The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons, Volume 6J. Debrett, 1777 |
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Page 317 - I shall apply for compensation to the justices of the peace at a special petty sessions to be holden at on the day of next, at the hour of in the forenoon...
Page 302 - His Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which His subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the Territory of Spain in that part of the world...
Page 125 - Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pensylvania, the Three Lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland...
Page 311 - Majefty that it may be enacled ; and be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the...
Page 13 - King's speech, wherein he assures Parliament, " that as well from the assurances I have received, as from the general appearance of affairs in Europe, I see no probability that the measures, which you may adopt, will be interrupted by disputes with any foreign power?
Page 257 - ... Honduras, and other places of the Territory of Spain in that part of the world, four months after the ratification of the present Treaty : and His Catholic Majesty shall not permit His Britannic Majesty's subjects, or their workmen, to be disturbed, or molested...
Page 33 - Patterson then proceeded to say that the goodness and benevolence of the King had induced him to appoint Lord Howe and General Howe his commissioners to accommodate the unhappy dispute; that they had great powers, and would derive the greatest pleasure from effecting an accommodation; and that he (Colonel Patterson) wished to have this visit considered as making the first advances to this desirable object.
Page 124 - That an humble addrefs be prefented to His Majefty, " that he will be gracioufly pleafed to give directions that " there be laid before this Houfe, copies of information re«.
Page 206 - Hon. the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament aflembled. The humble petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons, of the city of London in Common Council aflembled...
Page 133 - ... tillage to be sown with corn and grain, and for hemp and flax in great quantity, for making all sorts of linen cloth and cordage for shipping...