 Parliament met on January 22, 1799, and the question of the Union, already broached in the British Parliament by Mr. Pitt, was made the subject of an animated discussion in the House of Commons. It arose on an amendment to the address moved by Mr. Ponsonby,...  Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis - Page 42by Charles Cornwallis Marquis Cornwallis - 1859Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1859 - 584 pages
...discussion in the House of Commons. It arose on an amendment to the address moved by Mr. Ponsonby, ' That the House would be ready to enter into any measure...independent Legislature, as established in 1782.' The point on which the Opposition principally relied was the incompetency of Parliament to entertain... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 578 pages
...discussion in the House of Commons. It arose on an amendment to the address moved by Mr. Ponsonby, 'That the House would be ready to enter into any measure...independent Legislature, as established in 1782.' The point on which the Opposition principally relied was the incompetency of Parliament to entertain... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1859 - 750 pages
...discussion in the House of Commons. It arose on an amendment to the address moved by Mr. Ponsonby, ' That the House would be ready to enter into any measure...independent Legislature, as established in 1782.' The point on which the Opposition principally relied was the incompetency of Parliament to entertain... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...arose on an amendment to the address moved by Mr. Ponsonby, ' That the House would be ready to en^er into any measure short of surrendering their free,...independent Legislature, as established in 1782.' The point on which the Opposition principally relied was the incorapetency of Parliament to entertain... | |
 | William Eden Baron Auckland - Europe - 1862 - 457 pages
...the address, 105 against. The amendment, moved by Mr. George Ponsonby, was to the following effect: "That the House would be ready to enter into any measure,...independent legislature, as established in 1782." In the House of Lords, the debate was carried on with perfect decorum ; and, on a division, the numbers... | |
 | William Eden (Baron Auckland.), William Eden Baron Auckland - Europe - 1862 - 882 pages
...the address, 105 against. The amendment, moved by Mr. George Ponsonby, was to the following effect: " That the House would be ready to enter into any measure,...resident, and independent legislature, as established in i782." The truth is, my dear Lord, that, with the best intentions, Lord Cornwallis has utterly mistaken... | |
 | William Eden (Baron Auckland.), William Eden Baron Auckland - Europe - 1862 - 882 pages
...address, 105 against. The amendment, moved hy Mr. George Ponsonby, was to the following effect : " That the House would be ready to enter into any measure,...resident, and independent legislature, as established in i782. In the House of Lords, the debate was carried on with perfect decorum ; and, on a division, the... | |
 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee - 1869 - 780 pages
...obnoxious minority. Mr. Ponsonby's amendment, affirmed by the House of Commons, was in these words : — " That the House would be ready to enter into any measure...independent legislature as established in 1782." This was the ultimatum of the great party which rallied in January, 1799, to the defence of the established... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1887 - 648 pages
...government the opposition appeared in strength, and on 22 Jan. 1799, a motion of Mr. George Ponsonby, 'That the house would be ready to enter into any measure,...independent legislature, as established in 1782,' was carried by 107 to 105. This defeat did not discourage Lord Castlereagh, and he prepared, by boldly... | |
 | Edward Porritt - 1903 - 610 pages
...amendment, that the House would be ready to enter upon any measure with the object set forth in the address, "short of surrendering their free, resident, and independent legislature, as established in 1782." "This," continued Cornwallis, " produced a general debate, which lasted till one o'clock this day (January... | |
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