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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 42: (search)
ides earlier letters; see for example, Hutchinson to Secretary Pownall, 5 Dec. 1770; to Sir Francis Bernard, Jan. 1771; to Secretary Pownall, 24 Jan. 1771; to——, 5 June, 1771; to Secretary Pownall, July, 1773, &c. &c. the diminution of the liberties of New England Towns; Hutchinson to——, 9 Jan. 1770; a mere hint for a close corporation for Boston. Again to Sec. Pownall, 21 March, 1770; to Hillsborough, 26 July, 1770; a hint, If the town were a corporation as New-York; to Sec. Pownall, 20 Nov. 1770; Endeavor that the letter to which you refer, hinting advantages from the constitution of the City of New-York, may not be laid before the House of Commons, &c. To Secretary Pownall, 3 April, 1771; It must show to Parliament the necessity of such an alteration in the constitution of the town, as some time ago you gave me a hint of, and will be sufficient to render an act for that purpose unexceptionable. Again 18 April, 1771, to Sec. Pownall, and so on, till the Act of Parliament for th
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], An opinion from Missouri. (search)
hat of the people. Singularly enough, Fox was, twenty years after, the very man who settled the whole matter on the popular side, by his bill for regulating the law in cases of trial for libel. Mr. Glynn's resolution was voted down. The hearing of the arguments upon the motion in arrest of judgment and the motion to compel the defendant to show cause why the verdict should not be entered up according to the legal import of the words, came on in the Court of King's Bench on the 20th November, 1770. Lord Mansfield delivering the opinion of the Court instead of confining himself to the face of the record, went over the whole case as it was tried at Nisi Prius, reciting the evidence and his own charge to the jury.--Lord Chatham, in the House of Lords, denounced the conduct of the Chief Justice in this particular as "irregular, extrajudicial and unprecedented." If, he said, a motion had been made for a new trial because of a verdict contrary to evidence, or of an improper charge by