The history, and proceedings, of the Derbyshire loyal true blue club, by the editor of the 'Derbyshire courier' |
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... appears to have been about this time also , though we are unable to find any precise date , that the first code of laws for the government of the Club was drawn up ; and although a copy of the rules appears in another part of the volume ...
... appears to have been about this time also , though we are unable to find any precise date , that the first code of laws for the government of the Club was drawn up ; and although a copy of the rules appears in another part of the volume ...
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... appears , that upon the day when the mail brought the tidings of the final triumph of the British arms , by the capitulation of Paris , the Club testified their patriotism , by sending a procession to meet the mail , and conduct it into ...
... appears , that upon the day when the mail brought the tidings of the final triumph of the British arms , by the capitulation of Paris , the Club testified their patriotism , by sending a procession to meet the mail , and conduct it into ...
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... the distressed poor of the town of Derby . " On the 10th October , a grant of three guineas appears to Mr. W. Hollinghead , -and by a minute of the 16th , C dinner for one hundred was ordered to be provided on DERBYSHIRE TRUE BLUE CLUB .
... the distressed poor of the town of Derby . " On the 10th October , a grant of three guineas appears to Mr. W. Hollinghead , -and by a minute of the 16th , C dinner for one hundred was ordered to be provided on DERBYSHIRE TRUE BLUE CLUB .
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... appear to be any thing further during this year worthy of notice . At the close of 1816 , the number of members amounted to 241 . 1817 . THE peace of the county being now in so disturbed a state , as to call for the exertions of every ...
... appear to be any thing further during this year worthy of notice . At the close of 1816 , the number of members amounted to 241 . 1817 . THE peace of the county being now in so disturbed a state , as to call for the exertions of every ...
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... year were , B. Heathcote , Esq . and T. Hallowes , Esq . patrons , -the Rev. C. S. Hope , presi- dent , Mr. Eaton , vice - president . Subsequently to this date , several grants appear to kave DERBYSHIRE TRUE BLUE CLUB . 19.
... year were , B. Heathcote , Esq . and T. Hallowes , Esq . patrons , -the Rev. C. S. Hope , presi- dent , Mr. Eaton , vice - president . Subsequently to this date , several grants appear to kave DERBYSHIRE TRUE BLUE CLUB . 19.
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anniversary applause Arkwright Bainbrigge Bart C. S. Hope catholic emancipation chair chairman then gave Charles church consider Curzon Derby DERBYSHIRE COURIER Derbyshire Loyal True drank with three Duke of Wellington duty E. M. Mundy Eaton elected exertions expressed feel firm flattering Frederick Curzon gentlemen glorious constitution Godfrey Meynell Harrison Heathcote Henry Fitz Herbert honour immortal memory John John Wallis King line of policy Lord Loud cheering loyal subjects Loyal True Blue loyalty Majesty's government Majesty's ministers meeting nation occasion opinion parliament patriotic patrons person petition petitioners Pitt Club pleasure political present principles of Pitt propose the health prosperity protestant ascendancy religion respect returned thanks Richard Arkwright Roman catholics rose Sir George Crewe Sir Henry Fitz Sir Robert Wilmot Sleath Sovereign Spencer Perceval spirit Thomas three times three throne toast True Blue Club unanimous United Kingdom vice-president virtues voted Wallis Whiston William
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Page 101 - House that we did feel it an incumbent duty upon us to propose a measure on the part of Government which, under the circumstances of the union so happily effected between the two countries, we thought of great public importance and necessary to complete the benefits likely to result from that measure : we felt this opinion so strongly that, when we met with circumstances which rendered it impossible for us to propose it as a measure of Government, we equally felt it inconsistent with our duty and...
Page 50 - To the King's Most Excellent Majesty Most Gracious Sovereign, We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the...
Page 36 - Another event, indeed, has intervened, in itself of a most painful nature, but powerful in aiding and confirming the impressions which the assembling and the proceedings of Parliament were calculated to produce. I mean the loss which the nation has sustained by the death of a Sovereign, with whose person all that is venerable in monarchy has been identified in the eyes of successive generations of his subjects ; a Sovereign whose goodness, whose years, whose sorrows and sufferings, must have softened...
Page 36 - Europe with astonishment beheld him filling the first place in the councils of his country, and managing the vast mass of its concerns with all the vigour and steadiness of the most matured wisdom. Dignity— strength — discretion — these were among the masterly qualities of his mind at its first dawn. He had been nurtured a statesman, and his knowledge was of that kind which always lay ready for practical application.
Page 101 - I think that the introduction of a certain proportion of catholics into the imperial parliament would be likely to be productive of any influence or effect detrimental or injurious to the welfare of the state, or the safety and security of the constitution.
Page 36 - Monarchy has been identified in the eyes of successive generations of his subjects ; a Sovereign, whose goodness, whose years, whose sorrows and sufferings, must have softened the hearts of the most ferocious enemies of kingly power ; — whose active virtues, and the memory of whose virtues, when it pleased Divine Providence that they should be active no more, have been the guide and guardian of his people through many a weary and many a stormy pilgrimage...
Page 101 - Government, we equally felt it inconsistent with our duty and our honour any longer to remain a part of that Government. What may be the opinion of others I know not, but I beg to have it understood to be a measure which, if I had remained in Government, I must have proposed.
Page 6 - AMONG the liberal donations of our countrymen to the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the brave men who fell in the...
Page 101 - Son, vol. vp 262. and unfettered. I certainly was of opinion that under a united Parliament those privileges might be granted under proper guards and conditions, so as not to produce any danger to the Established Church or the Protestant Constitution...
Page 37 - Unallured by dissipation, and unswayed by pleasure, he never sacrificed the national treasure to the one, or the national interest to- the other. To his unswerving integrity the most authentic of all testimony is to be found in that unbounded public confidence which followed him throughout the whole of his political career. Absorbed as he was in the pursuits of public life, he did not...