This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1810. Each instance is reproduced in its context as recorded in Hansard.
This survey forms part of the evidence for the correct legal interpretation of injurious weeds in the Weeds Act 1959. See also why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law.
| Speaker | Context |
|---|---|
| Sir John Sebright | He contended that nothing could be more injurious to his Majesty, than the manner in which the word loyalty had on many occasions been prostituted. |
| Sir John Sebright | It was equally injurious to the King, and inconsistent with the constitution. |
| Earl Grosvenor | In the first, place, he was apprehensive that if the House were to be called upon to vote thanks for every instance of the display of valour, the proceeding would draw after it injurious results. |
| Earl Grosvenor | Whenever consequences no way beneficial, still more injurious, resulted to the country, from any operation of an army, whatever admiration might attach itself to the conduct of that army during such operation, he did not perceive the propriety of their being publicly thanked by the Parliament. |
| Mr. Creevey | Was it not already well known, that a traffic had been for some time carried on, of buying up specie, for the purposes of exportation, at an actual premium of 30 per cent, above its current value: and could any thing be more seriously injurious to the interests of the country than consequences such as these, resulting from this system of licences, under the Orders in Council, to which so much of our national prosperity was attributed? |
| Mr. Simeon | It was absurd to conceive that the system which benefited the whole should be radically injurious to the parts. |
| Mr. Croker | It was inconvenient, and not only was it inconvenient, but was absolutely injurious to the public service and destructive of public justice. |
| Sir John Orde | To try his lordship after this, or here to try the merits of the court martial, I think would be as unjust as injurious to the service, and consequently I shall give my vote against producing the Minutes, unless some reasons shall be offered in support of the motion very different from any yet submitted, or any that I can anticipate. |
| General Loft | called upon the House to consider well what they were about, be- 227 fore they assented to the noble lord's motion; for nothing could more injuriously affect the discipline both of the army and navy than that parliament should take into its hands the revision of the proceedings of Courts Martial. |
| The Chancellor of the Exchequer, | The result had been highly injurious to the enemy, and had the effect of not only disabling, but of removing the enemy's whole squadron from the possibility of being for a considerable time available for the purposes of the naval campaign. |
| Mr. Henry Thornton | Considering the bill, therefore, as advantageous to the public, and not injurious to the prerogative, he should beg leave to second the motion. |
| Sir Samuel Romilly | Yet there was no resource—the situation he held would legally be vested, and, however injurious to the interests of the country, the situation he must enjoy. |
| Mr. Sheridan | He verily believed he was one of the last men who would lend himself to such a purpose and he was, therefore, greatly surprised at his persisting in a measure which could not fail of being highly repugnant to the feelings of the public, as well as highly injurious to the interests of the nation. |
| Mr. Sheridan | His right hon. friend had asserted a broad general principle, that the publication of the proceedings of parliament was injurious to the country. |
| Lord Grenville | He would ever maintain, that all legislative interference with the interests of commerce must invariably produce injurious consequences; but no legal fetters were so galling to commercial success, as those to which he alluded. |
| Lord Mulgrave | One of these Reports was the eighth, which related to Northfleet, and he should be extremely sorry to see it produced, for thereby the contents might transpire, and reach the enemy, which would be injurious to the best interests of the country. |
| Mr. Parnell | Besides, it was most impolitic to look for relief by a measure which was to interfere so injuriously with the agricultural interests of the country. |
| Mr. Rose | From the superabundance of the crop, the prohibition was unnecessary, and would be injurious. |
| Mr. Foster | observed, that nothing could be more injurious, than that it should be supposed that a desire for a war of prohibitions existed in either country. |
| Sir F. Burdett | had allowed that it was injurious to the service that the practice should be continued, a practice which he stated was sanctioned by time. |
| The Chancellor of the Exchequer | To withhold the pension, therefore, he contended, would be injurious to the individual—injurious to the public service, and inconsistent with the justice and liberality of parliament. |
| The Chancellor of the Exchequer | To withhold the pension, therefore, he contended, would be injurious to the individual—injurious to the public service, and inconsistent with the justice and liberality of parliament. |
| Mr. Lyttleton | Much had been said in that House on the subject of party; he was willing to acknowledge he was a party man; he would always support a party whose conduct should be directed to the support of the vital interests of the country; but he thought nothing could, in the end, prove more injurious to those interests, than an unjust or merited distribution of national honours. |
| Sir F. Burdett | The hon. member (Mr. Herbert) who had lately spoken, seemed to think that the battle of Talavera was important, only because it was calculated to do away the Sarcastic injurious remarks of the French emperor; but he could not believe that the character of the country, or of its army, was, indeed, sunk so low, as to render the escape from sarcasm of such importance, as to compensate for the havoc of that day.—A comparison had been instituted between the battle of Talavera and the battles of Dettingen and Agincourt; but there was no resemblance whatever between them; besides, he did not hear that either of them was followed up by pensions. |
| Mr. Wilberforce | Was it possible that an example would be presented so degrading to the character of the country, and so injurious to its interests, calculated as it must be, to damp the spirit of that army upon whose ardour and zeal the country had to rely for its safety?—The House was bound even upon principles of consistency, to adopt the motion. |
| Mr. M. Fitzgerald | A penitentiary for prisoners merely he approved; but, he hoped, it was not intended as a prelude to the establishment there of the poor laws of England, than which nothing could be more injurious to all ranks of people in 469 Ireland. |
| Lord Cochrane | In all these points of view this was a matter of primary importance; for in all these repects were the abuses of the Admiralty of the most injurious description. |
| Sir J Nichols, | Nothing could be more injurious to the interests of the navy itself, than permission to the captors of ships to choose their own proctor, and nothing could be more fatal to the commercial interests of the country. |
| Sir S. Romilly | If there should be no such paper in existence, then all doubts would be satisfactorily cleared up; the characters of the distinguished officers supposed to be aspersed, would stand as high as ever, when it should be obvious that they had not been injuriously affected by any secret insituations. |
| Viscount Sidmouth | This listless inactivity was followed by consequences of a most injurious nature—it frequently induced them to sell their reversion for an inadequate consideration—it often excited them to give way to pernicious habits, was often succeeded by pecuniary embarrassments, and sometimes terminated their lives in wretchedness and infamy. |
| Mr. Grattan | He thought it ought to be modified; for putting it broadly, it was calculated to awaken apprehension of injurious consequences to these realms, and more particularly if looked at in reference to the present situation of the spiritual head of the Roman Catholic religion. |
| Mr. Hutchinson | A Petition of the Roman Catholics of the county and city of Cork, whose names are thereunto subscribed, on behalf of themselves and others, his Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland, was likewise presented to the House by Mr. Hutchinson and read; setting forth, "That the Roman Catholics of Ireland, amounting to four millions at least of his Majesty's subjects, constituting a vast majority of the population of that part of the United Kingdom, and contributing largely and liberally to increase the revenues and to recruit the fleets and armies of the empire, have long suffered and do still suffer from the restraint of laws humiliating in their provisions and most injurious in their effects, and that their services to the country have been at all times conspicuous and important; at home they have improved and extended the arts, agriculture and manufactures, abroad they have promoted the success and exalted the glory of the British arms, yet they are ignominiously proscribed from all the higher ranks of trust or honour in the state, shut out from the just rewards of a laudable ambition, and degraded below the condition of the meanest of their fellow subjects; and that under these circumstances the petitioners beg leave most earnestly to solicit the attention of the House to the imminent dangers which must result from a system of legislation so oppressive and impolitic, at a time when one mighty enemy has laid prostrate almost every other nation of Europe, rendered incapable of effectual resistance by the discontents and disunion of their people, and when the safety of our own is threatened by the same powerful and implacable foe; and the petitioners do beg leave to state, that to restore the Roman Catholics of Ireland a full and unqualified participation in the benefits of the constitutions of their country, and to remove all the restrictions and vexatious distinctions which affect them, is now become 641 a measure absolutely necessary for the preservation of this kingdom from the perils which surround it; and therefore praying the House, to take into its most serious consideration the nature, extent, and operation of the aforesaid penal laws, and by repealing the same altogether, to restore to the Roman Catholics of Ireland those rights so long withheld, and their due share in that constitution which they in common with their fellow subjects of every other description contribute by taxes, by arms, and by industry to sustain and defend." And the said Petitions were severally ordered to lie upon the table. |
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