Sir Robert Peel: In Early Life, 1788-1812; as Irish Secretary, 1812-1818; Amd as Secretary of State, 1822-1827. From His Private Correspondence, Volum 2

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J. Murray, 1899 - 513 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 556 - Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast into the home market, as to deprive all at once many thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence.
Pàgina 216 - That the deficiency in the revenue which would be occasioned by a reduction of the duty on malt to ten shillings the quarter, and by the repeal of the taxes on houses and windows, could only be supplied by the substitution of a general tax on property and income, and an extensive change in our whole financial system, which would at present be inexpedient.
Pàgina 397 - Majesty's full support and confidence, and that at the same time, as far as possible consistently with that demonstration, each individual appointment in the Household should be entirely acceptable to your Majesty's personal feelings. ' On your Majesty's expressing a desire that the Earl of Liverpool should hold an office in the Household, Sir Robert Peel requested your Majesty's permission at once to offer to Lord Liverpool the office of l>ord Steward, or any other which he might prefer.
Pàgina 51 - I abhor the idea of truckling to the overbearing Catholic demagogues. To make any movement towards conciliation under the present excitement and system of terror would revolt me ; but I do most conscientiously, and after the most earnest consideration of the subject, give it as my conviction that the first moment of composure and tranquillity should be seized to signify the intention of adjusting the question, lest another period of calm should not present itself.
Pàgina 530 - We find that the general welfare will be the best promoted by a fair adjustment — by allowing the legitimate logical deductions to be controlled by the thousand considerations which enter into moral and political questions, and which — as friction and the weight of the atmosphere...
Pàgina 49 - If the Irish Government could neither turn for aid to the then existing Parliament, nor could cherish the hope of receiving it from one to be newly elected, could it safely trust for the maintenance of its authority to the extreme exercise of its ordinary powers, supported in the case of necessity by the organised and disciplined force at its command, namely the constabulary and military force ? ii
Pàgina 115 - Nov. 1829: 1 am very glad indeed to hear that you think well of the Police. It has given me from first to last more trouble than anything I ever undertook. But the men are gaining a knowledge of their duties so rapidly that I am very sanguine of the ultimate result. I want to teach people that liberty does not consist in having your house robbed by organised gangs of thieves, and in leaving the principal streets of London in the nightly possession of drunken women and vagabonds.
Pàgina 396 - The Queen having considered the proposal made to her yesterday by Sir Robert Peel to remove the Ladies of her Bedchamber cannot consent to adopt a course which she conceives to be contrary to usage and repugnant to her feelings.
Pàgina 562 - Let this last trial be taken as a sufficient proof that "United Education" is an impossibility. It ought never again to be attempted. The Dissenters and the Church have each laid down their limits, which they will not pass; and there is no power that can either force, persuade, or delude them. Your Government has nothing to regret, except the loss of a healing measure. You would have much to regret had you not propounded it. But you have endeavoured to remove a great evil, and in so doing have thrown...
Pàgina 396 - May 10, 1839. Sir Robert Peel presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and has had the honour of receiving your Majesty's note of this morning. In respectfully submitting to your Majesty's pleasure, and humbly returning into your Majesty's hands the important trust which your Majesty had...

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