{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/dec/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/dec/13/breach-of-privilege-complaint-against-a", "section": "breach-of-privilege-complaint-against-a", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "m an office of filial piety—to visit his father, who who was in a dangerous state of health, as it was of consequence that he should see him before he submitted to the punishment the House might determine to inflict. He did not mean to say any thing against the mode of proceeding recommended; on the contrary, it was the only way in which the House could properly proceed on a question of this kind "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/dec/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/dec/13/breach-of-privilege-complaint-against-a", "section": "breach-of-privilege-complaint-against-a", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "the House might determine to inflict. He did not mean to say any thing against the mode of proceeding recommended; on the contrary, it was the only way in which the House could properly proceed on a question of this kind [Hear, hear!]. For one, he should always protest against that anomalous process of sending a question of parliamentary privilege to be tried by any other court than itself "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/dec/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/dec/13/breach-of-privilege-complaint-against-a", "section": "breach-of-privilege-complaint-against-a", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_text": " the favourable topics which he could recollect. Sir F. Burdett said, he was going to prove that the House had no right to decide in this case. It was evident, however, that there was no great inclination to hear him. This was the justice administered by Rhadamanthus—or rather worse: for Rhadamanthus punished first, and heard afterwards; but the House awarded punishment, and would not hear at all "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/dec/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/dec/13/breach-of-privilege-complaint-against-a", "section": "breach-of-privilege-complaint-against-a", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " completely stopped, if the House adopted the principle laid down by the hon. and learned gentleman. In that case, he should be placed in this predicament, that he could not read an extract from the paper to which he had alluded, because he did not mean to complain of any breach of privilege. Indeed, he held that the writing then under consideration was not a breach of the privilege of that House "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/dec/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/dec/13/breach-of-privilege-complaint-against-a", "section": "breach-of-privilege-complaint-against-a", "cue_text": "Cries of\" No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "erefore, trouble them farther on this occasion; but when at a future time the question came before them, whether this gentleman should or should not be committed to Newgate, he would then state his opinion at length. § The Speaker That is the question now before the House. Sir C. Burrell said, as it appeared that the sense of the House was against his amendment, he was unwilling to press it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/dec/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/dec/13/seditious-meetings-prevention-bill", "section": "seditious-meetings-prevention-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " contradict him. Did it in its enactments interfere with any right of the subject according to the spirit of the constitution? It was, and he said it with sincerity, a remedial measure. He appealed to the common sense of every man who heard him, whether the expression of the public voice was possible to be obtained at these screaming, howling, hallooing meetings which the measure went to suppress "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/dec/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/dec/13/seditious-meetings-prevention-bill", "section": "seditious-meetings-prevention-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ulated to remedy the existing evils. Many hon. members had expressed their reluctance to support these measures; and he was glad to hear them say so, as it was an admission that they were a restraint upon the liberties of the people. Buthow did this admission agree with the statements of a right hon. gentleman (Mr. Plunkett), that these bills were brought forward in the spirit of the constitution "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/dec/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/dec/13/seditious-meetings-prevention-bill", "section": "seditious-meetings-prevention-bill", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": " have been no Catholic meeting to petition the legislature and that, since the first presentation of it, to the House, a clause had been introduced to remedy this defect.—After some other observations, Mr. Hutchinson con- 1089 cluded by asking leave to bring up his clause. Mr. Plunkett assured the hon. and gallant general, for so he believed, without meaning to deny his learning, he must call him "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/03/bank-restriction-continuance-petition", "section": "bank-restriction-continuance-petition", "cue_text": "a laugh.", "preceding_text": "gen- 280 tleman of the Bank had said last night, \"to exercise a little discretion of his own.\" In the proposed list he found the name of a gentleman of doctors commons, (sir John Nicholl), and he could not conceive why he should have been nominated, unless it was apprehended that there existed a criminal conversation between the chancellor of the exchequer and the old lady in Thread needle street "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/03/committee-on-the-state-of-the-bank-of", "section": "committee-on-the-state-of-the-bank-of", "cue_text": "a laugh.", "preceding_text": "the same accident, on the table of a great number of other gentlemen, and, by the same uniform experience he had found that those who possessed the independence of the hon. member were in the minority, and the majority was composed of those who put the lists in the glass just in the same state as they had found them on their tables. § Mr. Waithman said, that he had found no list on his table "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/08/motion-for-adding-mr-brougham-to-the", "section": "motion-for-adding-mr-brougham-to-the", "cue_text": "a laugh, and cries of question!", "preceding_text": " and he would vote against the motion. Much had been said about the management of government in making out lists, but he verily believed that if government had been ever so anxious, it would have been out of their power to procure the nomination of the hon. and 358 learned gentleman on the committee. He was not ashamed to say that government could not have induced him to vote for that appointment "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/08/finance-committee-appointed", "section": "finance-committee-appointed", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ich ought, therefore, to be added to the produce of the sugar duties of 1819: this would take a considerable sum from the nett produce of 1818, and reduce it to 48,724,000 l ., while that of 1819 remained at 54,062,000 l .; the difference, allowing for some other comparatively trifling deductions, would be 5,328,000 l ., or not less than an increase of 10 per cent upon the ancient permanent taxes "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/08/finance-committee-appointed", "section": "finance-committee-appointed", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "conomy of 650,000 l . 363 to the improved revenue, it appeared that the country was now in a better situation by 2,145,000 l . than the former finance committee had ventured to anticipate: and adding also to that sum the 1,413,000 l . on which the finance committee had calculated, a total surplus of not less than 3,558,000 l . was the result, applicable to the reduction of the debt of the nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/08/finance-committee-appointed", "section": "finance-committee-appointed", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "call the attention of the House to that part only of our exports which was most important, as it regarded the true interests of the country; British produce and manufactures; and the comparison would extend to the four last years. It was with unfeigned satisfaction he had to observe, in the first instance, that the last had been the most splendid year ever known in the history of British commerce "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/08/finance-committee-appointed", "section": "finance-committee-appointed", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " 1815, the official value of British produce and manufactures was 35,231,000 l .; in 1816, 28,827,000 l .; in 1817 (the year when it was asserted that the nation was commercially ruined, and the continent shut against us) 32,000,000 l .; and in 1818, 35,325,000 l ., being nearly 100,000 l . beyond the year 1815, the great excess of which was assigned to temporary, fallacious, and unnatural causes "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/08/finance-committee-appointed", "section": "finance-committee-appointed", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "to inquire how the present system was to be checked or reformed. Why should not the right hon. the; chancellor of the exchequer proceed at once to some decisive measure?; Why?—because it would lead to a public inquiry.; And why not go to a public inquiry?.—because it would lower the price of stock. And why not lower 376 the price of stock?—because that would make a certain set of gentlemen angry. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/08/finance-committee-appointed", "section": "finance-committee-appointed", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " taxes. Parliament had thought fit to relieve the country from fifteen millions of taxes, and thus they necessarily and unavoidably, by their own act, prevented the effect which would have been produced in the redemption of debt by these fifteen millions annually. Parliament had chosen to do this—he would not say they had acted unwisely—but they had chosen to do it, contrary to his recommendation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/08/finance-committee-appointed", "section": "finance-committee-appointed", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " gradual, and slow reduc- 380 tion of debt, by the subsequent improvement of the revenue, required a long continuance of peace. We had now ascertained that that improvement had commenced which was calculated on, and that we were now making a progress in the reduction of our debt, and his expectation was, that the reduction would be greater, from year to year, from the improvement of our resources "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/feb/08/finance-committee-appointed", "section": "finance-committee-appointed", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "te of interest. No man who imagined he saw a chance of profit in any branch of trade, could be at a loss to obtain the funds at a reduced rate of interest. All this had increased the trade of the country. But what had been the consequence? The exportation had been so great, that there was not a market in Europe or America where British manufactures could not be bought cheaper than in this country "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/03/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "General cries of No, no.", "preceding_text": "e grave. He would trouble the House with no further observations, but would move, as an amendment, \"That the bill be read a second time on this day six months.\" The Attorney General said, that the first part of the gallant general's argument went to establish the right of the subjects of one state to enlist in the service of another state, and even if that state should be at war with their state. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/03/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "Sir R. Wilson rose to explain; but the cries of \"No. no, it is unnecessary,\" were so general, that he immediately sat down.", "preceding_text": "read a second time on this day six months.\" The Attorney General said, that the first part of the gallant general's argument went to establish the right of the subjects of one state to enlist in the service of another state, and even if that state should be at war with their state. [General cries of No, no.] The instances to which the gallant general had referred went to establish that principle. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/03/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "vehement and continued cheers from the opposition.", "preceding_text": "hem, which said, \"Without a misdemeanour you shall not enlist yourselves, or suffer yourselves to be enlisted, without a license, that is, without the consent of the king.\" This was the principle of the bill. It was founded on the principles of the common law. He was aware that it might be replied, If it was so, why not leave it to the operation of the common law? why introduce 874 a new statute? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/03/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ght in the same school with our Raleighs and Essexes, who had learned the art of war in combating the despotism of Spain in a similar cause. He should therefore oppose the bill, because he would not consent to alter our internal policy to suit our foreign relations, and because he was convinced that its principle was dictated by a set of sovereigns who were the enemies of freedom and independence "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/03/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "loud cheering", "preceding_text": "ressive. He agreed with his hon. friend below him in what he had said with respect to the suspicious origin of the measure, because it bore, in his opinion, most unequivocal marks of foreign suggestion, and of coming from a quarter too, of all others (for no power ought ever to interfere with our internal laws) the least entitled to expect any grace or favour at the hands of an English parliament "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/03/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "loud cheering", "preceding_text": "think of without his blood running cold, had the noble lord come forward. But now, when a crisis had arrived—when these men, fighting for all that was dear to them with so much perseverance and constancy, had all but won the prize of their glorious deliverance—now when they came forward to strike the deadly blow, the noble lord stretched forth a saving hand to the last efforts of expiring tyranny "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/03/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "t odious tyranny which had ever disgraced an European nation, would so soon have produced their ultimately necessary consequences, would so soon have corrupted to the core the proud Castilian monarchy, stripped it of its rank and consideration in Europe, and threatened it with the loss of those extensive territories beyond the Atlantic, the conquest of which had been marked with cruelty and blood "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/03/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "en the question was, not the ceding a colony to our rivals, but the erecting a great empire, not to our advantage alone, but to that of the whole civilized world; at such a moment, were we to bestir ourselves, to ransack our statute books, to make that law in his favour which never was law before, and to exert our legislative power to assist this impotent, though legitimate and oppressive monarch "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/03/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " feelings. The feelings of the English people were not to be trifled with. The government, solid as its institutions were, mainly rested, after all, on public opinion. Popular prejudice it might dissipate; popular error it might encounter; but the public opinion, founded on the good and generous feelings of the universal British nation, would be found to be stronger than even power itself! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/16/breach-of-privilege-mr-collier", "section": "breach-of-privilege-mr-collier", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no\"", "preceding_text": "er give his support. It went upon the principle of Rhadamanthus, castigatque auditque. It chastised first, and heard the party after; which he conceived was a most unjust method of proceeding. As to the particular charge against the petitioner, he did not believe him guilty, for he understood that the words used were nearly similar to those reported, and that there were cheers about the same time "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/jun/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/jun/16/breach-of-privilege-mr-collier", "section": "breach-of-privilege-mr-collier", "cue_text": "Loud cries of Order", "preceding_text": "at he (Mr. Hume) would not have hesitated to rise and contradict the insinuations which had been thrown out against him in his absence. If his right hon. friend had not been fully convinced that the whole of the paragraph complained of was a most gross misrepresentation, he would not have taken any notice of it in the House, but would have terminated the business by another and a different issue. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/mar/17", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/mar/17/marriage-act-amendment-bill", "section": "marriage-act-amendment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "oting as the amended law would place minors by licence, with this addition, that the parties marrying by banns should have a complete residence of one fortnight in the parish where the banns were published. He assured the House, that in submitting this measure to its consideration he was actuated by no visionary ideas of improvement, but solely by the desire to correct a growing and admitted evil "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/may/13/sinking-fund", "section": "sinking-fund", "cue_text": "A laugh", "preceding_text": "And if so, there would not be one single shilling reserved for the reduction of the national debt. True it was, that 100,000,000 l . stock stood in the names of the commissioners for the redemption of that debt, which the right hon. gentleman, who never failed to advert to the circumstance, called a treasure; and well he might, for it was such a treasure as no nation ever possessed before! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/may/13/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " apply it to temporary objects? Was the principle itself doubtful, or was honest neutrality intended by the measure? The principles of neutrality only required us to maintain the laws in being, as they might affect the character of the belligerent; but they could not command us to change any law; least of all, could they require us to alter our laws for the evident advantage of one of the parties "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/may/13/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "Loud cheers", "preceding_text": " than as an enactment to repress the rising liberty of the South Americans, and to enable Spain to re-impose that yoke of tyranny which they were unable to bear, which they had nobly shaken off, and from which, he trusted in God they would 368 finally be enabled to free themselves, whatever attempts were made by the ministers of this or any other country, to countenance or assist their oppressors "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1819/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1819/may/13/foreign-enlistment-bill", "section": "foreign-enlistment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " the severity of its penal enactments. He should be ready to give explanation at the different stages of the bill, or to support its different clauses: but he must again protest against such conduct as that of the hon. and learned gentleman, who found out partiality where none was intended, and declared that we were unjust to one of the parties, because we wished to place both on the same footing "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1819/may/17", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1819/may/17/roman-catholic-question", "section": "roman-catholic-question", "cue_text": "Loud cries of hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "to preserve, not only the name, but the substance of the Protestant religion. Indifference to religion generally led to great temporal evils, and, if for no other reason, at least for this, ought the Protestant religion to be supported, that it would be always a barrier against oppression, and a nursing mother to liberty and freedom. Ecclesiastical usurpation generally terminated in civil tyranny "}