affording them relief, recommended a decrease of duty upon colonial produce,... | |
 | 1824 - 570 pagina’s
...hope, will meet with that just disapprobation which their shameless conduct demands. There has been a Committee of the House of Commons appointed, to inquire into the state of Ireland, and to investigate the cause of the evib which afflict this country. Though those... | |
 | Alexander Mundell - 1825 - 244 pagina’s
...land. This opinion gave rise to the insertion of words in the preamble of the Bubble Act Re* Report of a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of marine insurance in 1810. t Joint stock companies for the purposes of banking, composed of... | |
 | Charles baron Dupin - 1825 - 430 pagina’s
...of twenty-eight guns. Under this impression, he proposed to give the canal a depth of twenty feet. A committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the highlands, and to devise the most efficacious means of improving their condition, took... | |
 | Robert Pearse Gillies - 1826 - 372 pagina’s
...very board itself included,) were in mortal coil* to arrange matters so as to present a fair front to a committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of its affairs. In those days, most men in office were in the habit of appropriating to themselves... | |
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I have not money enough for gunpowder," are well known. These difficulties were, however, overcome, and on the recommendation of a committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the... 
