{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/apr/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/apr/29/academical-society", "section": "academical-society", "cue_text": "A laugh!", "preceding_text": "ould be the misconceptions of magistrates in the country, respecting the operation of that law, deprived, as they were, of such advantages? Indeed, it was not left for the House to surmise on this point, as he had heard that a bench of country magistrates had 84 already resisted the application of a Mineralogical Society, on the presumption that the investigation of such subjects led to blasphemy "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "e must believe, not honest propositions, circulated with such perverse industry out of doors, it was his duty to come forward and avow himself. If there was any such opinion in the House, the member who held it, owed it to the cause of reform, and to the best interests of the people, to have the proposition canvassed; its absurdity exposed, and the delusion for ever dispelled from the public mind "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "a laugh, and Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "acticable proposition, observed, that in many of the petitions the means were pointed out, namely by taking the lists already prepared for the calling out of the militia whenever it might be required. Whenever the subject came to be discussed, he should take as his guide the wisdom of the people, who would not be influenced in their judgment as members of that House were. The people judged coolly "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " great national interest in competition with the opinion of fifteen thousand, or of fifteen hundred thousand people out of doors, and who not only does that, but who slanders the people of England by intimating that they labour under a gross delusion, and by accusing their leaders of dishonest practices; I think the House will pardon me if I trouble it with a few words in my own 365 justification "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "of many gentlemen who have done me the honour to attend to my conduct in parliament, both recently, and when I had a seat in this House four or five years ago; and I think they will agree in allowing that there are few, if any individuals here, who have ever shown on all occasions a more determined resistance to any attempts, even of the faintest description, to oppress the people of this country "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "s country [Hear, hear!]. I have in all cases gone as far as it was possible for me to go to assist in opening the door of this House to their complaints; and I have done all that I could—and not less than the noble lord— to discountenance, as far as my little influence would allow me, any proposition which appeared to me to be calculated to impede, cramp, and hamper the exercise of popular rights "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " me to be calculated to impede, cramp, and hamper the exercise of popular rights [Hear, hear!]. I therefore put myself on my country, in competition with the noble lord, as to which of us has shown himself to be the greater friend of the people of England. But, Sir, I will not show my friendship for the people, by telling them falsehoods. I will not be a party in practising delusion on the people "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "people, by telling them falsehoods. I will not be a party in practising delusion on the people [Hear, hear!]. I will not take advantage of the warmth of popular meetings, a great proportion of the individuals constituting which are necessarily ignorant of the nicer points of history, and antiquity, to induce the people to sign such petitions as those which have lately been presented to this House "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "use [Hear, hear!]. Sir, I do not blame the large body of the people who have appeared before us as petitioners, for the language in which they have expressed themselves; but I blame them, or rather I blame the fabricators of the petitions, by whom they have been palmed upon the people, for having the assurance to declare that universal suffrage was a right for which our ancestors shed their blood "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " free and perfect constitution. Gracious God! Twelve hundred years ago! Sir, we have heard of histories of England by various individuals and of various descriptions, but in what history of England is to be found, not only a trace of this country's having † 366 enjoyed a free and perfect constitution 1,200 years ago, but a trace of its having enjoyed any constitution at all at that period? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ts having enjoyed any constitution at all at that period? [Hear, hear!]. What do we know of the state of this country, in that respect, in the year 618! Why, Sir, we know little or nothing of the constitution of England half as many centuries back; and what can we possibly know of its constitution two hundred years before the different kingdoms of the Saxon Heptarchy were united under one monarch "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "laughter and loud cheers", "preceding_text": "xon Heptarchy were united under one monarch [Hear, hear!]? This, Sir, is a specimen of the historical knowledge, of the antiquarian research, of the acquaintance with constitutional law, of these wise-acres out of doors, who, after poring for days and nights, and brooding over their wild and mischievous schemes, rise up with their little nostrums and big blunders to amend the British constitution "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "m the nature of their sufferings, that they in a great measure originated in the mal-administration of public affairs. So knowing, 367 and so feeling, they naturally vented their complaints in the petitions with which the table of this House groans, into which petitions many statements and propositions have evidently been thrust, to which the actual petitioners themselves were no parties whatever "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/14/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "[Hear, hear !", "preceding_text": "cause of this popular agitation; and that as far as the people call upon us for great retrenchments and some reform, the call is well-founded, and must be heard. I heartily hope that it may be heard before it is too late, and that the people may by that means be taken and kept out of the hands of those who would betray them into misery a hundred fold greater than that which they at present endure "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/19/motion-for-appointing-a-committee", "section": "motion-for-appointing-a-committee", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "g to part with it. They endeavoured then to excite alarm, and spoke of the danger likely to result to the public credit from such discussions; but he knew of no injury such discussions could create to the credit of government, but the proofs they afforded of what was well expressed on a former occasion, by an hon. and learned gentleman, whose absence from that House must be regretted by every one "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/28/yeomanry", "section": "yeomanry", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ery much feared that there existed a disposition and a settled intention to produce a state of things in England nothing short of despotism; and he was anxious to put the House on its guard on the subject. He uttered this as his unbiassed opinion. He had nothing to ask either of one side of the House or of 783 the other. He spoke merely as an honest I man representing a great and important county "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/28/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "ion list. In 1797, he remembered the same question was discussed in that House, in the presence of not more than seventy members: such was the fatal consequence of men's minds becoming habituated to such a proceeding. With respect to the question of parliamentary reform, though he was not prepared to go the length of some persons, yet he had no hesitation in declaring that he was s small reformer "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/28/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of No, no! from the Ministerial benches.", "preceding_text": "against it, he should not have ventured to present himself to the notice of the House. He was the more anxious, however, to clear himself from the imputation that had been cast upon those who sat on his side, that if they did not encourage the violent proceedings which had taken place, they at least supported them by the arguments they had held, and the vote which they had given on this occasion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/28/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Hear hear!", "preceding_text": "at estimable friend he had often politically differed in his life-time; but now that he was unhappily no more, and the country for ever deprived of his invaluable services, he over looked all shades of political difference that had subsisted between them, and only retained the most affectionate recollection of him whom he ! so highly esteemed while living, and whose loss he now deplored when dead "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/28/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of No, no! and coughing", "preceding_text": "ve the delinquency of the parties now in custody, would have lost their lives; and those persons who had been secured at Glasgow, would not have been arrested: for when they had seen that government were in possession of information which could only be obtained from certain quarters, they would have withdrawn themselves from the danger of apprehension and most likely have sacrificed the informers "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/28/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of No, no!", "preceding_text": "w ones? In common times, the ordinary laws against high treason were deemed to be sufficient. Now it was admitted that a new law was necessary for the protection of the person of the Prince Regent, not against acts that could only be comprehended by laws framed to punish constructive treason; not against secret plots to levy war against his government,—but against direct attempts at assassination "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/28/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No,\" \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "being engaged in treasonable practices, as should obtain credit with six privy counsellors, or with one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state, would not be exposed to the operation of the act, and might claim to be brought to trial or discharged. Such was the character of that law which some gentlemen went so far as to say, ought at no time and in no case to be granted to any government "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/28/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of No, no! repeated", "preceding_text": "r with one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state, would not be exposed to the operation of the act, and might claim to be brought to trial or discharged. Such was the character of that law which some gentlemen went so far as to say, ought at no time and in no case to be granted to any government [Cries of \"No,\" \"No!\"]. I He thought it would not be denied that such language bad been used "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/feb/28/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of Read, read!", "preceding_text": "ishing such offences, the law officers of the crown. It had been said, that he had not prosecuted these tracts, because they were so numerous. Ultimately it would be found it was not their numbers that could prevent him from proceeding against them. He had then in his pocket a most shocking and blasphemous parody on the Creed, which he had that day received in a letter from a gentleman at Norwich "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/jan/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jan/31/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "how that right hon. gentleman, that he did not know where he was proceeding with his threats. The right hon. gentleman had thought proper to warn the members of that House, whose duty it might be to present the thousand petitions backed by half a million of their fellow subjects, that as often as they came forward with those petitions, he would put a question to them which they must answer. Must! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/jan/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jan/31/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " million of men, or all the petitioners whose applications the hon. baronet stated would be laid on † 161 the table; because he was convinced, that the surrender of one privilege from menace or intimidation would only invite farther attacks. Under all the circumstances, he trusted the hon. baronet would not, and he used the phrase in no invidious sense, press the point with any pertinacity "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/jan/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jan/31/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! from all parts of the House", "preceding_text": "of shutting the doors of parliament to the petitions of public meetings, if instead of taking any severe methods of preventing these meetings from assembling to petition, an attempt were made to convince them by sound reasoning and rational argument, much would be done to conciliate their minds, and allay their irritation; much would be done for the cause of good order and constitutional liberty. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jun/27/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ging and abetting and fortifying their treasons, in order to sell their blood at a better price!.— 1222 Can such men as these be believed, when they stand forward (matchless impudence!) as the accusers of the people of England?—By what motive can you tempt such men to tell the truth?—By what form of adjuration can you bind the consciences of such men in the presence of Almighty God? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jun/27/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! from government", "preceding_text": "ther a continued suspension of our rights, I think that even at that dreadful issue, even in that awful alternative, I should be speaking in the spirit at least of the British constitution in saying that I should prefer, as the lesser evil, public disquiet to the risk of freedom so long suspended that it may never be restored, —that I had rather see my country revolutionized than see it enslaved—."}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jun/27/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "loud cheers from opposition", "preceding_text": " I should be speaking in the spirit at least of the British constitution in saying that I should prefer, as the lesser evil, public disquiet to the risk of freedom so long suspended that it may never be restored, —that I had rather see my country revolutionized than see it enslaved—.[Hear, hear! from government]. I repeat it.—I had rather see my country revolutionized, than see it enslaved "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jun/27/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "loud cries of\" Hear!\" from opposition", "preceding_text": " which call on every father of a family who wishes to transmit his country's laws to his sons, as from his fathers he received them, entire, unsullied, and free, to step forward and resist, by every legal means within his power, this torrent which has broken in upon the constitution. It is in the discharge of a solemn and imperative duty, that, with these sentiments, I must vote against this bill "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jun/27/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "re not to be lightly induced to abandon in a panic the palladium of the people's rights. Teach them that, happen what will, that at least shall be held sacred and inviolate; for annihilate it, and you may build your Waterloo bridges and Waterloo monuments in record, and it will be a mournful omen of what a free people could 1239 achieve, but the spirit that conquered there will be no more! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jun/27/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_text": "umanity which pervaded the law of England?—Another material part of the 1247 bill was, that it allowed government to send the persons whom they apprehended to distant gaols; thus augmenting their hardships and their danger. The hon. and religious member was shocked the other day at the description of the Africans chained and carried into slavery. How happened it that the hon. and religious member "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/jun/27", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/jun/27/habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "section": "habeas-corpus-suspension-bill", "cue_text": "Loud cheers.", "preceding_text": "ly attacked when he had no power to answer. He was rather surprised, therefore, that those who made the attack did not think, proper to follow it up. He had sat there during the whole of the night in expectation that they would come forward; and if they waited till he had made his statement, and then came forward to attack him—if he was unfairly dealt with before, this would be still more unfair. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/mar/03/petition-from-blackburn-respecting", "section": "petition-from-blackburn-respecting", "cue_text": "loud cries of Hear! from the opposition side", "preceding_text": "the signatures to the petition. With respect to the meeting at Preston, it had no doubt been regularly convened, on a requisition numerously and respectably signed; but the 839 doors of the hall hail hardly been opened, when in rushed a rabble of cotton-spinners and weavers, and others of the very lowest order of people, with Mr. Casey, a man from Liverpool, at the head of them, an Irish renegado—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/mar/03/petition-from-blackburn-respecting", "section": "petition-from-blackburn-respecting", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "would never have been heard in that House. That he had transferred his 840 residence from Ireland to this country was a most unusual ground of accusation against him; it was an accusation which, if it were to be allowed any weight, might be found very inconvenient to many persons in England from that country, and the more so, if on leaving that country, they also left their principles behind them "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/mar/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/mar/03/petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "section": "petitions-relating-to-reform-c", "cue_text": "a laugh!", "preceding_text": "ulty in which the hon. baronet was placed, owing to the great mass of these petitions. Sir Francis, assisted by the clerks, went through the labour of lifting the petitions upon the table. When those from Blackburne, Derby, and some other towns were read, several of the petitions were found to be printed. 860 § The Speaker observed, that he was afraid the hon. baronet must take them all back "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/mar/12/petition-from-liverpool-relating-to", "section": "petition-from-liverpool-relating-to", "cue_text": "Hear! and a laugh", "preceding_text": "of the way in which the 988 signatures to it had been obtained, which he did not mean to make a matter of discussion, for it was now practised on other similar occasions, and they had already debated the subject often enough. He was told, that of the 14,000 signatures which appeared, not only a great number of them were by the softer sex, but a still greater number by persons of the tenderest age "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/07/breach-of-privilege-the-rev-thomas", "section": "breach-of-privilege-the-rev-thomas", "cue_text": "Cries of Order, order!", "preceding_text": "r or what had been just laid down by the noble lord. It used formerly to be the practice of parliament, when the language of any individual in the House was commented upon out of doors, to call the person to account who censured it. I5ut this privilege could not be acted upon now, when the debates were not confined to the walls of the House, but a portion of the House was set apart for the public "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/07/breach-of-privilege-the-rev-thomas", "section": "breach-of-privilege-the-rev-thomas", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ouse ought, at its outset, to mark the manner in which they were generally prepared to act. As to the distinction attempted to be made between this case and other libels, he thought it to be without a shadow of foundation. How did the libel obstruct the course of justice in the sense that had been alluded to? It referred to the last year's proceeding of a committee which had completed its labours—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/07/case-of-mary-ryan", "section": "case-of-mary-ryan", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " woman too, under all those agonizing feelings, to make a defence—to increase the already aggravated sufferings of her helpless condition, by arraigning her for such an alleged crime, was one, he must say, of the most indecorous proceedings, and perhaps savoured more of the character of inhumanity in the exercise of British jurisprudence, than had ever before been witnessed in this humane country "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/07/case-of-mary-ryan", "section": "case-of-mary-ryan", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " ever before been witnessed in this humane country [Hear, hear!]. It was, he might be told, strictly legal—the accusation was, and he believed it was fully borne out by the facts; but these admissions did not change its character, because in the prosecution of the offenc—in the time of bringing it forward, a course was pursued in direct hostility to the spirit and principle of all just law "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/07/case-of-mary-ryan", "section": "case-of-mary-ryan", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "cution was proceeded in after the pardon of the Crown was with held from the husband. He blamed those who, under these circumstances, pressed the matter to a trial. But this was not the worst part of the case. The unfortunate woman, who was in gaol with her husband—who saw him carried to execution—she was conducted to take her trial for a criminal charge before the corpse of that husband was cold "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/07/case-of-mary-ryan", "section": "case-of-mary-ryan", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ation. Was the present, then, not a case which, on the most imperative grounds, called for its exercise? He did not believe that there ever existed in this country an attorney-general that would have withheld its application, and most certain he was, that the good natured and humane man, who so recently filled that office, would, if informed of the circumstances, instantly have applied the remedy "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/07/case-of-mary-ryan", "section": "case-of-mary-ryan", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "band, according to the ancient usage of her native country, which it was her anxious wish to perform. Her fate had, indeed, been severe; and if ever she returned to her native country, she was not likely to spread that love for the laws of England, and that affection for its institutions, which ought to be generally diffused, and which in no country were more necessary or would be more beneficial "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/07/case-of-mary-ryan", "section": "case-of-mary-ryan", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "alling spectacle did she present while arraigned at that bar! But a few hours before she stood in the endearing connection of a wife, but at that bar she stood an unhappy, defenceless widow, with her orphan child at her breast; her heart wrung at that time with the most agonizing sensations, when she turned to the melancholy fate of her husband and looked on the wretched infant in her arms "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/07", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/07/case-of-mary-ryan", "section": "case-of-mary-ryan", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "been explained in the slightest satisfactory manner. It appeared to him that his object would be defeated if he consented to withdraw the motion, because he wished that the House, by adopting it, should make a public declaration of their opinion, and hold up this fatal, this horrible transaction, as a warn- 266 ing to all magistrates in future. On that account he was determined not to withdraw it "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/12/army-estimates", "section": "army-estimates", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "that establishment, was the first to set an example of reduction. When the list of salaries, &c. was submitted to him for his opinion, as to the utmost practicable retrenchment he immediately drew his pen through the 500 l . per annum allowed him for table money. Such an act of disinterestedness was highly honourable to that gallant officer, but could surprise no one acquainted with his character "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/12/army-estimates", "section": "army-estimates", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "had ever been finally overthrown, or popular freedom permanently subdued, by any other agency than that of a standing army. These were his opinions, these his sentiments, which, whatever pain they might have cost him in the expression, he could neither abjure nor disguise. In conformity to them, he must give, as far as one cordial vote could go, his decided and eager opposition to these estimates—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/13/army-estimates", "section": "army-estimates", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " hazard an opinion that her power and glory would not long survive their loss. From an account which had been laid on his table a few days ago, it appeared that the duties on sugar and rum alone amounted to within half a million of the ordinary charge of the whole army. Colonies that contributed so much to the wealth and resources of the mother country deserved from her the most ample protection. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/15/renewal-of-the-habeas-corpus-suspension", "section": "renewal-of-the-habeas-corpus-suspension", "cue_text": "Cries of hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " wish to provoke a discussion, or to commit the House to a premature declaration of its sentiments, he felt it his duty, under the circumstances the House had been placed in by the question of the right hon. gentleman, to state, that his majesty's ministers, in the present situation of the country, thought themselves called on to propose to parliament a continuance of the measure now in operation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/15/renewal-of-the-habeas-corpus-suspension", "section": "renewal-of-the-habeas-corpus-suspension", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "harged with high treason: but he was now told, that without any farther information, the law-officers of the Crown, after having confined this man six weeks, had discharged him, without bail: so that a respectable individual had been incarcerated six; weeks without cause, discharged without inquiry, and left to seek redress for the loss of his trade, character, and health, in what manner he could—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/15/state-of-the-irish-finances", "section": "state-of-the-irish-finances", "cue_text": "Hear, hear", "preceding_text": "e course of your finance had beggered the country, and left to her no possible means of supporting it longer;—you first caused the immense accumulation of debt which baffled all attempts to liquidate it or arrest its progress; you then take on you the debt, but leave the taxation which was intended to meet it. This may by parliamentary logic, be termed a benefit, but 585 it is logic no where else "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/15", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/15/state-of-the-irish-finances", "section": "state-of-the-irish-finances", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "e from whence that revenue is derived—it will abridge still more our scanty capital—it will uphold disunion and insubordination among the people, and certainly alienate their affections from the legislature, because they will feel themselves neglected whilst nominally under your protection, and deceived in every hope of relief which was authoritatively but delusively held out to them at the Union—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1817/may/19", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1817/may/19/lottery-bill", "section": "lottery-bill", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": " realized by the abandonment of lotteries as a source of revenue. § Mr. J. W. Ward agreed, that lottery bills were most injurious to morals, and at the same time were not good financial measures; yet he thought the bill should pass at this time, for this reason, because none of the hon. gentlemen on the other side had pointed out any other mode of raising the money which the lottery supplied "}