Description - Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt Volume 3 by George Pretyman
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: ...the Thursday to the Sunday evening, when three troops of horse soldiers arrived, and tranquillity was at length restored. 'Some of the ringleaders were apprehended and tried, three of whom suffered death; and the losses of individuals, according to the wise provision of our laws, were made good by the hundred in which the buildings were situated. Parliament met on the 31st of January 179% and the king in his speech from the throne, after mentioning the marriage of the duke of York with the princess royal of Prussia, and the pacification effected in the north of Europe, through the mediation of himself and his allies, informed the two houses, that though the war in India was not terminated, the sue Dr. Priestley laid his damages at 4,122/. lis. d.; but the sum awarded him by the jury, was only 2,502 I. 18$. The deductions were on, account of MSS. of his own composition, which he valued at 420/. 15$. for which the jury would allow nothing, and of a philosophical apparatus, which he valued much higher than the jury thought right. cess, which had already attended the British arms, afforded reasonable ground to hope, that it might speedily be brought to an honorable conclusion. His majesty next remarked, that as the general state of affairs upon the continent appeared to promise a continuance of the present tranquillity, some reduction, he conceived, might be made in the naval and military establishments, which, with the progressive increase of the revenue, might enable parliament to repeal a part of the existing taxes, and at the same time give additional efficacy to the plan for the liquidation of the national debt. With a view to the same important object, he recommended also the adoption of such measures as the state of the funds, and of public credit, ...
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