...having been unfortunately purchased by his employers. This man's singular talent would have deceived a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the financial state of the Nation." Drukurd's Slamford Nevis, 24. In his 64th year, the I?ev. William Bradley,...

...debt. 1 7. The consequences of this deviation may be seen in a very interesting and affecting report by a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the practice and effects of imprisonment for debt. From this report, published in the year 1792, I subjoin...

...consolation from the idea that these evils were felt with equal force throughout the greatest part of Europe. The distress of the West India planters, in consequence...through the medium of the United States, to Europe. The suggestion of the committee relative to the suspension of French and American intercourse, leads...

...were tried. Howard visited the " Justitia," stationed at Woolwich ; and subsequently appeared before a Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the working of the Hulk experiment. He preferred the Hulks to Transportation, though in many respects the...

...improved our roads, our carriages retain the form which they bore a century ago. In the year 1808, a Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the roads and the construction of wheels, carriages, &c., made three distinct reports, which...

...hope, will meet with that just disapprobation which their shameless conduct demands. There has been a Committee of the House of Commons appointed, to inquire into the state of Ireland, and to investigate the cause of the evib which afflict this country. Though those...

...land. This opinion gave rise to the insertion of words in the preamble of the Bubble Act Re* Report of a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of marine insurance in 1810. t Joint stock companies for the purposes of banking, composed of...

...of twenty-eight guns. Under this impression, he proposed to give the canal a depth of twenty feet. A committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the highlands, and to devise the most efficacious means of improving their condition, took...

...very board itself included,) were in mortal coil, to arrange matters so as to present a fair front to a committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of its affairs. In those days, most men in office were in the habit of appropriating to themselves...

...provisions as relating to " temporary places of confine" ment." It also appears from two Reports made by a committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the proceedings which had taken place under the 24 80 Geo. Ill, in 1785, (the one dated on the 9th, and...