{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/feb/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/feb/12/artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "section": "artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "subject had already been partially taken up by others, and that it was surrounded with more formidable difficulties than he had at first anticipated. At the end of last session he had given notice that he would, early in the present, fulfil his undertaking; and he had done so by the advice, and in hopes of the assistance, of a distinguished individual, whose recent loss the kingdom had to deplore "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/feb/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/feb/12/artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "section": "artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "cue_text": "hear, hear! from all parts of the House", "preceding_text": "that his aid on such a question would have been of the utmost value. When he remembered the manner in which his lamented friend had always delivered his opinions, and the candour of moderation he invariably displayed towards his opponents, he might boldly assert, that there was not a member on any side of the House, who would for a moment deny the extent of the loss the country had thus sustained "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/feb/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/feb/12/artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "section": "artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ed, still did not wish to remove the restriction, until it was seen what parliament intended to do on the subject of the emigration of artizans. In some points he (Mr. Hume) fully concurred with those adversaries of its repeal, and he was not less satisfied, that it was the duty of the House to take care that the question of the emigration of artizans was fully, and by no means hastily considered "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/feb/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/feb/12/artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "section": "artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ves. It was also very important, in relation to this point, to mention, that it was the decided opinion of the hon. and learned member for Peterborough (Mr. Scarlett) that if all the penal laws against combinations by workmen for increase of wages were struck out of the Statute-book, the common law of the land would still be amply sufficient to prevent the mischievous effects of such combinations "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/feb/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/feb/12/artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "section": "artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "iven rate of wages. It would be incumbent on the House to look narrowly into the subject: strong prejudices existed regarding it in the manufacturing districts, many of which had been engendered by the law itself, and ought therefore to be carefully and tenderly removed. He could not conclude without thanking the hon. member for Aberdeen, whose industry and diligence could be exceeded by no man's "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/feb/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/feb/12/artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "section": "artizans-machinery-combination-laws", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": ", that he was convinced that the diligent inquiry of the committee would produce a report which would enable the House to retain what was useful in the laws to which the motion referred, to clear from the Statute-book such of them as were useless, unnecessary, and impracticable, and to substitute in their stead such amendments as would best promote the commercial interest and glory of the country "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/jun/14/breach-of-privilege-mr-gourlay", "section": "breach-of-privilege-mr-gourlay", "cue_text": "hear hear", "preceding_text": "ed proofs of unsoundness, that he was of unsound mind on Friday last, when he assaulted a member of the House, and that he continues in the same state. \"We have the honour to remain, Sir, &c. Edward Thomas Monro, M. D. George L. Tuthill, M. D.\" § Mr. Canning said, that after what the House had just heard, it was hardly expedient to follow the usual course of calling the individual to the bar "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/jun/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/jun/14/reversal-of-attainders", "section": "reversal-of-attainders", "cue_text": "Cries of \"hear.\"", "preceding_text": ". He yielded to no man in loyalty to the House of Hanover, and most painfully did he feel the distinction by which he suffered on the present occasion. Though the blood from which he was collaterally descended from lord Burleigh, who died without issue, was pure and untainted, yet still was he, and those who were to succeed him, excluded from the royal grace. Was that exclusion to be perpetuated? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/08/sugar-duties", "section": "sugar-duties", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ng the distillation of sugar was at least disinterested. He did not see the slightest objection to allowing sugar to come into competition with barley, when barley could be imported; at present it was, he believed, within 5 d . per quarter of the importation price; but, in the peculiar state of the West-India interests, he had no objection to the immediate admission of sugar into the distilleries "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/08/silk-trade", "section": "silk-trade", "cue_text": "hear hear!", "preceding_text": "n. member of Taunton, be he who he might, representing the woollen manufactures of his constituents, would have risen in his place, and said, \"How can you propose such a measure? The woollen manufactures have been the staple trade of this country for ages; and how can you expect that England, which possesses so little machinery, can compete in the cotton trade with India, where labour is so cheap "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/08/silk-trade", "section": "silk-trade", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "t would unquestionably have been a curious question to solve, whence arose the strange alteration in female dress? Gentlemen would then have exclaimed, \"so strongly did our ancestors feel the importance of the woollen trade, that the very shrouds of their dead were composed of that ma- 805 nufacture; and can there be a stronger argument in favour of maintaining this most valuable staple commodity "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/08/silk-trade", "section": "silk-trade", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": ", of every description, did not exceed 864,000 ., whilst at that period our woollen exports amounted to nearly five millions; the proportion between the two commodities being at that time five to one. But, how stands the case at present? Why, Sir, from that period to the present, that is, from the year 1785 to the year 1822, the cotton exports have risen to the incredible amount of 33,337,000 l . "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/08/silk-trade", "section": "silk-trade", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "e the pre-eminent advantage which arises from the circumstance of allowing capital to run in a free and unrestricted channel; when I contemplate the benefits which the country has derived from the application of sound principles to this single branch of commerce; am I not justified in endeavouring to prevail upon the committee to extend those principles which have produced such invaluable results "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/08/silk-trade", "section": "silk-trade", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "dered indifferent to exertion by the indolent security of a prohibitory system. I have not the slightest doubt, that if the same system had been continued with respect to the cotton manufacture, it would at this moment be as subordinate in amount to the woollen, as it is junior in its introduction into this country. I am afraid I have already trespassed too long upon the patience of the committee "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/08/silk-trade", "section": "silk-trade", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "day I have had an interview with the deputation from Manchester, and they state it as the opinion of the manufacturers of that town, that if time be given them, they would not be afraid to compete with the manufacturers of France in any market in the world; and from the increasing improvement in machinery, they look forward to the prospect of beating their rivals in every other branch of industry "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/08/silk-trade", "section": "silk-trade", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " not conceive what satisfaction the manufacturers were to derive from the postponement of two years and a quarter, which only put the danger off for that time. He trusted, however, that they would use the opportunity for preparing against the consequences, which would surely arrive at the end of that time. For his part, he protested against the proposition of free trade, unless they were prepared "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/11/game-laws-amendment-bill", "section": "game-laws-amendment-bill", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "prohibition of the sale of game is utterly inoperative. In point of fact, game is already sold as openly as it could be if the law were repealed. The hon. and learned member for Oxford spoke of the heads of corporations. Is it conceivable, Sir, that, the head of a corporation—an \"animal propter convivia natum\"—could be restrained by any penal enactment from the indulgence of his appetite for game "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/11/game-laws-amendment-bill", "section": "game-laws-amendment-bill", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "ouse gave them a great deal more; for they gave the learned doctors, both of law and divinity, as well as the right worshipful mayors of corporations, the power of eating that lawfully, which before was illegal diet; and, in his judgment, the lawyers, and doctors, and heads of corporations, would be much better pleased at receiving the privilege of eating game than of shooting it according to law "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/11/mutiny-bill-flogging", "section": "mutiny-bill-flogging", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": " subsequently mortified. The man of course died. A coroner's inquest was held upon his body; and the verdict returned by the jury, after a considerable examination into the subject, was, \"Wilful murder, committed by some person or persons unknown.\" But, though it was now three or four years since that verdict had been given, no proceedings had been taken upon it from that time down to the present "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/11/mutiny-bill-flogging", "section": "mutiny-bill-flogging", "cue_text": "Cries of No, no.", "preceding_text": "en, no proceedings had been taken upon it from that time down to the present [hear, hear]. He should like to hear from the noble lord opposite, whether there was any truth in the statement which had been made by an hon. member on a former evening; namely, that when a soldier was punished in the Guards, part of his pay went to the hospital, and part to the fund set aside for the officers' dinners? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/11/mutiny-bill-flogging", "section": "mutiny-bill-flogging", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "g to the ears and minds of the neighbouring inhabitants? In the battalion of Grenadier Guards which had been stationed there for the last six months, there had been only one instance of corporal punishment; and in the battalion of Coldstream Guards to which he had the honour to belong, and which had been there for the six months previous, there had been no instance of corporal punishment whatever "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/11/mutiny-bill-flogging", "section": "mutiny-bill-flogging", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "ms. The fact was, that, during the last year, only one instance of the kind had occurred, and that flogging was abolished in the Guards, excepting under very extraordinary circumstances. With regard to the contemptible charge which had been made upon the officers of the Guards, and that too in no very delicate terms, for the pay of the men was said to have gone into \"the pockets of the officers,\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/12/annual-duties-bill-foreign-brandies", "section": "annual-duties-bill-foreign-brandies", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "e had taken occasion last session to deprecate the absurdity of preventing the importation of whiskey into England. He had stated at that time, that he had whiskey in his house: he avowed that he had smuggled whiskey in his house then, and he avowed it still; for if such foolish laws were made, they ought to be broken. He would continue to break such a law; and let them find him out if they could "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/12/propagation-of-the-gospel-in-the-colonies", "section": "propagation-of-the-gospel-in-the-colonies", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "observation as to irregularities was not meant to be general. Many of the most honourable characters were connected with that most useful body. § Mr. Goulburn said, that if the hon. member supposed that the whole of the religious establishment of those colonies was supported out of this grant, he was much mistaken. In Canada, tracts of barren land were set apart for the support of the clergy "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/12/propagation-of-the-gospel-in-the-colonies", "section": "propagation-of-the-gospel-in-the-colonies", "cue_text": "Cries of \"read, read\"", "preceding_text": " which he wished inquiry to be made. With respect to the missionaries, he did not believe that they would be found, when the matter was investigated, to have been inculcating those fanatical and dangerous doctrines to which the hon. baronet seemed to allude. He held in his hand a copy of the resolutions of the hon. baronet's constituents at Newcastle, which showed what they thought on the subject "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/16/amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "section": "amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "cue_text": "Loud cries of No! no!", "preceding_text": "ow the right hon. gentleman, and take the heads of his statement, in the order in which he has submitted them to the House. First, as to the Flogging of Females. That practice is to be abolished in Trinidad. So far I rejoice. At present, a female slave, the; mother or the wife of a negro, may, in the presence of her son or her husband, be stripped nuked, stretched upon the earth, and cart-whipped "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/16/amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "section": "amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "ust here tell the House most sincerely and solemnly, that it was his deliberate and fixed opinion and belief—an opinion which, as far 1147 as it could be confirmed, had been confirmed—that they were now standing on the brink of a precipice, and that if they did not take great care, they would find that the more they paused, the less energetic they were, the greater was the danger likely to become "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/16/amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "section": "amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "eeing the cup of happiness which had been offered them, dashed from their lips, just at the very moment when they hoped to have quaffed the sweet draught of liberty which had just before danced before their eyes. The consequence, he feared, would be, that, despairing of relief from the British parliament, they would take the cause into their own hands, and endeavour to effect their own liberation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/16/amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "section": "amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "with entertaining visionary and impracticable opinions, refer to the authority of the late lord Melville, when Mr. Dundas. He was as little of a theorist or visionary, as any man that ever lived. He was not fond of dealing in abstract speculations or theories, but he was a man gifted with an astonishing degree of plain, strong, practicable, good sense, in short, with a sound Scotch understanding, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/16/amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "section": "amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": " at stake on the other, the House could no longer stand still: they must proceed, and do something decisive. His majesty's government should no longer suffer itself to be blown about, session after session, by every wind; at one time, in obedience to the wishes of the West-Indian interests, and, at another, in deference to the opinion of that party, which for shortness, he would call \"the Saints\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/16/amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "section": "amelioration-of-the-condition-of-the", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "amount, in a situation of evident risk and hazard. One of the parties to this question had taken it up very energetically. He scarcely knew by what name to designate thern—perhaps, the \"Anti-Slavery Society\" would answer the purpose as well as any other. This society had raised large subscriptions, and was in the practice of sending its emissaries about to disturb every market town in the kingdom "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/mar/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/mar/30/new-churches", "section": "new-churches", "cue_text": "cries of name! name!", "preceding_text": " church in Langham-place and admitted that it was not the most ornamental in the metropolis. But if the new street built under the auspices of his right hon. friend was looked to as a whole, he apprehended that a general charge of bad taste could not be established. The church in question certainly would be better away, but it might not be easy to remove it. He would rather not name the architect "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ed into, whether the evil could be remedied or not, if it were only for the purpose of carrying into effect compositions which it was obvious could not be made while such feelings of irritation existed. Another of the evils of Ireland were the Orange and Riband Lodges. It was difficult to say which of these was the 662 worse, as regarded the tranquillity of Ireland; but, both ought to be put down "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " right hon. gentleman's political conduct hitherto had not inspired him (lord A.) with the greatest confidence; but, now that the right hon. gentleman was in the highest situation that he could hold—for no situation could be found in Europe, or even in the world, which could be said to be a promotion to him—he culled upon him to exert the powers of his distinguished station to this most noble end "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "loud cheering", "preceding_text": "t it wisely. He called upon him to pursue that manly and consistent course which was equally required of him by his own reputation and by the interests of Ireland, and to support the question which he should now propose. In doing so, he was sure the right hon. gentleman 664 would have the support of every liberal-minded man in the House; and the approbation of every such man throughout the empire "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "nishment, he suffered under its infliction with the triumph of a martyr, and not with the compunction of a criminal. All the noble traits of such a man's original character became degraded and debased. His courage was converted into ferocity, his intelligence into fraud; his whole state and Condition was gradually deteriorated; and the peasant was at length lost in the murderer and the incendiary "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "d the succeeding century opened with the establishment of that dreadful penal code, which had left prejudices in the minds of the Irish people not yet eradicated. Who was entitled to say that he was prepared with a specific remedy for such complicated evil? What man was there to absurdly sanguine as to imagine, that he could close in an hour a wound which bad been kept open and festering for ages "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " that proceeded from them came with the weight of acknowledged authority. If there was one measure more than any other which ought to be adopted by those 697 who wished to ameliorate the condition of the Irish people, it was, that the Catholic clergy of Ireland should be very much raised in the scale of society. It was, above all, desirable that their elevation should be the act of the government "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "sed of distinguished talents, of profound erudition, of unwearied industry, enjoying and deserving the confidence of the public, by the purity of their honour, the soundness of their integrity, their love of truth, and their manly spirit; and well qualified to fill every situation which the law opened to them, with the highest credit to themselves, and with the greatest advantage to their country "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "government which he wished to see; but an impartial government. What recommended the present government of Ireland to him was, that, in his conscience, he believed that government to be perfectly impartial; and because he believed that no man, either here or in Ireland, was preferred or neglected on account of his having given this opinion or that opinion, on the question of Catholic emancipation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ctical inquiry. He found the Protestant church established; and all he now asked was its character? He had lived with the Protestant clergy from his youth. The men with whom he had been linked in the closest habits of affectionate intercourse were members of the Protestant church of Ireland. He knew no class so distinguished for its worth, for its talents, for its virtues, aye, for its liberality "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ich his father had granted, with a view of discovering in them such flaws as would be proved productive. Having effected this important purpose, he went to England; and his tenants and countrymen knew nothing more of him until they saw in the newspapers that in a debate either in that or in the other House of parliament, he had indulged in invidious reflections on the Protestant clergy of Ireland "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "tion as something which would advantageously call forth the opinion of gentlemen well acquainted with Ireland, to such an object he could not possibly object. But if on the other hand, the noble lord thought that his motion would lead to any practical result, he entirely differed from him. The fact was, that the subject was infinitely too large and complicated for the investigation of a committee "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "loud cheers", "preceding_text": "reland would, at length, after a series of efforts, some more, some perhaps less successful, attain a just share of power and prosperity. Let all prejudices be laid aside, both in Ireland and in England; and both nations would then mutually assist each other, and both nations, borrowing and receiving reciprocal counsel and strength would enter on a new career of wisdom, of happiness, and of power "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "Cheers, mingled with cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "as the great question of parliamentary reform, to which they were as strongly pledged as to the question of Catholic emancipation. [Murmurs of discontent from the Opposition]. Were they, or were they not, pledged to parliamentary reform? The country at least believed so. It was generally understood, that they were bound not to accept office without the condition of effecting parliamentary reform. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "laughter and cheers.", "preceding_text": "ot his (Mr. T's) proposition. He referred to what the right hon. gentleman might have done of himself. Did he suppose that he was stopped from his emigration out of any strong respect or affection for him? Was he not aware, that there was one member in the cabinet—and that not 721 an inconsiderable one—who thought that there was very little to choose between the right hon. gentleman and the Pope? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "loud cheers", "preceding_text": " which went no further than to put the English Catholics on the same footing with the Irish. It was carried almost unanimously in this House; but when it was sent up, he ought to say down, to the lords, it was rejected by a large majority. And all this confusion might, perhaps, be traced to the sentiments of one man in that House, and the future views of interested politicians with respect to him "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/11/state-of-ireland", "section": "state-of-ireland", "cue_text": "Continued laughter and cheers.", "preceding_text": "make all his old speeches over again, they would occasionally answer his arguments; but they would never ask him to give up his admiration for old Sarum and the other rotten boroughs. Let him not labour at misconceptions, but take matters as they stood. If he would pursue the course most glorious to himself, they were there ready with- their support for him; if he refused, they could not help it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1824/may/11", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1824/may/11/austrian-loan-bill", "section": "austrian-loan-bill", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "; and when that other day arrived, the court must have required again to be refreshed. At last, when the law and the lawyers had had their full swing, and twenty years had been spent in forwarding the cause, the court must have pronounced its decree, by which the emperor was ordered to pay the account of 2,500,000 l ., while we paid by far the greater sum to the lawyers, and for the bill of costs "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1824/may/11", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1824/may/11/austrian-loan-bill", "section": "austrian-loan-bill", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "to diminish the expenses of law proceedings for the recovery of small debts. Government had found it so difficult to recover this debt from Austria, that it was willing to facilitate the recovery of other debts. 883 Then, from the experience of the evils of delay in our suit with the emperor, ministers had seen the propriety of instituting inquiry into the causes of delay in the court of chancery "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "r England, and thus banish him from the country. However, Mr. Arnot was determined not to submit, and accordingly he applied to the supreme court, and obtained a writ of habeas corpus, and at length, after an able and solemn argument at the bar by Mr. Turton, a gentleman whose talents and character have made him in that country, what he was in this, a most distinguished ornament of his profession "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "eers], his imprisonment was declared to be illegal, and he was consequently liberated by order of the presiding judge. Mr. Athot then determined to take advan- 864 tage of his liberty, and betook himself to the foreign settlement of Chandernagore; and here again he was forcibly seized by a military officer, in the very presence of the French governor, under a second warrant signed by lord Amherst "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "o take advan- 864 tage of his liberty, and betook himself to the foreign settlement of Chandernagore; and here again he was forcibly seized by a military officer, in the very presence of the French governor, under a second warrant signed by lord Amherst [hear, hear], and placed as a prisoner on board a ship in the river Hooghly, not bound direct to the united kingdom, but going round by Bencoolen "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "reatment of Mr. Buckingham himself was founded. This was done in the following November, in consequence of an order from the chief secretary for the suppression of the paper. The ground alleged for its suppression was, the publication in its pages or a pamphlet written by an hon. friend of mine, Mr. Leicester Stanhope, who is now gloriously employed in advancing the cause of freedom and of Greece "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "s now gloriously employed in advancing the cause of freedom and of Greece [cheers]. The main object of this pamphlet was, to record the speeches of some of the king's judges and officers in 1819, delivered on the very occasion of voting the address to which I have alluded; and yet it was made criminal to re-publish in this Journal those same speeches which had appeared long before in other papers "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "o which I have alluded; and yet it was made criminal to re-publish in this Journal those same speeches which had appeared long before in other papers [hear, hear]. However, shortly after, the government caused it to be made known, that a license would be granted for the renewal of the Journal; but, on what condition? Why, on the condition that its future editor should be one of their own servants "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "on the ground that he was not sufficiently under their control; and at length a person was found, considered to be unexceptionable in every respect, Dr. Muston, the son-in-law of one of the members of the government, and he was appointed to the situation of editor, with a salary of 1,000 l . a-year, together with Mr. Buckingham's house, which had been let to an English merchant for 500 l . a-year "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "arrative of this case, and I trust I have succeeded in making it intelligible without encumbering it with details [hear!] I shall refrain, on the present occasion, from making any remarks on the general question as to the advantage of a free press in India, and the more particularly, because it is my intention, early in the ensuing session, to call the attention of the House to the subject "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "[hear, hear", "preceding_text": "king any remarks on the general question as to the advantage of a free press in India, and the more particularly, because it is my intention, early in the ensuing session, to call the attention of the House to the subject [hear, hear!]; when I mean to move for the appointment of a committee to inquire how far the existence of a free press is an advantage or injury to our Indian possessions "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "loud cheers", "preceding_text": "e acts of parliament which give the East-India company their power in India will be efficient, only when their profit and dominion are concerned, but powerless when the liberties and properties of Englishmen are at stake—and the grossest acts of tyranny and injustice may, in future, be perpetrated with such impunity, as may ultimately, I fear, endanger the very existence of our supremacy in India "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "he feelings of the petitioner. He repeated, that his sole motive in what he had done was, to call public attention to the subject. He did not know any thing of the petitioner. He did not know Mr. Adam, or the marquis of Hastings. Of lord Amherst, all that he knew was, that he had proved his sturdy independence, to the surprise of all well bred mandarins, by refusing to perform the Kotou in China, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1824/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/25/liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "section": "liberty-of-the-press-in-india-petition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": ", when he received a statement of oppression and cruelty, supported by men of the highest character and respectability, fearless of all consequences, and regardless of the rank and power of the individuals whom that statement might implicate, to perform his duty, by placing it before those who called themselves the Commons of England. If they refused to grant redress, on their heads was the blame "}