{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/apr/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/apr/03/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "em. It suited government perfectly well to send the grievances of the people to a committee up stairs, upon whose report they could rely, while the house were busy in passing supplies, upon which a profuse expenditure could be continued, and that they might ride over this session like the preceding one, without the least practicable remedy being suggested or effected for the agricultural distress "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/apr/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/apr/03/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "itioners for doing that which was not within their power. He (Mr. Ellice) had always considered it impracticable to maintain higher proportionate prices in this country to those on the continent, than existed before the war; and the committee, if they had considered their object as much with reference to its 1438 practicability, as to its supposed expediency must have come to the same conclusion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/apr/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/apr/03/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "r they may have been produced or aggravated by the alteration in the currency, or taxation. Surely at such a moment, with the pressure hourly increasing, it might have occurred to them to inquire, why the tenant, with the same price for his produce, could not even pay his former rent? Or how far the article of corn had declined In price beyond any other article of production, foreign and domestic "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/apr/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/apr/03/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ons. The interest on the funded debt was 31—pensions and payments of this description 10 millions. Take the reduction of rents at, and it will be admitted it cannot be less ultimately than a third—deduct the same amount for burthens, this great national interest will be reduced to 19 millions, less than half the amount payable to public creditors and pensioners, from the taxes in the present year "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/apr/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/apr/03/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Cheers", "preceding_text": "wine, to make it as dear as the produce of the hot-houses. In the same way with sugar. In this way all branches of foreign commerce would be lost to this nation, and to every nation which adopted countervailing duties. The only true policy was to allow us to go to the country where the article required was most easily and abundantly produced. He was ashamed to occupy the time of the House so long "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/11/distressed-state-of-the-country", "section": "distressed-state-of-the-country", "cue_text": "Loud Cheers.", "preceding_text": "bound up in the prosperity of the land—the country had only one limit to relief—the making that relief decidedly effectual—that if one measure of reduction would not do, recourse must be had to another, and from thence to another; and that if all reductions were found insufficient, the country must prepare for other measures, for measures only to be justified by a paramount unreasoning necessity. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/11/distressed-state-of-the-country", "section": "distressed-state-of-the-country", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "ruction of one of the most commanding interests in the country, was shortly this—a great change of property; much individual misery; the whole relations of the class destroyed; or the relations of that class to the rest of society, and those of its members to each other. Such was what was called the destruction of a class: and when it happened to a community, it became the destruction of a state. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/11/distressed-state-of-the-country", "section": "distressed-state-of-the-country", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "of some great man. It was not by petty unjust savings of this kind that real retrenchment was to be effected—but by beginning at the highest and going down to the lowest salaries, till every class of the state was included. He hoped they would not be any longer told, that public men were not to be borne bard upon, when it was the fact that they were the only class who had not suffered enormously. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/11/distressed-state-of-the-country", "section": "distressed-state-of-the-country", "cue_text": "Much laughter.", "preceding_text": "ified the office had beer no less than five years in possession of his situation. Conduct so praiseworthy conk not decently go unrewarded. If such an act did not deserve remuneration, what did? If it was not merit who could hope to be meritorious? Five years in his post! It was a signal instance of that propensity to keep place, which was the support of ministers, and the blessing of the country! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/11/distressed-state-of-the-country", "section": "distressed-state-of-the-country", "cue_text": "shouts of laughter", "preceding_text": "rsevere still further in the same virtuous course, his salary, from 1,800 l. was raised to 2,000 l. per annum. So bright a reward for meritorious conduct could scarcely fail to produce the best effects: and in fact, the honourable secretary continued two years longer in office, to evince his gratitude for the bounty which had been showered upon him. What! two years more? he must be rewarded again "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/11/distressed-state-of-the-country", "section": "distressed-state-of-the-country", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Hear\" from both sides of the House.", "preceding_text": "repared to assert, that it would be most advisable, both for the land-holder and stock-holder, that the former should surrender to the latter a part of his property, in liquidation of the debt that had been contracted. Indeed, as the stock-holder received, in the shape of interest, taxes from the landholder, it might be said that a part of the 272 land did at this moment absolutely belong to him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Hear, hear, from a member on the ministerial side.", "preceding_text": "on than they had ever been known before, and that the whole system of our ordinary was the best which could be adopted [Hear]; but he could not see why the gross amount of wear and tear under the head he had mentioned should be so great. The sums we had expended for wear and tear in building and repairs of ships in ordinary, since the war were, most enormous. They were not less than 17,000,000 l. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "that time, the building and repairing of the navy 625 had cost less than seven millions, instead of seventeen millions. The hon. gentleman compelled him to say, that he had been talking what the hon. gentleman metaphorically termed nonsense. Really, the hon. gentleman seemed to have mistaken stones for wood, land for water, storehouses for ships, the works at Sheerness for a fleet of first-rates. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "626 which the hon. gentleman had committed, he was astonished how he could come down and dictate to the House of Commons, and declare that he would sit there till ten o'clock to-morrow morning, and keep the House sitting too, unless papers, never before granted were laid before the House to enlighten his misinformation, which, in truth, it would take much longer than until that period to correct. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Mr. Hume \"no, no,\" order, order.", "preceding_text": "ere laid before the House to enlighten his misinformation, which, in truth, it would take much longer than until that period to correct. [A laugh.] The hon. gentleman did not even know the meaning of the term \"wear and tear.\" which he chose to call \"tear and wear.\" The hon. member had stated that we were building ships, and keeping them in ordinary to prevent the wear and tear of the fleet afloat "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Hear, hear, from Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "r, had been pleasuring and summer sailing, and giving balls and parties, and so forth. But this was not all; the hon. gentleman appeared to have forgotten his geography. He had forgotten that we had to send ships to the Mediterranean; that we had the British interests in South America to protect. Did the hon. member know that 627 our ships could not reach South America without doubling Cape Horn? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! and a laugh.", "preceding_text": " that we had the British interests in South America to protect. Did the hon. member know that 627 our ships could not reach South America without doubling Cape Horn? [Hear, hear, from Mr. Hume]. Well, then, if the hon. gentleman knew that, did he mean to say, that cruising off Cape Horn was yacht-sailing in summer, or that a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope was a party of pleasure under an awning? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Hear, hear, from Mr. Hume", "preceding_text": "the service in which he did not know whether the hon. member took an interest, but one in which certainly others did; namely, the naval service on the coast of Africa, for preventing the slave trade. Was that yacht-sailing, too, under an awning? Anybody must be struck with the ridicule of such a description, the moment the thing was properly exposed. He did not wish to misstate the hon. gentleman—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Hear, hear", "preceding_text": "ybody must be struck with the ridicule of such a description, the moment the thing was properly exposed. He did not wish to misstate the hon. gentleman—[Hear, hear, from Mr. Hume]—nothing would be such a gratuitous piece of malice; for the hon. gentleman himself furnished such ample opportunities of detecting his own mis-statements, that it would be had taste for any body else to take the trouble "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "A laugh", "preceding_text": "e of malice; for the hon. gentleman himself furnished such ample opportunities of detecting his own mis-statements, that it would be had taste for any body else to take the trouble [Hear, hear]. The hon. gentleman cast aside, in his sweeping allusions, the foreign stations, although reminded by an hon. friend of his of their existence, while he was speaking—he threw them overboard from the debate "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "each name was loudly cheered as the hon. gentleman repeated it.", "preceding_text": " a fear that bad men might be advanced to them. In order to show that little fear was to be entertained on this head, he read to the House the names of the persons who had been created generals of marines; they were as follow:—admiral Boscawen, the hon. J. Forbes, earl Howe, adm. Barrington, lord Bridport, and last (and he hoped he might long continue to fill the appointment) was earl St. Vincent "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": " he read to the House the names of the persons who had been created generals of marines; they were as follow:—admiral Boscawen, the hon. J. Forbes, earl Howe, adm. Barrington, lord Bridport, and last (and he hoped he might long continue to fill the appointment) was earl St. Vincent [each name was loudly cheered as the hon. gentleman repeated it.] Was there a danger of bad men from these examples? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "rom these examples? [Hear, hear.] The lieutenant generals [he read the commissions from the formation of the corps] were the following:—sir C. Saunders, sir H. Palliser, sir T. Pye, lord Bridport, and again, earl St. Vincent. The major-generals were—lord Gardner, lord Collingwood, sir R. Bickerton, sir G. Hope, sir R. Keates, and the name he pronounced with the greatest pleasure, sir G. Cockburn. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "ith the greatest pleasure, sir G. Cockburn. [Hear, hear.] Not a name of them all, unadorned with honours, titles, or dignities;—many high in the peerage, all having received for their deeds the thanks of parliament: and yet this was the list upon which the hon. member would put his reforming finger, and not one of them could he touch who was not a star in the bright galaxy of British naval glory. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "o do all he could to prevent its being obtained. But, though it would be impolitic to furnish a general account, such as that demanded by the hon. member, yet if he wished for an account connected with any specific abuse, he (Mr. C.) pledged himself to give the fullest information upon it. But he objected to the adoption of a principle which went to overturn a great principle of the constitution. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " it must be in our defence, had wisely entrusted the management and direction of that power to him. The hon. member concluded by observing, that the amendment, if adopted, would be productive of great inconvenience in time of peace, and if acted upon in a time of war, would go to put an end to the naval power of Great Britain, and, with that, he feared, our greatness and independence as a nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/22/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "A laugh!", "preceding_text": " for his merits. But the hon. gentleman said, that this was the most honourable, the most proper, the most gratifying mode of reward—that it formed a bond of union among all who experienced its effects. Perhaps, therefore, a pension of 1,500 l. a year, granted to an admiral who never mingled with his corps, as he might call this service, was the bond of union which bound him to it notwithstanding "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "Hear, and a laugh.", "preceding_text": "ardsmen say, damn Alderman Waithman, we are prepared for him, and have got a ball ready for him.\"—Let the committee be appointed, and they would see a great deal more of the folly of this great common council. But though for that purpose he second the motion, it would be for hon. members to consider whether it would be worth while to consume any of the time of the House in exposing such nonsense. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "rsons residing opposite the gates, and the result was his firm conviction, that the statement was altogether without foundation. He also assured the House, that he had never received any message from the sheriff during that day; and to those who knew him it would not be necessary to add, that if he had, he would not have sent such an answer, as that which it was said was delivered to the sheriff. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "l Monday, the 27th. In the course of the day, a great number of well-dressed persons were walking in the neighbourhood of the barracks, as was usual on sundays; and some time after the funeral had passed, he ordered the gates to be opened for their accommodation to pass through. He pledged his honour, that his only object in ordering the opening of the gates was for the convenience of the people. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " interference of the civil power, he sent for a magistrate, (sir N. Conant,) by whom the riot act was read; soon after which the people dispersed. He did not know what the House would do with the motion: for his own part, he could have no objection to it, being fully satisfied that the more the matter was inquired into, the more the good temper and forbearance of the troops would be made evident. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " admitting for argument's sake, that there had been provocation on both sides, the country had a right to expect more temper and forbearance from disciplined soldiers than from the people. Even though the people had been so misled as to throw stones and break the barrack windows, did that justify the soldiers in forcing their way from the barracks with arms in their hands and attacking the people "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": " he believed 72, of them sat in that House as part of the body which transferred the Crown from James II. and gave it to a more worthy sovereign. The common council of London had-formerly made the predecessors of the noble lord and the right hon. gentleman opposite shake in their seats; and if better times should arise, he trusted the common council would imitate the example of their predecessors "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "cries of hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "t deal for the esprit du corps. If the noble lord, however, was not to be: blamed for that, neither ought he (Mr. H.) to be blamed for his earnestness in behalf of the people. He certainly thought that the people of England had a right to know whether or not, as barracks were maintained in the heart of the metropolis, and soldiers kept in those barracks, they were to cut the throats of the people "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "ure publication; and he saw no reason why that power should not be exercised in this instance also. In fact, such publications were nothing more than ex parte statements, which were calculated to prejudice the public mind, and produce much evil without doing any good. He could not, viewing the entire transaction, but look on the conduct of Mr. Sheriff Waithman with feelings of horror and disgust. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "a laugh from the ministerial side?", "preceding_text": "ered; that, considering the irritated state of the people, and the resentment of the soldiery, a collision, hostile and bloody, was likely to take place. He did not say that it was in the power of government to control the passions of the people or of the soldiery; but could they not have prevented the irritated parties from meeting? Could they not have marched the troops out of town for that day "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "Loud cheering.", "preceding_text": " the metropolis were discountenanced firmly and steadily in that House—and if they were to be attributed to the people, and that protection afforded to them which the name of \"the people\" carried with it, they would sooner or later find that the consequence would be violence and bloodshed, either from the success of the turbulent, or the resistance necessary to be opposed to them by the military.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/feb/28/knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "section": "knightsbridge-barracks-complaint-of-an", "cue_text": "a laugh.", "preceding_text": " He was not a little surprised to find the hon. baronet make so unqualified an attack upon the corporation of London; nor was he less surprised to find his majesty's ministers treat the corporation with so much disregard. It was not long since those ministers had dined with the corporation; and on one occasion a gallant general had been entertained by them at an expense of not less than 25,000 l. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/jul/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/jul/26/superannuation-act-amendment-bill", "section": "superannuation-act-amendment-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " sorry to support any act of injustice, on the ground that it would make a saving of 100,000 l. a year to the country; but he hoped that those gentlemen who had said so much about 1850 lay lords of the Admiralty, and joint post-masters-general, would not he so high minded as to reject even such a trifling saving, when it was shown that it could be made without injury to any class of the community "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/jun/26/ministerial-pensions-bill", "section": "ministerial-pensions-bill", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "or his family, receive at present 3,000 l . per annum as the profit of this office, without being subject to any regulation whatsoever; and lord Sidmouth receives a farther sum of 3,000 l . per annum as a compensation for some injury which it is presumed some other person may sustain by some future regulation of this office, when lord Sidmouth's interst or that of his family therein shall cease.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/jun/26/ministerial-pensions-bill", "section": "ministerial-pensions-bill", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "individuals; but he felt it his duty to declare, that from the hapless day when lord Sidmouth quitted the chair of that House to become prime minister of this country—for which situation, in point of ability and talent, he was no more qualified than any of the door-keepers of the house—down to the present time, he had done nothing to deserve such a reward as that which had been bestowed upon him. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/jun/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/jun/26/ministerial-pensions-bill", "section": "ministerial-pensions-bill", "cue_text": "Immense cheering from the ministerial side", "preceding_text": "feelings of humanity should have induced them to abstain from introducing it. Taking all the circumstances into consideration, it was not without feelings of great disgust that he had heard the remarks of the hon. gentlemen, and he could not sit there without expressing his reprobation of language the most disgusting and disgraceful he had ever heard 1394 within the walls of a British parliament, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/05/army-estimates", "section": "army-estimates", "cue_text": "Loud cheers from the ministerial benches.", "preceding_text": "ainst his (Mr. Hume's) 922 profession. My profession, Continued Mr. Hume, is as well known as that of the gallant general; and if I were to ask him, what part of his professional conduct got him the regiment which he now has the honour to command, he would perhaps find more difficulty in answering the question than I should, were he to ask me to what measures my success in life was chiefly owing. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/08/banks-of-england-and-of-ireland", "section": "banks-of-england-and-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "97, had not taken place, how affairs would have gone on. Certain it was, that the war could not have been maintained with the energy which brought it to so successful a close; and some of the gentlemen opposite would assuredly not have enjoyed the high rents which they had been receiving. The Bank had invariably conducted themselves throughout the contest in conformity to the wishes of government "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ces to be made for superannuations to the secretaries and other inferior persons belonging to the establishment. Under these circumstances, then, the House must see that the board of control having begun, as I may say, gratuitously, has, step by step, gone on increasing in offices of emolument and patronage, until it has at length become the purchase of a particular family interest in this House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "n deny it. Here, then, is a board, which is the purchase, I repeat, of a family interest. I know very well that it may be said, \"It is true there are ten commissioners, there is the president, the noble marquis opposite, the secretary to the commissioners, and the other commissioners; but seven of them are mere outside passengers. As for the three inside places, they are reserved for the family.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "ard of; and yet, Sir, it is the board for the management of the affairs of India. One should not have much wondered, had these family gentlemen been scattered about, through the different departments of the public revenue. But no: this family must have a board to themselves, forsooth—no interlopers—no strangers—but all quite domestic. There they are, Mr. Speaker, a snug, comfortable family party. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "A laugh, and cheering", "preceding_text": "would equal the enormous price that might be obtained for it. But I know I shall be told, that there is no board, in fact, that it is only such in name; or, perhaps, that it is a nursery for our young statesmen: and really I am very much inclined to be of that opinion; and I will state the reason why. It happened, Sir, that once in my life, some few years ago, I was secretary to this board myself "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "A laugh", "preceding_text": "indow. But, lest my thirteen months experience should not have sufficiently qualified me to speak on this subject, I remember inquiring one day of a gentleman connected with the department, and possessing great accuracy and means of information, whether, within the memory of man, there had ever been a board? He answered, with great good nature and simplicity—\"Not within my recollection certainly. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order, order,\" accompanied by laughter.", "preceding_text": "s him 1,500 l. a year; but, by the single circumstance of his having crossed the floor, with his friends, the country has still to pay 1,500,000 l. a year, the amount of the salt tax. But a very little while ago, the doctor was the champion for the repeal of the salt tax; he was the foremost in the field against it; he was the leader; nothing could stop him; he must and would repeal it forthwith. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Cries of hear! hear! from sir Watkin Williams Wynn.", "preceding_text": " in the same bill which Mr. Sandys had usually supported, finding himself deserted by the friend with whom he was accustomed to concur in his votes, naturally enough makes these observations, which I shall trouble the House by reading to them. I need not claim attention, for I am sure of the attention of the House when I say that the name of the Speaker was no other than Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Hear hear!", "preceding_text": "at from what he knew of the duties of the office he held, and from the manner in which he discharged them (and he regarded it as a moral offence to take a salary of which he was not deserving), that he looked back with infinitely more satisfaction to the period he had occupied the office of secretary to the board of control, than the hon. gentleman could do, to the time during which lie, held it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "loud cheers, and laughter", "preceding_text": "ad now become little better than sinecure situations. Knowing, however, as he did, how the facts of the case stood, he felt that his expectation was too good to be true. He then thought that, perhaps, the hon. gentleman would come to the House, in a modest manner, with head abased and countenance suffused with blushes, and acknowledge that he had himself formerly been guilty of holding a sinecure "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "not said that the office of president was a sinecure. The fact was, he did not dare to joke with the right hon. gentleman who Wits a pretty severe practitioner in that art; he certainly knew, that the right hon. gentleman was not prepared to admit, that the office of Resident was a sinecure while he held it, as the hon. gentleman seems to have admitted was the case, with regard to his own office. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "at period, as holding sinecures; the one Mr. Hiley Addington, not now living; the other a4toble lord (Morpeth), who, owing to a proceeding which afforded a good specimen of the taste of the whips, was not now a member of the House, and with respect to whom he would say, that there was not in, the whole circle of public men, one less likely to fail in performing his duty faithfully to his country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " to him by proper persons. To say that one, two or three commissioners should be reduced, and that the business of the board could be then got through in a satisfactory manner, was to say what it was impracticable could be. If there were six commissioners to-morrow, instead of three, he would undertake to give them as much business as would afford full employment to each of them, for a fortnight. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ld afford full employment to each of them, for a fortnight. [A laugh.] On the other hand, if there should be found one commissioner who was not idle, but worked day and night; was never hungry, nor thirsty, nor tired, nor sleepy; he might, no doubt, get through the work to be done, in half the ordinary time, and might do as well as two; but then he ought to have a double salary for such exertions "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "usiness of the board was less efficiently carried on in the mode he had described; and with a constant communication existing between the president, the commissioners, and the secretary, on all matters that required their attention. The commissioners did not adopt all the forms of a board; but they left none of their duties unperformed: nor could they possibly be performed efficiently in that way "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " Courtenay) would be ready to meet the arguments that might be advanced by the hon. member (Mr. G. Bennet), and which had been adduced in this night's discussion by the flyover of the question. On a former occasion that hon. gentleman (Mr. Bennet), with less than his usual courtesy, had observed that he (Mr. Courtenay) and his noble friend (lord Binning) were of no use in that House, or elsewhere "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "s of very special importance, most intimately affecting the welfare and prosperity of our affairs in a considerable portion of the Bengal provinces. He thought he had shown sufficient grounds to the House for rejecting the motion; and he really did not expect that the hon. gentleman, fifteen years after quitting the situation in which he had acquired the ignorance upon which he founded his motion "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "iderable portion of the Bengal provinces. He thought he had shown sufficient grounds to the House for rejecting the motion; and he really did not expect that the hon. gentleman, fifteen years after quitting the situation in which he had acquired the ignorance upon which he founded his motion [a laugh], would have brought forward such a motion as the present. He should meet it by a direct negative "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "qui non feci,\" or rather \"qui nil feci\" —I am the man who did nothing; and I now call on you to inquire, why those who were associated with me, and who were diligent and laborious, failed to follow my example. I call on you to demand of them why they should thus break in upon the practice which my conduct went to establish, and disturb by their troublesome activity, the stillness of my stagnation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "ight to expect from his (Mr. Canning's) hands. His hon. friend had been nearly ten years in office—he was now to be amerced in one-tenth of his income by, the arrangement about to take effect with respect to all salaries—and that at a time when, he might beg leave to say (though this was not strictly a parliamentary argument) his hon. friend was in daily expectation of the birth of a tenth child. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "ow existed. What again resulted from that? That the president was made a responsible minister, with two salaried assistants, whose services he might command and profit by, if it were not his own fault; and, if they failed in the discharge of their duty, he (Mr. Canning.) would 1156 recommend their removal with as little ceremony as he would that of an idle, loitering, newspaper-reading secretary. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/mar/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/mar/14/board-of-control", "section": "board-of-control", "cue_text": "a laugh.", "preceding_text": "siness: after this, for them to complain that more attention was not shown towards them, and that they were not asked to assist at the board with their counsel, was about as reasonable as it was in the lady in Blue Beard, who, being allowed to amuse herself with the curiosities in ninety-nine apartments, was miserable because she was not permitted to enter the blue chamber which was the hundredth "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/10/roman-catholic-peers-bill", "section": "roman-catholic-peers-bill", "cue_text": "Hear hear!", "preceding_text": "stion, which took place in the other House of parliament about eight years ago, having seen a noble lord with his son, a lad about twelve years of age, standing at the bar of the House. The nobleman to whom he alluded, turned round to a friend of his, and said, \"The result of this night's discussion will determine me whether I shall encourage or repress the spirit of emulation in this boy's mind\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/10/roman-catholic-peers-bill", "section": "roman-catholic-peers-bill", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "ing peers and not admitting commons, it was a discrepancy that had existed for a century. In conclusion, he was ready to vote for any bill, the effect of which would be to remove any of the disabilities, however unimportant, under which the Roman Catholics labourd. Mr. Martin , of Galway, said, the hon. and learned member for Oxford had come forward on the present occasion as one of the Horiatii. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/10/roman-catholic-peers-bill", "section": "roman-catholic-peers-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": " invasion of the country; but I think I have a right to call upon him to show me some little danger to justify 515 his opposition to this measure. I do not insist upon his searching history, but his own imagination, which is less likely to fail him, for some little scantling of danger; and if he will show me that as arising from my plan, I give him my word I will sit down and withdraw this bill.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/10/roman-catholic-peers-bill", "section": "roman-catholic-peers-bill", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": " combat was passed—the Catholics tendered a willing submission, —Vicisti, et victual tendere palmas Ausonii videre: tua est Lavinia conjux. \"You,\" said the Catholics, \"have wedded the state: we no longer pretend to be rivals; we wish to be united with you in friendship; we are willing to live quietly under your reign; we call upon you to deal out an equal measure of justice and mercy towards us.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/10", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/10/roman-catholic-peers-bill", "section": "roman-catholic-peers-bill", "cue_text": "Loud cheers.", "preceding_text": "inhuman. He called upon them to redeem themselves from the imputation of adapting their own conduct to that uncharitable 518 and unfeeling principle which they ascribe to the Catholic community, and to concede a gift which, if given with grace, would be received with gratitude, and tend to cement in one bond of union the people of the Catholic creed with the professors of the Protestant religion. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/13/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "d degrade such a country as this? For his own part, he contemplated national dishonour, national perfidy, and national robbery, with horror—with more than horror, if he had a word to express such a feeling; and he hoped that death would close his eyes for ever, before he witnessed the degradation of his country—he hoped he should be spared the misery of contemplating the infamy of his native land "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/13/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "e reflection, that if the gentlemen opposite were true to their, own interest, they would create more influence by adopting principles of rigid economy, than they could by any other means. He should trespass no farther on their time, but to observe, that the moment they violated public credit, that moment misery and discord would overwhelm the country, and the sun of England would be set for ever "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/13/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ould there be seen in that country an excessive supply of all commodities in all markets—an overproduction of all the productions of the earth—no adequate market, no adequate demand—the farmers there, if they had leases would be, to a man, ruined—the landlords if there were taxes and debts would be in a situation little better, and one general scene of derangement, confusion and ruin, would ensue "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/13/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ising people, as an intolerable burthen—unless, indeed, there existed there a body of country gentlemen so patient as to permit their burthens and engagements to be thus increased—their tenantry to be ruined that it was their duty to protect—their own fortunes to be sacrificed; their station in society subverted, and the prospects of their families destroyed, by a miserable operation such as this "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/13/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "so readily discovered a ground for the increase of his fees and emoluments, would be equally prompt—whenever this alteration again took place—to propose himself—a reduction of those emoluments to the old scale; and that he would not dream of making a miserable juggle like this the ground of a permanent encroachment on the resources of this generous and credulous, but distressed and abused country "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/13/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "lourishing amidst the ruin of those from whose resources it was drawn—that was a state of things which the right hon. secretary might look on with satisfaction, though he did not. He could look with satisfaction on no revere which was not commensurate with the resources of the people, nor could he see any thing which in his mind was more ominous than a taxation increasing with the public distress "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/13/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ished. Would you derange again, it was asked, a system now established, a change now complete? Complete was it said? It was at that moment in the midst of its operation. There was not a day, nor an hour, in which that most iniquitous measure was not now working wrong, and injustice, and fraud, and disguised robbery in every part of the empire to its furthest extent, and in its remotest districts. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/13/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ne great operation, necessarily connected with those measures, necessarily arising out of them, demanded in necessity and justice: by those measures which had not even commenced. That was, the reduction of salaries; that was, the reduction of pensions; that was, the reduction of every description of pay, and pension, and salary of all the servants of the Crown, in all the departments of the state "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1822/may/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1822/may/13/agricultural-distress", "section": "agricultural-distress", "cue_text": "Here some gentleman interrupted Mr. Peel, for he purpose of informing him, that the member for Callington was Mr. Matthias Attwood, and not Mr. Thomas Attwood.", "preceding_text": "the witness whom he had quoted. That witness was asked, \"Has there been no circumstance in the last two years but supply and demand to determine the price of any of the 552 necessaries of life?\" To which he replied, \"Certainly; nothing can determine he price of articles but the relative state of supply and demand.\" That was an admission which the hon. member seemed to have forgotten that evening. "}