 | Catharine Macaulay - Great Britain - 1778 - 476 pages
...prevent them from being tranfported or alienated ; and a committee of fecrecy was chofen by LETTER v. ballot to examine all the books, papers, and proceedings,...relating to the execution of the South Sea act. The fub and deputy-governors, the directors and officers of the South Sea company, were examined at the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...Company, and the ffight of Knight the Cafhier : ': A committee of fecrecy being appointed by the commons to examine all the books, papers, and proceedings relating to the execution of the South Sea aCi, the members were ehofen from the moft violent of thofe who were advocates for inditcrimmate and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...Company, and the flight of Knight the Gamier : <; A committee of fecrecy being appointed by the commons to examine all the books, papers, and proceedings relating to the execution of the South Sea aft, the members were chofen from the mod violent of thofe who were advocates for indifcriminatc and... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 582 pages
...discovering their estates and effects, so as to prevent them from being transported or alienated. A committee of secrecy was chosen by ballot, to examine...proceedings, relating to the execution of the South Sea act. § XXIX. The lords were not less eager than the commons to prosecute this inquiry, though divers memoers... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 590 pages
...as to prevent them from being transported or alienated. A committee of secrecy was chosen by ballet, to examine all the books, papers, and proceedings, relating to the execution of the South Sea act. § XXIX. The lords were not less eager than the commons to prosecute this inquiry, though divers members... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 578 pages
...being transported or alienated. A committee of secrecy was chosen by ballot, to examine all the hooks, papers, and proceedings, relating to the execution of the South Sea act. § XXIX. The lords were not less eager than the commons to prosecute this inquiry, though divers members... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...of parliament only could have prevented a national bankruptcy. A committee of the house of commons was chosen by ballot, to examine all the books, papers, and proceedings relative to the execution of the South Sea act ; and this committee discovered, that before any subscription... | |
 | William Coxe - Prime ministers - 1816 - 452 pages
...inquiries into the South Sea project, and the conduct of the directors. . <_ the commons, January 23, 1721, to examine all the books, papers, and proceedings...relating to the execution of the South Sea act, the inem• bers * were chosen from the most violent advocates for indiscriminate and unrelenting severity.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1822 - 512 pages
...discovering their estates and effects, so as to prevent them from being transported or alienated. A committee of secrecy was chosen by ballot, to examine...and proceedings, relating to the execution of the South-sea act. § XXIX. The lords were not less eager than the commons to prosecute this inquiry, though... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...— a perfect hermit in his 'diet. 200 NOTES. " A committee of secrecy being appointed by the Commons to examine all the books, papers, and proceedings...relating to the execution of the South Sea act, the members were chosen from the most violent of those who were advocates for indiscriminate and unrelenting... | |
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Sea company from quitting the kingdom till the end of the next session of parliament; and for discovering their estates and effects, so as to prevent them from being transported or alienated. A committee of secrecy was chosen by ballot, to examine all... 
