 | John Wilkes - 1777 - 192 pages
...His Majefty to fecure' and detain Perfons charged with, or fufpe<3ed of, the Crime of High Treafon, committed' in North America, or on the High' Seas, or the Crime of Piracy, was read the third time; and amufes himfetf in tuning to a delicate ear finooth and melodious periods.... | |
 | David Hughson - 1805 - 702 pages
...assembled, « Shcxeth, " That your petitioners have seen a bill depending in this honourable house, to empower his Majesty to secure and detain persons...America, or on the high seas, or the crime of piracy. • " That if the said bill should pass into a law, yonr petitioners are apprehensive it will create... | |
 | 1805 - 608 pages
...assembled, ' SIIEWETII, ' THAT yonr petitioners have ^ena bill depending in this honourable house, to empower his majesty to secure and detain persons...America, or on the high seas, or the crime of piracy. ' That if the said bill should pass into a law, your petitioners are apprehensive it will create the... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1814 - 736 pages
...Leave was accordingly given. Feb. 7. Lord G. Germaine presented to the House the following Bill : " A Bill to empower his Majesty to secure and detain...America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy. " Whereas a rebellion and war have been openly and traitorously levied and carried on in certain of... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1815 - 548 pages
...HABEAS CORPUS ACT, IJT AMERICA, &c. February 10. 1777. ON the 6th of February, Lord North brought in a bill " to empower his majesty to secure and detain...America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy." The progress of this Bill was contested with a warmth and pertinacity proportioned to the magnitude... | |
 | Johann Friedrich C. Kortüm - 1829 - 626 pages
...ЗЩ>епег.'е SE&emillofleó? 174) Parliam. register VI. 156 sqq. £)ie ffiiQ V»0t tibCCfchticben : „n bill to empower his Majesty to secure and detain persons...America or on the high seas, or the crime of piracy" фие Ätiegebübget fiit 1777 bereinigt« untet nnöeem 45,000 ©eeíeuten 2,340,000 ф[Ь., far... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1835 - 364 pages
...opposition. On the same day also lord North introduced a bill ' for enabling his majesty to detain and secure persons charged with, or suspected of, the crime of...America or on the high seas, or the crime of piracy.' By its enactments, every one so charged or suspected was liable to be committed to any place of confinement... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...carried without some amendments, was a partial suspension of the Habeas Corpus — a Bill empowering His Majesty to secure and detain persons charged with...America, or on the high seas, or the crime of piracy. " The thing is this," said Lord North ; " there have been during the present war in Ame" rica many... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 688 pages
...in by the minister for enabling the King to " detain and secure persons " charged with, or suspected of, high treason, committed " in North America, or on the high seas, or of piracy." By this law, magistrates were empowered to commit such persons to any place appointed by... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 448 pages
...opposition. On the same day also lord North introduced a bill ' for enabling his majesty to detain and secure persons charged with, or suspected of, the crime of...America or on the high seas, or the crime of piracy.' By its enactments, every one so charged or suspected was liable to be committed to any place of confinement... | |
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His Majesty to secure and detain persons charged with or suspected of the crime of high treason committed in North America, or on the high seas, or the crime of piracy. 
