Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria, 第 1 巻Hurst and Blackett, 1861 |
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abuse amendment appeared attack attention Belgium Believe borough Brougham brought forward character Civil List commenced Committee considered course Crown DEAR DUKE debate declaration discussion division Duke of Buckingham Duke of Wellington duty Earl Grey England excited existing expressed favour feeling following day France French friends Grace the Duke honour House of Commons House of Lords Hume Hunt influence intention Ireland Irish King King's speech labour late letter London Lord Althorp Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon Lord Grenville Lord Grey Lord John Russell Lord Sidmouth Majesty majority Marquis of Londonderry ment Ministers mischief motion moved O'Connell object opinion opposed opposition Parliament parliamentary reform party peers persons political popular presented a petition Prince proceedings proposed question received Reform Bill repeal reply respecting royal second reading sincerely Sir Robert Peel Sovereign Speaker subsequently throne tion tithes Union VANE LONDONDERRY vote Whigs
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201 ページ - The danger is terrible. The time is short. If this bill should be rejected, I pray to God that none of those who concur in rejecting it may ever remember their votes with unavailing remorse, amidst the wreck of laws, the confusion of ranks, the spoliation of property, and the dissolution of social order.
201 ページ - ... pride of a fatal consistency, but of history, of reason, of the ages which are past, of the signs of this most portentous time. Pronounce in a manner worthy of the expectation with which this great Debate has been anticipated, and of the long remembrance which it will leave behind. Renew the youth of the State. Save property divided against itself. Save the multitude, endangered by their own ungovernable passions.
201 ページ - Save the greatest, and fairest, and most highly civilized community that ever existed, from calamities which may in a few days sweep away all the rich heritage of so many ages of wisdom and glory. The danger is terrible. The time is short.
115 ページ - Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough : — We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff! " I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death : Kingdoms shall shift about, like clouds, Obedient to my breath.
324 ページ - Garter, repaired to the east side of the theatre, where the Archbishop made the Recognition, and repeated the same at the south, west, and north sides of the theatre...
251 ページ - O'Connell made as usual a faint opposition; another discussion on the Eeform Bill came on on the following day, which preceded one on the borough of Weymouth. Subsequently there was a debate on the county of Clare ; after which the House went into a Committee of Supply. In the House of Lords, on the 14th, the Duke of Wellington presented a petition against reform from the noblemen, freeholders, justices of the peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the county of Dumbarton, and stated his opinion that...
128 ページ - Liberty or Death! Englishmen! Britons!! and honest men!!! The time has at length arrived — all London meets on Tuesday — come armed. We assure you, from ocular demonstration, that 6000 cutlasses have been removed from the Tower, for the immediate use of Peel's Bloody Gang — remember the cursed Speech from the Throne!! — These damned Police are now to be armed. Englishmen, will you put up with this?
200 ページ - Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform that you may preserve. Now, therefore, while everything at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless struggle against the spirit of the age, now, while the crash of the proudest throne of the continent is still resounding in our ears, now, while the roof of a British palace affords ignominious shelter to the exiled heir of forty kings...
336 ページ - To the consideration of this important question, the attention of parliament must necessarily again be called at the opening of the ensuing session ; and you may be assured of my unaltered desire to promote its settlement, by such improvements in the representation as may be found necessary for securing to my people the full enjoyment of their rights, which, in combination with those of the other orders of the state, are essential to the support of our free constitution.
354 ページ - When I wrote to the King in November on the armament of the political associations, I had in hand a case in which I was certain that nineteen-twentieths of the whole country would concur with me. I did it likewise at a period of the year at which I knew that, if the King wished to get rid of the bonds in which he is held, I could assist him in doing so. There was time to call a new Parliament...