The Black Book of England: Exhibiting the Existing State, Policy, and Administration of the United Kingdom ...C. Mitchell, 1847 - 384 sider |
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Side 223 - That it is the bounden duty of the responsible advisers of the crown to recommend to his majesty for grants of pensions on the civil list such persons only as have just claims on the royal beneficence, or who, by their personal services to the crown, by the performance of duties to the public, or by their useful discoveries in science, and attainments in literature and the arts, have merited the gracious consideration of their Sovereign, and the gratitude of their country.
Side 124 - It is difficult," says Mr. Thomas, " to describe the present various functions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In fact, he exercises all the powers vested in the Treasury Board, and has therefore the entire control and management of all matters relating to the receipt and expenditure of the public money, whether arising from taxes granted by parliament, or from other sources of revenue in the United Kingdom or the colonies, as well as of the private revenue of the sovereign, and also the custody...
Side 57 - They patronize a ponderous and sinecure church-establishment; they wage long and unnecessary wars, to create employments in the army and navy ; they conquer and retain useless colonies ; they set on foot expensive missions of diplomacy, and keep an ambassador or consul, and often both, at almost every petty state and every petty port in the world ; they create offices without duties, grant unmerited pensions, keep up unnecessary places in the royal household, in the admiralty, the treasury, the customs,...
Side 56 - They are founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all that it possesses ; but that the property of the present generation should be restrained and regulated according to the fancy of those who died perhaps five hundred years ago.
Side 278 - In the superseded system, the Degrees in all the Faculties were solemn testimonials that the graduate had accomplished a regular course of study in the public schools of the University, and approved his competence by exercise and examination ; and on these degrees, only as such testimonials, and solely for the public good, were there bestowed by the civil legislature, great and exclusive privileges in the church, in the courts of law, and in the practice of medicine. In the superseding system, Degrees...
Side 123 - Commissariat officers," says the Memorandum, "act, in effect, as SubTreasurers to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury in the foreign possessions of the Crown." " The Commissariat," it is added, " also provides, keeps in store, and issues the provisions, forage, fuel, and light for the use of all the different branches of the service abroad ; furnishes the troops with the necessary supplies of water ; provides all land and...
Side 360 - Colet, because it answered to the number of fish taken by St. Peter. (John xxi. 11...
Side 128 - Office on the subjects of the negotiation of commercial treaties, of difficulty arising out of them, and of the proceedings necessary to give effect to them. With the Treasury, on the alterations made or contemplated in the laws of the customs, on cases of hardship to individuals arising from the operation of those laws, and on points connected with them which require solution. And with other departments on matters of interest in a commercial point of view. The preparation also of bills and of orders...
Side 56 - Entails are the natural consequences of the law of primogeniture. They were introduced to preserve a certain lineal succession, of which the law of primogeniture first gave the idea, and to hinder any part of the original estate from being carried out of the proposed line either by gift, or devise, or alienation; either by the folly, or by the misfortune of any of its successive owners.
Side 160 - Declared value of British and Irish produce, and Manufactures, exported from the United Kingdom to the United States of America, in each year from 1805 to 1811, and from 1814 to 1836.