This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1805. Each instance is reproduced in its context as recorded in Hansard.
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| Speaker | Context |
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| Col. Calcraft | It was impossible that the members of the house could accurately examine their contents while they lay unprinted on the table, and he should therefore think it his duty to persevere in his intention of moving chat they should be printed, unless it was positively 6tated, that this would be injurious to the public service. |
| The Attorney General | But although this argument was so forcible, he would not go so far as to say that the farther hearing of evidence at the bar, should, be resisted if such resistance should appear to be injurious to the cause of justice, or unfair towards the individuals concerned in the case before the house. |
| The Attorney General | There was no pretence, however, for saying that such could be the consequence; on the contrary, it was as fair to argue that the examination of evidence, not on oath at the bar, might be injurious to the accused as otherwise. |
| Mr. Grey | He did so, and the reply was an utter disclaiming of all armaments injurious to G. |
| Mr. Grey | were succeeded by precipitate resolutions and acts of violence equally injurious to the honour and interest of his kingdom. |
| Lord Castlereagh | He felt it his duty, therefore, to state to the house, that he protested most solemnly against commencing and carrying on a war without any fixed principle; that he pro tested against the detention of the Spanish frigates, and abhorred the policy which had been the cause of the shedding so much blood: in fine, he protested against a system of aggression and unprovoked hostility, be cause he thought each of those considerations greatly injurious, not only to the interest but also to the character of the country. |
| The Master of the Rolls | But if she gives us reason to suppose that there is any thing concealed, we have an undoubted right to a communication of the terms of that treaty, in order to be certain, and to have it ascertained that nothing injurious to our interests is contained therein. |
| Earl Spencer | At that moment, his lordship said, he and other noble friends of his, with whom he acted, saw on the first fair and mature consideration of its provisions, that so far from answering the important purposes for 492 which it was intended, it would have the direct contrary effect, and would be infinitely more injurious to the military service of the country than those measures which were proposed for that end by his maj.'s then ministers, whom it was a principal and primary means of driving from their official situations. |
| Lord Grenville | I cannot suffer myself to suppose that he can entertain such an injurious and insulting opinion of his friends, that they should sacrifice their conscience, and abandon their principles, to follow any line of public conduct that lie may think proper to pursue. |
| Lord Hawkesbury | As the case stood, the mode recommended by the noble lord would be only productive of further and even injurious delay. |
| Mr. Windham, | He was ready to allow the force of family influence in Ireland and Scotland, but he contended that the principle of a system of recruiting by influence was injurious. |
| Mr. Windham, | He considered the manner in which the militia was broken in upon some years back, as the most injurious mode of meddling with that establishment, and as one which could only be justified by an immediate emergency. |
| Mr. Windham, | That such consequences must have a most injurious effect upon the army, he thought could not be doubted for a moment; and the causes of the evil must be removed, before an efficient army could be had. |
| Mr. Windham, | To those who observed that the limitation of time he mentioned would have an injurious effect on discipline, he should only think it necessary to say, that as a soldier was liable to punishment if he committed a fault only the moment before his time of service expired, he could not conceive that such an effect was possible. |
| General Gascoyne | Under these circumstances, it became the house to say at once to the world, that they were resolved not to adopt a system which could only lead to the most injurious consequences, and thus to put an end to discussions which had already, and which evidently must have the very worst effect upon the minds of the negroes. |
| Mr. Wilberforce | He would not say what the consequences would be of adopting the plan he now proposed to the house, bat if any one would read the report of the Jamaica assembly, which he had read with attention, he thought such a person would not readily say this plan would make the condition of that island worse than it was at present, with respect to its negroes; a situation into which they had brought themselves, for want of pursuing a plan similar to that which was intended to be tried under this bill, and which situation might be said to be that of being nearly in the jaws of destruction; a great deal of this evil arose from the practice of those who were called the book-keepers, to whom this trade of importation was a profitable concern, and he believed to them only, but the general sys- 671 tem of it was as injurious to the true policy of the islands as the trade itself of importation from Africa was. |
| Mr. Egerton | said, he had received the most positive instructions from his constituents in Cheshire, to oppose a measure always so injurious to their interest, at the 701 same time, he could not refrain from returning his thanks to the right hon. gent. |
| Earl Camden | His lordship spoke shortly in defence of the army of reserve bill, deeming it upon the whole a good measure and through which a number of men were raised; but at the same time admitted its unavoidably injurious tendency, in raising, throughout the medium of compe- 799 tition, the bounties to a very high rate. |
| Earl Stanhope | From the general terms of the motion, which was, that a committee be appointed to revise the acts that have been passed in the two last sessions, for the defence of the country, it was allowable for him to enter into a discussion of these acts, of one of them at least, he should do so, and he trusted in such a way, although it was considered by his noble friend, in that point of view, as that he should convince their lordships its leading provisions were mischievous, injurious, and absurd. |
| Mr. Coke (of Norfolk) | He was thoroughly satisfied, that if the tax took place, the same quantity of corn would not be grown as had been heretofore, which must prove highly injurious to the country, and contribute to enhance the price of bread. |
| Mr. Grey | said, that he agreed with all his hon. friends, that a more injurious tax could not be proposed. |
| Mr. Grey | In every view of it, he thought there could not be a more impolitic tax than the present, for it would operate as a discouragement to agriculture, and consequently prove highly injurious to the country.—After this a desultory conversation took place: Sir R. |
| [IRISH BUDGET.]—Mr. Foster | There are 17 or 18 distillers that not long ago, on being examined, refused to be examined on oath, and actually sent in a memorial, stating that it would be an act of perfidy in them to disclose facts that would be injurious to others, and that they could not, as honest men, make any discovery. |
| [IRISH BUDGET.]—Mr. Foster | The tax will be not at all injurious to trade. |
| Sir John Newport | He expressed very strong objections to the proposed tax upon the importation of timber, as, whatever may be the case in the county of Louth, or those parts of Ireland with which the right hon. gent.(Mr. Foster) was best acquainted, it would operate very injuriously to the comforts of all the cottagers in those parts of Ireland with which he was particularly connected, where native timber was so scarce that they were obliged to have recourse entirely to such as was imported.— Notwithstanding this necessity, he was sorry to observe that the tax upon timber was regularly augmented every year since the Union. |
| Sir C. Price | considered this duty as a check to the progress of commerce, by discouraging the activity of men of small capitals, and particularly injurious to the commerce between this country and Ireland. |
| Mr. Yorke | He would broadly contend, the militia could suffer no detriment whatever; the whole was voluntary, and compulsory measures could alone be injurious. |
| The Marquis of Douglas | conceived the bill to be unjust in its principle, and injurious in its operation. |
| Mr. Windham | set out with a general declamation against the ballot, which he at length found out was very injurious to the service. |
| The Chancellor of the Exchequer | Many military characters of the first estimation thought it would be attended with consequences highly injurious to the service. |
| The Chancellor of the Exchequer | which 142 would be injurious to the service, and no advantage to the public. |
| The Duke of Norfolk | If the measure was a wise and salutary provision then, why, he would ask, was it now unwise and injurious? |
| The Bishop of Oxford | contended generally for the injurious tendency of the restraint, under the circumstances in which 143 the members of the universities now stood. |
| The Bishop of Oxford | The law, as it at present stood, operated in an inconvenient, and, in some respects, a very injurious manner. |
| Sir John Newport | was of opinion, that the militia system, however advantageous it might be to England, was injurious to Ireland, and he could therefore wish to see it abolished in that country in toto. |
| [MINUTES.] | On the motion of the earl of Suffolk, lord viscount Melville's letter to the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry was ordered to be laid before the house.— The bills upon the table were forwarded in their respective stages.— On the second reading of Bowyer's Lottery bill, Lord Ellenborough made a few observations though he was by no means favourable to the general principle of lotteries; yet, under the circumstances of the case, the present bill was one which might, without much risk of injurious consequences, be 191 assented to by their lordships.— After some remarks from lord Walsingham, of a tendency favourable to the measure, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be referred to the consideration of a committee.—Lord Grenville moved that their lordships be summoned for the 10th of May, on which day, he said, it was his intention to offer a motion relative to the Roman Catholics of Ireland. |
| The Marquis of Buckingham | He denied that any similitude existed between the present bill and that alluded to, as enacted during the late war; there was then an imperious duty upon them so to enact, and the circumstances of the country were widely different as to its defensive situation and the naval power of the enemy; the present measure would, he contended, prove inefficacious, and it was odious and disgusting to the militia officers in general; and all the military measures of the present ministers were injurious to the militia system. |
| Mr. Grant | The diffusion of ourselves to so unlimited an extent, would be most injurious to us, for by it we should lose ourselves. |
| Mr. Windham | It was impossible, in his opinion, to conceive any thing more gross, injurious, calumnious, and licentious, and therefore he should be guilty of no great vindictive principle, if he should vote for punishing the offender in a certain degree, as a caution to others. |
| Lord Sidmouth | With respect to the idea, that no practical inconvenience had hitherto resulted from the restraint; there was no necessity of direct proof of it before the house; it was every day, and injuriously felt. |
| The Archbishop of Canterbury | He alluded to that, which was afloat in the market, and every day bought and sold under circumstances injurious to the establishment of the church, the interests of religion, and; he believed, against the laws of the realm; the patronage of such persons might easily be placed in better hands, and in none more advantageously than those of the universi- 452 ties. |
| Mr. Lee | He was, however, one of those who did not think the quantity of paper that had been in circulation was injurious to Ireland; the fact had never been proved, and till it was so, he should differ from those who held that opinion. |
| The Lord Chancellor | This in some degree shewed its inutility; its possible injurious effects were obvious. |
| Mr. Kinnard | How was it that the navy board, who seemed so much alive to injurious imputations, had not written those letters of vindication sooner, or why was the production of them deferred to so late a moment, as to render it almost impossible for them to be printed in time for the due consideration of members? |
| The Earl of Suffolk | rose, and made several observations expressive of his hostility to the bill; he particularly deprecated the discussion of a measure, which would so injuriously affect the lay patronage of the country, in so thin an attendance of lay peers. |
| Sir John Newport | He hoped, therefore, that the duty would be so modified, as not to be productive of the injurious effects he apprehended from it. |
| Lord Grenville | They would feel more confidence, than when they are told, that you have shut your doors against every person of their community; and that you will not suffer any person of their description to enter the threshold of the legislature, because he holds religious opinions injurious to the safety of the state. |
| Lord Grenville | What other conclusions can they draw, but that their religious and civil opinions are deemed injurious to the state? |
| Lord Hawkesbury | In the second place, though it might benefit a few individuals; instead of being advantageous, it would be highly injurious the great mass of the population of Ireland. |
| Lord Hawkesbury | Such a state of things would not only produce much internal confusion find disorder, but it would operate most injuriously with respect to the lower orders of the people, who would unavoidably, in many instances and on many occasions, become the victims of these conflicting interests. |
| Admiral Markham | last year moved for an account of the foreign timber imported, he objected to it as a disclosure which he thought at that time improper, but being now out of office, he was not capable of judging whether a similar communication would not be equally injurious at the present time. |
| The Secretary at War | As to the injurious effect upon Scotland, it was to be ascribed to the alteration in the usual average, proposed by the noble lord himself, and to obviate which, he was now suing for redress. |
| Sir J. Newport | opposed the motion for a committee, as he thought, whenever this subject was discussed, speculations took place, which were injurious, and, no doubt, would be enlarged, if the present motion were carried. |
| Lord Hutchinson. | The noble lord concluded by reading several extracts from lord Redesdale's speech of the night before; he contradicted many of the assertions of that noble lord, and called upon the Irish peers to rise in their places and vindicate the Irish nation from aspersions highly injurious to their honour, and which tended to degrade that country from the rank of civilized nations. |
| The Earl of Westmorland. | that those who had the management of Scotland knew the state and temper of that country would not bear the discussion; that it would be injurious to the catholics, injurious to the protestants, 793 May I then ask, what has happened to induce you to throw this measure wild upon the country? |
| The Earl of Westmorland. | that those who had the management of Scotland knew the state and temper of that country would not bear the discussion; that it would be injurious to the catholics, injurious to the protestants, 793 May I then ask, what has happened to induce you to throw this measure wild upon the country? |
| [MINUTES] | —A petition of several persons interested in British ships and vessels frequenting and trading to the port of London, was presented to the house, and read; taking notice of the bill to repeal two acts, passed in the 6th and 32d years of his late majesty, for the regulation of lastage and ballastage in the river Thames, and to make more effectual regulations relating thereto; and setting forth,that the same contains several clauses and provisions which, if passed into a law, would be very injurious to the petitioners; and therefore praying, that they may be heard, by counsel, against so much of the said bill as affects them, and that the same may not pass into a law as it now stands. |
| The Chancellor of the Exchequer | And I remain this day of that opinion, and I still think, if, from other circumstances, there:was no objection to complying with the demands demands of the catholics and if by a wish they could be carried into effect, I own, sir, I see none of those dangers which have been urged by some gentlemen, nor do 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. |
| Lord Redesdale | This source of discontent, injurious even to many Roman catholic families of English blood, was industriously kept alive in the memories of the lower orders of Irish descent, and constantly urged by their priests, of whom the greater part were of ancient Irish families or names; and the claim to the forfeited lands artfully placed by the side of the claim to the ecclesiastical revenues both represented as in the hands of foreign invaders, usurpers of the ancient rights of the Roman catholic clergy and laity. |
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