 | William Russell - 1839 - 620 σελίδες
...South Sen company 396 rapidly It falls as Ruined nnd distracted state of tile en. 397 stncklmld- W7 A committee of the house of commons appointed to inquire into the cheat practised upon the nation 397 1731 The chief promoters of that iniquitous scheme punished ; the... | |
 | James Grant - 1839 - 204 σελίδες
...Bakewell, the keeper of a private madhouse at Spring Vale, near Wakefield, stated, in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to .inquire into the subject of insanity, that he knew a man who had been, for the sigularly long period of fifty years,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 738 σελίδες
...the labourer, in stimulating his energies, are very instructively displayed in the evidence given to a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the administration of the poor laws under the control of the. Commissioners. • With respect to the number... | |
 | John Holland - 1841 - 518 σελίδες
...the safety-lamp devised by that individual was, although constantly used, the cause of a single ex* A Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the causes and prevention of accidents in coal mines, had been sitting some time, when the accident at... | |
 | 1842 - 380 σελίδες
...the House of Commons have done the same thing. The following extracts from a Report made in 1830 by a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of the Irish poor, appear to us particularly clear and satisfactory on the subject. " The possibility... | |
 | James A. Huie - 1842 - 364 σελίδες
...Andries Stoffles, two converts, the one a Caffre chief and the other a Hottentot, were examined before a committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the origin of the disputes between the colonists and the aborigines. The answers of Tzatzoe were peculiarly... | |
 | James Bischoff - 1842 - 514 σελίδες
...Liverpool determined — Mr. WORTLEY proposed, that the duty on importation should be repealed, and a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the effects which the free exportation of English wool would probably produce. Lord LIVERPOOL objected... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1843 - 500 σελίδες
...from the adoption of the measures they advocated has been fulfilled or rather surpassed. " In 1750, a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the laws relating to felonies ' reported that it was reasonable to exchange the punishment of death for... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 708 σελίδες
...heightened by his antipathy to Burke, with whom he continued from time to time to have " passages of arms." A committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the causes of the length of the trial, having presented an elaborate Report drawn by the chief manager,... | |
 | George Harris - 1847 - 586 σελίδες
...murder of Edward Arne, — the proceedings in which case were instituted in pursuance of a report of a committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the gaols of this kingdom, so far as related to the cruel usage of the prisoners, — took... | |
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I have not money enough for gunpowder," are well known. These difficulties were, however, overcome, and on the recommendation of a committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the... 
