{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/apr/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/apr/01/ellenborough-divorce-bill", "section": "ellenborough-divorce-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "nsiderations which were connected with the Bill, now that it was regularly brought before them; and therefore he contended that they ought to see the evidence printed before they proceeded further in their legislation upon it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer thought that this discussion was quite unnecessary, as the question had been already decided, that the bill should be reported to the House. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/apr/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/apr/01/ellenborough-divorce-bill", "section": "ellenborough-divorce-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No, no; that has been explained.\"", "preceding_text": "egligence, and misconduct on the part of the husband,— had not been bad in the present case. The 1133 Bill, therefore, was not accompanied by the ordinary guarantee which the House received as the basis of its legislation on subjects like the present. He was sure that the right hon. and gallant officer, who had seemed to throw blame upon those who bad taken an active part in this critical inquiry "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/apr/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/apr/01/trial-by-jury-in-scotland", "section": "trial-by-jury-in-scotland", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "d it was because the Judges were so efficient that he rejoiced to see, by the provisions of this bill—although he would have liked it better had the number of Judges been reduced to twelve—yet he rejoiced to see that, henceforth, Scotland was likely to derive a fuller and a juster share of benefit from the labours, the learning, and the talents of the eminent persons who now administered her laws "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/feb/08/malt-and-beer", "section": "malt-and-beer", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "worse off. If the hon. gentleman wanted reduction, let him begin with the lords of the bed-chamber, the lords of the Admiralty, or the lords of the Treasury, and he should have his most cordial assistance. § Mr. Hume said, if the hon. member for Clare was right in his principle, every sinecurist would have a right to say, \"continue my income, and I will spend it for the good of the country.\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/feb/08/mexico-cuba-spain", "section": "mexico-cuba-spain", "cue_text": "there being much noise in the House at the time", "preceding_text": "e Spanish war from the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, determined to undertake an expedition against those islands. At that period Colombia had an army and maritime squadron commanded by admiral Brion: there was another force belonging to Mexico at Vera Cruz, under admiral Porter; and the united armaments were superior to any force that Spain could collect in that quarter of the globe. He trusted "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/feb/08/lords-commissioners-speech", "section": "lords-commissioners-speech", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": " of recklessness and carelessness of every thing connected with domestic policy, what was to be said with reference to their conduct upon every thing relating to Foreign Affairs? If Ministers were charged with too great a resemblance of Whigs in their management of domestic affairs, on the Continent they were considered the most confirmed Tories that ever appertained to any party in this country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/feb/08/lords-commissioners-speech", "section": "lords-commissioners-speech", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "icy, which it was fondly hoped would be followed by his successors. The confidence, therefore, which the nation felt in Mr. Canning had been continued to his successors, and what had been the result? Why, that they had obtained the reputation of being considered the foes of every liberal institution, and of having leagued themselves in strict alliance with feeble sovereigns and bigoted ministers. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/feb/08/lords-commissioners-speech", "section": "lords-commissioners-speech", "cue_text": "hear and a laugh", "preceding_text": "d the House for support. They had come to the Opposition benches for a Paymaster of the Forces (Mr. Calcraft); then they sought an Attorney General (Sir J. Scarlett), from among the Whigs. They sought for a Master of the Mint in an hon. Member who had been amongst their greatest opponents; and unless they made another turn, and took a \"saint\" into their councils, he knew not what could save them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/feb/08/lords-commissioners-speech", "section": "lords-commissioners-speech", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "eous; but of that I shall now say at once, there never was any report so utterly unfounded, so wholly devoid of truth, as that any communication, either direct or indirect, was sent by any individual holding any situation in the Government of this country to any member of any party, or holding any situation in France, with respect to the appointment of prince Polignac to the head of its ministry, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/feb/08/lords-commissioners-speech", "section": "lords-commissioners-speech", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "connected with a great manufacturing house in Gloucestershire, who told him that their business was so good that the house had written to him to take no more orders, as they could not in six months comply with all they had already received, and that every hand which they had ever employed was in full work. He had also dined the other day with a gentleman who had been lately in Dublin, in Ireland, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/feb/08/lords-commissioners-speech", "section": "lords-commissioners-speech", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "had not done so on the first day of the session. Before he sat down, in justice to the Ministers, he must say, that judging of the general operation of their measures throughout the country, he could discover nothing of an unfortunate character which could with propriety be laid at the door of Government, and he should, on that account, be sorry to see the Administration embarrassed or disturbed, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/feb/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/feb/08/compositions-for-tithes", "section": "compositions-for-tithes", "cue_text": "hear, and a laugh", "preceding_text": "in the kingdom. There were two species of tithe obligations —lay and clerical—the commission would embrace the valuation of both. He would give the commissioners a power to sell at a fair market-value those tithes which belonged to lay proprietors. He said at a market value, for those tithes were a matter of daily sale—in fact were advertised in newspapers, and sold as common as a two penny loaf; "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1830/feb/08", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1830/feb/08/condition-of-the-slaves-in-the-west", "section": "condition-of-the-slaves-in-the-west", "cue_text": "All fines to be recovered in British sterling money, and between the limits fixed in the order, the court in its discretion to determine the amount of the fine.", "preceding_text": "lties as aforesaid, and also to regulate the manner in which actions shall be brought by or against any slaves in respect of any property which any such slaves are hereby authorized to acquire and possess, all which provisions and regulations of the said respective governors shall be as nearly as may be conformable to the laws and usages in force in the said colonies respectively. § LXXVIII. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1830/feb/25", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1830/feb/25/terceira", "section": "terceira", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "rliament, he circulated those opinions through the country at large for the purpose of regulating the conduct of the people. Lord Holland said, he understood from the explanation of the noble and learned Lord, that these confidential papers might be communicated to the public, but not to Parliament. This certainly was the most extraordinary description of confidential papers he had ever heard of. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1830/feb/25", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1830/feb/25/state-of-the-nation", "section": "state-of-the-nation", "cue_text": "hear, hear, hear! from the Duke of Richmond, and one or twoother Peers", "preceding_text": "0,000 l . to the liquidation of debt. I am aware that debt and taxation cannot now be interfered with in any degree approximating to the same proportion; but I think that a reduction of taxes might be effected to the extent of 1,700,000 l ., leaving 2,000,000 l . as a surplus to guard against contingencies, and to save the Government from the risk of being obliged to borrow money in time of peace "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1830/feb/25", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1830/feb/25/state-of-the-nation", "section": "state-of-the-nation", "cue_text": "cries of no, no.!", "preceding_text": "n this country, beyond what was deemed a remunerating price to the agriculturists. With reference to another branch of agriculture, at that moment he had the means of proving that the prices received for other articles of agricultural produce, such as meat, timber, &c, were fully equal to what they were when the Bank Restriction Act was in existence, and when the amount of taxes was the heaviest. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/02/mr-nash-crown-lands", "section": "mr-nash-crown-lands", "cue_text": "hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "ning Mr. Nash, because it would serve to show the spirit by which he was actuated. When the new street was first in agitation, Foley-house and gardens were offered for sale, and Mr. Nash gave 4,000 l. more than any other bidder, and afterwards cut it up into shreds and patches for the purpose of suiting the objects of the new street line, by which he greatly depreciated the value of his property, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/02/mr-nash-crown-lands", "section": "mr-nash-crown-lands", "cue_text": "The hon. Member was disposed to address the House at greater length but was interrupted by cries of \"Question.\"", "preceding_text": "or sale, and Mr. Nash gave 4,000 l. more than any other bidder, and afterwards cut it up into shreds and patches for the purpose of suiting the objects of the new street line, by which he greatly depreciated the value of his property, [ hear, hear. ] 1166 § Mr. Protheroe said, that the last Committee had decided upon good grounds, and the House ought not to go into any further investigation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/02/late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "section": "late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "cue_text": "hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "been subject elsewhere. In declining elsewhere to undertake the advocacy of the person charged with libel, he had reserved to himself the right of calling the attention of the House to some points which he considered as most important with regard to the privileges of the House, and the constitutional law of the land, certainly the most important which had ever been discussed since the Revolution, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/02/late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "section": "late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_text": "composed of Tories on Whig principles. He was one of the Tory party, and was sure that the proceedings lately instituted in Westminster Hall ought never to have been sanctioned either by a Whig or Tory Attorney General. It was said, that the Government was to be composed neither of Whigs nor Tories, but of what was called by the writers on the subject a tertium quid, without any principle at all. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/02/late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "section": "late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "ngerous, and this he would maintain was sound constitutional doctrine. But he would also maintain, that if any jury of twelve men, of men without coats, without shoes or stockings, without hats, that a jury, in fact, composed of complete sans culottes, that if such a jury were asked their opinion fairly upon this publication, not a single individual amongst them would pretend to call this a libel "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/02/late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "section": "late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "cue_text": "a laugh, as Sir C. Wetherell pointed to Mr. Brougham,", "preceding_text": " for a libel on Sir John Packington, the Member for Worcester. Since that time no similar case had occurred. There was no occasion for him to illustrate the impropriety of allowing an Attorney General to institute such proceedings. If the Attorney General had a right to file an information for a libel on Mr. A., a Member of that House, he would have a right to file it for a libel on Mr. B. there, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/02/late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "section": "late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "cue_text": "cries of \"No, no.\"", "preceding_text": "o sedition in existence when this paragraph first appeared, there was none in existence at present. And yet this man was sent to gaol for proclaiming the existence of distress at a time when not merely in the petitions of the people, but also in the speeches of their representatives, the universality of distress is made a nightly subject of discussion. Had he over stated this case, or had he not? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/02/late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "section": "late-ex-officio-prosecutions", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_text": "h which he acted, that he regretted that the learned Gentleman should appear to connect himself or his party with the libels of the Morning Journal and Mr. Alexander—that he should speak of Mr. Alexander as the organ and representative of the Tory party. § Sir C. Wetherell —I used no such expression: neither those words, nor words synonymous; nor any thing which a fair man could so construe. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/26/pensions-for-the-hon-r-dundas-and-the", "section": "pensions-for-the-hon-r-dundas-and-the", "cue_text": "hear, and cries of \"No\"", "preceding_text": "r which superannuations were granted, and 952 involved an unjustifiable departure from its principles. It had been said, that these gentlemen had given up professions and embarked in these offices for life to the exclusion of other prospects. Unfortunately, however, for this statement, we found one of the gentlemen, subsequently to his appointment as Commissioner, accepting a diplomatic situation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/26/pensions-for-the-hon-r-dundas-and-the", "section": "pensions-for-the-hon-r-dundas-and-the", "cue_text": "Laugh", "preceding_text": "haps they would not have obtained their allowances just so readily. The hon. Member went on to read the memorial of serjeant Duncan Macdonald. It stated that the petitioner was an Out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital; that he had been seventeen years in the 66th regiment of foot, and had served five years in the West Indies; and that he was thirteen years drill serjeant of the South Lincoln Militia. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/mar/26", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/mar/26/pensions-for-the-hon-r-dundas-and-the", "section": "pensions-for-the-hon-r-dundas-and-the", "cue_text": "Cries of \"no, no,\"", "preceding_text": "e present case. The allowance, moreover, was purely of a temporary nature; for these two persons were to be appointed to the first civil situations which should fall vacant in the naval department. Colonel Dundas said, that he should not have intruded himself upon the House but for the unnecessary personality in which the hon. Baronet who brought forward the subject had thought proper to indulge. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/02/address-in-answer-to-the-kings-speech", "section": "address-in-answer-to-the-kings-speech", "cue_text": "assenting cheers from the Opposition", "preceding_text": "rs were qualified for so arduous an undertaking. But while he stated this he would add, that he should look at their measures, and if those measures appeared to him to be such as to deserve approbation, they should receive his most cordial support. He made that declaration for himself, but he believed it would also be found to express the sentiments and intentions of all his hon. friends near him "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/02/address-in-answer-to-the-kings-speech", "section": "address-in-answer-to-the-kings-speech", "cue_text": "cheers from several parts of the House.", "preceding_text": "ouse, that, as the first part of his duty, he must attend to the reduction of the public bur- 84 thens? He did not put that question to those who were their own nominees, nor to those who, by the use of unjust means of influence, had obtained seats in that House, but of all the rest he asked, whether they had not pledged themselves to effect for the people a great relief in the amount of taxation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/02/address-in-answer-to-the-kings-speech", "section": "address-in-answer-to-the-kings-speech", "cue_text": "Some observation was here made to the hon. Member, who continued", "preceding_text": " that question to those who were their own nominees, nor to those who, by the use of unjust means of influence, had obtained seats in that House, but of all the rest he asked, whether they had not pledged themselves to effect for the people a great relief in the amount of taxation [ cheers from several parts of the House. ] Yet not one word had been said in the Speech about reduction of taxation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/02/address-in-answer-to-the-kings-speech", "section": "address-in-answer-to-the-kings-speech", "cue_text": "cries of \"Order, 87 order\"", "preceding_text": "confined to the hon. member for Waterford? Then let him be named: let an Act of Parliament be passed against him: it would not be the first which had been enacted against him; for when he was duly returned to Parliament, an Act was contrived for the purpose of excluding him. The Ministers, however, had no right to say that Ireland was disaffected, merely because one Irishman was. If Mr. O'Connell "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/02/address-in-answer-to-the-kings-speech", "section": "address-in-answer-to-the-kings-speech", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "egislature.\" If I have a wish to rescue my country from the fangs of an odious oligarchy, I must pursue that course which has been so loudly censured by the right hon. Gentleman. He has talked of my conduct upon a recent occasion; and held me up to be repudiated by the supporters of the King's Speech. I am content. I am vindicated before my God; and I will not condescend to vindicate myself here. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/05/distress-of-the-country-inflammatory", "section": "distress-of-the-country-inflammatory", "cue_text": "loud laughter, and cries of hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ehensive that some very insidious designs were on foot. So much confidence had he in the good sense of the working classes of the community, that he was very much afraid that the belief of the hon. member for Kent, that the outrages which had been committed there were not the work of the population of the country, was well founded. When he coupled this with the other proceedings of the noble Duke "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/05/supply-recrimination", "section": "supply-recrimination", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Question.\"", "preceding_text": "a former night; and when he alluded to any,thing that had fallen from him that evening, he challenged the hon. Member to point out the expressions which were calculated to inflame the people. He had been misrepresented on more than one occasion. The other night, the hon. Alderman (Mr. Ald. Waithman) below him, having got \"a bee in his bonnet,\" incorrectly attributed to him what he had never said, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/05/supply-recrimination", "section": "supply-recrimination", "cue_text": "Cries of \"hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": " heard that word \"Question\" called, for the purpose of interrupting an hon. Member in debate, he gave fair warning that he would move that the Speaker do leave the Chair, and if only a few Members would stand by him, he would put a stop to that indecent custom. Nothing could be more indecent and unbecoming than for a set of men, who were utterly unworthy of places in the House, to come down there "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/05/patent-of-the-kings-printer", "section": "patent-of-the-kings-printer", "cue_text": "Hear, hear, from Mr. Spottiswoode.", "preceding_text": "roceeding. He, for one, protested against it, and if the patent had been renewed, he thought the House was bound, in the discharge of its duty, to bring to its bar the persons who had signed and sanctioned such a patent. He would not say, as the hon. Member to whom that patent was granted was not present, that it was on that account he voted for Ministers, but he never knew him vote against them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/22/the-late-and-the-new-ministry", "section": "the-late-and-the-new-ministry", "cue_text": "the hon. Member occupied his usual seat on the Opposition Benches,", "preceding_text": "tions with the members of his Majesty's late Administration, he regretted, upon other grounds, that some of them had been obliged to quit office. Though no ministry ever came into power in times of greater difficulty than those which marked the accession of the present Ministry, he rejoiced exceedingly that the principles which they professed had triumphed and he did not sit there to oppose them, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/22/reduction-of-official-salaries-new", "section": "reduction-of-official-salaries-new", "cue_text": "cries of \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_text": "er had stated. In the first instance, a day was fixed for entering into recognizances on the petitioner's own suggestion; and now further time was asked for, because the Master, acting on that suggestion, had fixed an improper day. It was for the House to say whether, under such circumstances, it felt disposed to receive this petition, or disturb the decision to which it had come upon the subject "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1830/nov/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1830/nov/22/public-disturbances-ballots-for-election", "section": "public-disturbances-ballots-for-election", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No.\"", "preceding_text": "turbances, Colonel Davies said, this was the second 632 or third leave of absence that had been moved for in consequence of the disturbances which unfortunately existed in various parts of the country. He put it to the good sense of the House to say, whether, under all the circumstances of the case, it might not be expedient to defer a great number of the Election Committees till after Christmas. "}