Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, 第 2 卷

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第 325 頁 - Board, that it is indispensably necessary for the public service, that the Directors of the Bank of England should forbear issuing any cash in payment until the sense of Parliament can be taken on that subject...
第 468 頁 - Every abwab or tax imposed by the zemindar over and alx,ve that sum is not only a breach of that agreement, but a direct violation of the established laws of the country.
第 220 頁 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, Of the City of London...
第 360 頁 - The principal persons of this country and the members of both houses of parliament, are in general averse to all acts of clemency...
第 442 頁 - I am happy to find an uniform opinion in favour of the proposal among all the Irish I have seen ; and I am more and more convinced that those measures, with some effectual mode to enforce the residence of all ranks of the Protestant clergy, offer the best chance of gradually putting an end to the evils most felt in Ireland.
第 371 頁 - Except in the instances of the six state trials that are going on here, there is no law either in town or country but martial law, and you know enough of that to see all the horrors of it, even in the best administration of it ; judge then how it must be, conducted by Irishmen heated by passion and revenge.
第 360 頁 - ... that deep-laid conspiracy to revolutionize Ireland on the principles of France, which was originally formed, and by wonderful assiduity brought nearly to maturity, by men who had no thought of religion but to destroy it, and who knew how to turn the passions and prejudices of the different sects to the advancement of their horrible plot for the introduction of that most dreadful of all evils, a Jacobin...
第 371 頁 - The feeble outrages, burnings, and murders, which are still committed by the rebels, serve to keep up the sanguinary disposition on our side ; and as long as they furnish a pretext for our parties going in quest of them, I see no prospect of amendment.
第 478 頁 - The consequences of the heavy drains of wealth from the above causes, with the addition of that which has been occasioned by the remittance of private fortunes, have been for many years past, and are now, severely felt by the great diminution of the current specie, and by the languor which has thereby been thrown upon the cultivation and the general commerce of the country.
第 417 頁 - The great measure, from which I looked for so much good, will, if carried, fall far short of my expectations, as all the leading persons here, not excepting the Chancellor, are determined to resist the extension of its operation to the Catholics. I feel the measure of so much importance, that it is worth carrying anyhow, but I am determined not to submit to the insertion of any clause that shall make the exclusion of the Catholics a fundamental part of the Union, as I am fully convinced that, until...

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