{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1815/apr/12", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1815/apr/12/escape-of-buonaparte-from-elba", "section": "escape-of-buonaparte-from-elba", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! on the Opposition benches.", "preceding_text": "neral condition of France. To this statement he should only say, that the plea of this minister furnished a proof of the want of that due precaution and foresight to which he had already referred; while he had no hesitation in asserting, that it completely proved the general incapacity of ministers; and this was the answer he would give to the noble earl's contemptuous mode of expressing himself. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1815/apr/12", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1815/apr/12/escape-of-buonaparte-from-elba", "section": "escape-of-buonaparte-from-elba", "cue_text": "a laugh.", "preceding_text": "as he apprehended that the greater part of these diamonds were out of France, it would follow from the English version of the article alluded to, that England being a party to this Treaty, if it were to be fulfilled, these diamonds should be made good to France, and therefore we might happen to find in the next budget the proposition of a grant to buy a new crown and sceptre for Buonaparté "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1815/apr/12", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1815/apr/12/escape-of-buonaparte-from-elba", "section": "escape-of-buonaparte-from-elba", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "the grant of those States to the wife and son of Napoleon. The legitimate heir to those duchies was living, and had as good a claim to his States as the sovereign of any other State in Europe. He was not an adherent of those who held that at the termination of a conflict, avowedly instituted for the support of the existing powers of Europe, those States only were to be respected who were powerful "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1815/apr/12", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1815/apr/12/escape-of-buonaparte-from-elba", "section": "escape-of-buonaparte-from-elba", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "living, and had as good a claim to his States as the sovereign of any other State in Europe. He was not an adherent of those who held that at the termination of a conflict, avowedly instituted for the support of the existing powers of Europe, those States only were to be respected who were powerful [hear, hear!] and that the others were to be thrown into the consolidated fund of spoliation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1815/apr/12", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1815/apr/12/escape-of-buonaparte-from-elba", "section": "escape-of-buonaparte-from-elba", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "he rapid conclusion, that no protection whatever was to be afforded against that event—that because protection was difficult and important, that he would not protect us. It had not been said that instruction had been given to any one commander, but it had been said, that there was some understanding with the captain of a frigate. He had never heard, however, that that understanding was understood—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/apr/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/apr/27/motion-relating-to-the-transfer-of-genoa", "section": "motion-relating-to-the-transfer-of-genoa", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! from the Opposition benches.", "preceding_text": "y fell into the hands of the captors. This was decisive upon the principle of the case. Now, in the establishment of the Provisional Government, lord William Bentinck had not made the pledges with which he was charged; nor would the arguments which had been drawn from his proclamations have been at all thought of or produced, had it not been for the speeches and insinuations of gentlemen opposite—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1815/jun/08", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1815/jun/08/roman-catholic-question", "section": "roman-catholic-question", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "aims would make Ireland strong—he meant strong for the support of this country. However warmly he might have spoken, at any time, in bringing this subject forward, he thanked God he bore enmity to no man; and if he had, either in that House or elsewhere, thrown out any thing that might have given offence, he could now truly and conscientiously declare, that it was not the result of premeditation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1815/jun/08", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1815/jun/08/roman-catholic-question", "section": "roman-catholic-question", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "sdom and discretion of the Legislature. Besides, those Resolutions went to an extent from which his mind turned with abhorrence, that of shaking the Protestant establishments of this country to their foundation; and had they come before their lordships in the shape, either as resolutions, or as digested into a bill, no 679 consideration upon earth should have induced him to give them his support. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/14/separate-charges", "section": "separate-charges", "cue_text": "A laugh", "preceding_text": "pronounced? Having now been recognized by the nation as Emperor, his cause became united with that of the nation. The right hon. gentleman had told them that in some parts of France there were suppressed murmurs against his authority. However much he might admire the budget of the right hon. gentleman, he had no doubt that even it would be received with suppressed murmurs in many parts of England—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/14/separate-charges", "section": "separate-charges", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! from the Ministerial benches.", "preceding_text": "rest which would be obtained from holding Government securities. The plan of Mr. Pitt was now abandoned. If ministers should not succeed in their project, France would be justified in waging eternal war with this country. The insolent manner in which we conducted ourselves in every question, made us very generally hated throughout Europe, and was greatly injurious to the interests of the country.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/16/irish-budget", "section": "irish-budget", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ovement. The inland navigation of Ireland had been one of the favourite objects of the Irish Parliament: it had been bequeathed to the care and protection of Britain as one of its last acts; and he should always, in whatever character he stood there, press upon the House of Commons that there was no improvement which took place in Ireland, that would not be beneficial to England as well as to her—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/16/irish-budget", "section": "irish-budget", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "their wishes had been met by an anxious concurrence both of the Executive Government and of Parliament. He might hope that that station might add not a little to the commercial prosperity of the second city of the empire. But if, on that dangerous coast—if, in the night of tempest, it were the means of saving human life, those who promoted its establishment, would find themselves more than repaid "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/16/irish-budget", "section": "irish-budget", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ry and to the tenantry of Ireland could call for attention, and he professed the willingness and the pleasure with which he should contribute any humble efforts of his to amend the grand-jury laws, and to preserve their principle, though he should reform their practice: and he was sensible of the confidence which so many of his countrymen had reposed in him in 873 asking him to undertake the task—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/16/irish-budget", "section": "irish-budget", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "qually to my country and the Crown. I shall be accused, perhaps, justly, of presumption, if I attempt to express on this occasion, all that I feel; but I had rather appear presumptuous, than ungrateful. I am deeply sensible of the indulgence which the House have at all times shown me; and I hope, Sir, that the favour which has been shown me by the committee this night, I have not too much abused.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/16/irish-budget", "section": "irish-budget", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "he liberality with which they have received those measures which it has been more than once my painful duty to adopt. I hope my right hon. friend may receive the same support: I am convinced he will receive it—he will deserve it, Sir, infinitely more; but at all events, he may expect it from the generosity of the people of Ireland, from that fairness which always interprets justly fair intentions—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/16/irish-budget", "section": "irish-budget", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " receive the same support: I am convinced he will receive it—he will deserve it, Sir, infinitely more; but at all events, he may expect it from the generosity of the people of Ireland, from that fairness which always interprets justly fair intentions—[hear, hear!] and above all from that public spirit, which far more than legislative acts can do, has strengthened our connexion with Britain—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/16/irish-budget", "section": "irish-budget", "cue_text": "Repeated cheers from all sides of the House.", "preceding_text": "may expect it from the generosity of the people of Ireland, from that fairness which always interprets justly fair intentions—[hear, hear!] and above all from that public spirit, which far more than legislative acts can do, has strengthened our connexion with Britain—[hear, hear!]—that spirit which has cemented the compact that unites us, and which I trust will preserve it for ever.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/16/irish-budget", "section": "irish-budget", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "was convinced, and he avowed it without hesitation or reserve, that the only rational plan of education in Ireland, was one which should be extended impartially to children of all religious persuasions—one which did not profess to make converts—one which, while it imparted general religious instruction, left those who were its objects to obtain their 879 particular religious discipline elsewhere— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/21/motion-respecting-corporal-punishment-in", "section": "motion-respecting-corporal-punishment-in", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ion of the country that made its natives so sturdy and high-minded, that it was absolutely necessary that these noble qualities should be flogged out of them by the cat-o-nine-tails before they made good soldiers; but surely the noble lord would not persist in an argument, the tendency of which was to show that the nearer a man approached to divinity, the more fit it was to treat him like a beast—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/30/duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "section": "duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "nt itself, but from the manner in which it had been brought before them; for what, he would ask, were the circumstances, under which the House were now called upon to vote an additional income to the duke of Cumberland? There had been no previous congratulation on his Royal Highnesses marriage; and he felt persuaded, that no part of the country regarded it as an auspicious or desirable occurrence—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/30/duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "section": "duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ould be of a more public nature, when it remained uncontradicted that Her Majesty had intimated a determination not to receive the wife of the duke of Cumberland at Court? If there existed any blame in the agitation of this question; if there was any appearance of slander on the royal persons who were interested in it, the whole of that blame and that slander came from the other side of the House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/30/duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "section": "duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "to be permitted to reside in this country. For his part, he did not think it likely that his Royal Highness would reside here; and, indeed, there had been a kind of official intimation, that he was expected to live abroad. If, therefore, he was to reside out of the country, his present income was quite sufficient, and under these circumstances he should certainly oppose the Bill in all its stages—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/30/duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "section": "duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "led upon, in this instance, to state his opinion upon it. Upon such an event it was usual to apply to the House for a vote of congratulation; but that custom was deviated from on this occasion, and that deviation betrayed something of which he could not approve. Such a deviation, indeed, warranted a suspicion that those even who supported this Bill did not think the marriage worthy of approbation—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/30/duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "section": "duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! on the Ministerial side", "preceding_text": "d such a marriage sanctioned, where, he would ask, was the House to draw a line upon any marriage contracted by a member of the Royal family, however improper that marriage might be? He did not wish to draw any invidious comparisons, but he confessed that he heard with satisfaction the suggestion of the hon. member for Bristol, as to the propriety of granting some reward to the Commander-in-chief—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/30/duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "section": "duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " the hon. member for Bristol, as to the propriety of granting some reward to the Commander-in-chief—[Hear, hear! on the Ministerial side]. As Parliament had acted so liberally and so justly towards the duke of Wellington for conducting our brave army to such glorious triumphs, surely some consideration was due to the merit of him under whose care that army was formed for great achievements—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/30/duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "section": "duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ments—[Hear, hear!] The duke of York had, for a series of years, been training our army; and such was his skill and firmness, such his candour and good-nature, as to deserve general approbation. It was a fact, indeed, that this illustrious person had not, throughout his command, been engaged in any dispute with a single officer, one 1068 only excepted, who was lately a member of that House—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/30/duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "section": "duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "s. § Mr. Whitbread began by observing, that the latter part of the speech of the hon. member on the other side of the House was totally irrelevant to the motion under consideration. No one, however, he admitted, could review the late events without giving due praise to the Commander-in-chief, who had placed the army in such a state of efficiency as to achieve the most 1069 brilliant exploits—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/jun/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/jun/30/duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "section": "duke-of-cumberlands-establishment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "He had taken the pains to inquire into those reports, and he had never heard any satisfactory reason for the aspersions that had been cast upon the duke of Cumberland. He would even ask the hon. gentlemen who had indulged in them, whether the nature of the information which they received was sufficient to justify the attempt to degrade that illustrious individual in the estimation of the country?—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/mar/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/mar/06/petitions-respecting-the-corn-laws", "section": "petitions-respecting-the-corn-laws", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "d unanimous meeting had never been assembled, than that at which the present petition was agreed to. He entirely concurred in the sentiments stated in that petition. He believed that the measure now in progress through the House, was substantially a 10 measure having no other effect but that of raising a considerable revenue from the consumers of bread for the purpose of raising the rents of land—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/mar/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/mar/06/petitions-respecting-the-corn-laws", "section": "petitions-respecting-the-corn-laws", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "nt, and they now claimed its protection. Mr. Baring said, it seemed to be held out by those who favoured the present Bill, that the agriculturists were all on its side. Now, he would maintain, for he had had communications from various respectable quarters on the subject, that the tenantry and labourers in general felt no interest whatever in the price at which the protecting duty should be fixed—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/mar/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/mar/06/corn-bill", "section": "corn-bill", "cue_text": "A laugh, and cries of Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "at on the subject. Many of them were prejudiced 18 in favour of it. Who were the evidence? Men whose characters were raised in proportion to the rise of land. Every landholder, he contended; was interested in this, for they would gain considerably in the amount of their rents. If corn was raised from 60 s . to 70 s . the landlord would gain a guinea an acre; if to 80 s . he would gain 2 l. 11 s . "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/mar/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/mar/06/proceedings-upon-complaint-that-the", "section": "proceedings-upon-complaint-that-the", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "o immediately adjourn. Lord Castlereagh said, that if the hon. gentleman had bestowed a little more consideration upon his motion, he would have been aware that it was not in a committee that it ought to be brought forward. The hon. gentleman should also have taken the pains of informing himself, whether this military force which he had seen was or was not under the command of a civil magistrate. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/mar/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/mar/06/proceedings-upon-complaint-that-the", "section": "proceedings-upon-complaint-that-the", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "ly torn from the body, and said, that besides this he could shew other visible marks of the treatment he had received. Instead of finding the mob as patient and mild as the hon. and learned Attorney General, he had experienced nothing but the most brutal treatment, and after having been buffeted about like a shuttlecock between two battledores, he escaped, with great difficulty, to tell his tale. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/mar/06", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/mar/06/proceedings-upon-complaint-that-the", "section": "proceedings-upon-complaint-that-the", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "nto submission to a mob, he should think himself unworthy a seat in that 34 House, did he decline expressing his unqualified approbation of the measure; to which he should give his warm support. § Sir Frederick Flood declared, that he had been carried above a hundred yards on the shoulders of the mob, just like mackarel from Billingsgate-market, and that he thought they meant to quarter him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/mar/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/mar/07/mutiny-bill", "section": "mutiny-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! from the opposite benches, and the case of lord Cochrane was intimated to the noble lord", "preceding_text": "le, surely the accuser was fairly amenable to the ordinary mode of trial, without the interposition of any summary proceeding. In cases of absence without leave, he knew more than one instance in which the individual could have fully excused his breach of order, if exposed to the scrutiny of any investigation. In the navy there was no such mode of punishment; and was there a laxity of discipline? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/mar/20/address-respecting-the-congress-at-vienna", "section": "address-respecting-the-congress-at-vienna", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! from lord Castlereagh.", "preceding_text": "s, moreover, to prohibit his subjects from engaging in the Slave Trade, for the purpose of supplying any islands or possessions excepting those appertaining to Spain, and to prevent likewise, by effectual measures and regulations, the protection of the Spanish flag being given to foreigners who may engage in this traffick, whether subjects of his Britannic Majesty or of any other state or power.\"—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/mar/20/address-respecting-the-congress-at-vienna", "section": "address-respecting-the-congress-at-vienna", "cue_text": "Hear, hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ory descriptions of the conduct of the different governments were more likely to produce public disturbances, and to impede the progress of the negociation, than to produce any other object. The cause of this country had been very much injured by that sort of inability which seemed to belong to some members of withholding their judgments till any subject could come with propriety before them. 298 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1815/mar/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1815/mar/22/motion-respecting-aliens", "section": "motion-respecting-aliens", "cue_text": "a laugh.", "preceding_text": "st unjustifiable transfer of power had been made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to M. de. Souza, the Portuguese minister. Because Correia written some lampoons which annoyed M. de Souza, he applied to Mr. Ryder, who was then Secretary of State by whom he was sent to Lisbon, a place which seemed to be peculiarly selected for the reception of persons guilty of political lampoons "}