This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1815. Each instance is reproduced in its context as recorded in Hansard.
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| Speaker | Context |
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| Lord Grenville | and ultimately proving highly injurious even to the owners of land. |
| The Earl of Darnley | He would repeat, that if he thought it would have the injurious effects alluded to, he certainly would not vote for the measure. |
| Sir Robert Peel | He had witnessed their feelings on former occasions with great uneasiness, as they arose from a want of bread; but when they were told that it would be injurious to publish their complaints, they submitted to their hard condition with the most praiseworthy silence. |
| Sir Robert Peel | He considered the present Bill as the most injurious and unprecedented measure which had occurred in his time, as it went to affect an immensely numerous and loyal body of people, who had supported government by their labour and the advantages derived from its exercise. |
| Sir Robert Peel | He, however, yet hoped, that as the injurious tendency of the measure must now be evident, it would not be suffered to proceed, but that ministers would convince the anxious multitude that they were alive to their real and vital interests. |
| Sir Samuel Romilly | He concurred entirely in the sentiments of the persons petitioning, and thought the present one of the most-injurious measures ever brought forward in that House. |
| Mr. Methuen | begged to assure the House, that the petitions he had presented that day were not signed by manufacturers alone, but that they contained the names of many land-owners, who were convinced of the injurious tendency of the measure. |
| Lord Nugent | He thought the question had been hurried through the House, up to its present stage, in a manner indecorous to Parliament, and injurious to the people of England. |
| Mr. Philips | The House should, therefore, pause, before they adopted a measure which could not fail to be injurious to that description of persons. |
| Sir John Newport | It was hard that no petition in favour of the Bill could be presented either from landholders or commercial men, without injurious, charges being affixed to them either by the hon. gentleman or those who took the same side with him. |
| Earl Grey | Since the printing of that immense body of evidence, a general discontent had spread throughout the country; the petitioners at the bar stated, that in their opinion the measure proposed would be injurious to the trading and manufacturing interests of the country; and yet, without one additional tittle of evidence, were they now to torn round on the petitioners and say to them, they were determined to hear nothing farther on the subject. |
| Viscount Mountjoy | Delay would be to their interests highly injurious, as there were a great number of farmers at the present moment who refrained from sowing the ground until they should be secure of protection against foreign importation, under a fair protecting price. |
| The Marquis of Lansdowne | Without, however, entering now at length into the subject, he should merely observe, that it was impolitic, as light and air might be considered as part of the raw material in such manufactories,—that the tax was most unjust, because it had no connexion with the opulence of those on whom it was principally to fall; and that it was inhuman, because of the injurious effect which it must have on the health of those employed in the manufactories. |
| The Earl of Liverpool | The great object was to prevent that fluctuation in the price of the first necessary of life which was so injurious to the consumer. |
| The Earl of Liverpool | It had been urged against this measure, that it would have an injurious effect upon this great metropolis, by greatly increasing the price of grain in London compared with the country districts. |
| The Earl of Liverpool | The noble earl had contended, that a high price of corn, producing a high price of labour, was by no means injurious to the labouring classes of the community. |
| The Earl of Lauderdale | He said he had given his mind as much to this subject as any man—he had considered it in all its bearings; and the result of his deliberations was, that so far from being injurious to the community, it would prove in the highest degree beneficial. |
| The Earl of Lauderdale | With respect to the argument urged, of a high price of provisions being injurious to the manufacturers, he could only say, that the evidence of those individuals went directly to refute it. |
| Mr. Bathurst | disclaimed the intention of saying any thing injurious to the private character of the petitioner, of which he really knew nothing; but added, that he could not conceive how any individual or individuals could deem themselves liable to an imputation in paying the sum required for the petitioner's security, if such a disposition existed. |
| Earl Stanhope | Conceiving this Bill to be grossly injurious to the poorer classes, he felt it his duty to move, that it be rejected. |
| Mr. Whitbread | He would now have an opportunity of shewing that the honour of the allies had not been implicated, that there had been no breach of faith, in those acts which now appeared injurious both to their honour and their good faith. |
| Lord Castlereagh | He protested against the practice on the part of any member of that House, upon mere insinuations by the agents of foreign powers pending a negociation, (which insinuations those agents would not venture to avow in the face of Europe,) to put his Majesty's Government in this dilemma—either to defend their conduct on imperfect data, or to deliver themselves from the charge adduced against them by disclosures injurious to the public service. |
| Lord Castlereagh | Its people had recently proved themselves faithful supporters of Great Britain; and he would say that there had not been a more efficient, more faithful, and honest body of men in our service than the Hanoverian Legion; they amounted to not less than 12,000 men, to which number they had always been kept up by voluntary enrolment, and it was not too much to say that the absence of such a corps might have had a most injurious effect on our military exertions. |
| Lord Castlereagh | From these statements it is evident, that neither our Government, nor that of our Allies, are fairly responsible for any mischief that may grow out of the fortuitous event which has so unfortunately taken place; it is essential that this should be known and felt, in order to prevent those imputations and prejudices which a contrary feeling is calculated to engender, and than which there can be nothing more injurious and unfounded. |
| Mr. Frederick Douglas | From all he had been able to learn, it was a mistaken idea amongst the people of France, that the abolition would be injurious to them if suddenly effected. |
| Mr. W. Bathurst | said, it was impossible for those who had fully investigated the effect of the Bill known by the name of "lord Redesdale's Bill," not to observe that it was injurious as well to public credit as to public morals; by exciting on the one hand a lawless extravagance, and on the other by creating distrust, and destroying that useful credit which was essential to the existence of the country as a commercial nation. |
| The Marquis Wellesley | The article would have been improper, monstrous and unjust, if fulfilled; but as it was not ful- [554 filled, it roust have had the most injurious effect upon the French army, who conceived their honour pledged to the fulfilment of those articles, to the advantage of their former chief and his family, which they had obtained. |
| Lord Grenville | British minister to take a part with Russia or Prussia, or if present, that the influence of Great Britain was so small as to be unable to prevent the precipitate adoption of an arrangement so injurious to this country, that the Secretary of State repaired to Paris and endeavoured to prevent it from being carried into execution. |
| Mr. Ponsonby | From these no injurious movements could be apprehended. |
| Lord Castlereagh | Mr. Fox had contended for the general principle, that Government ought not without important reasons to be called upon to make disclosures that might be injurious to the public interest. |
| The Duke of York | Referring to the proceedings on the court-martial, on which he differed in opinion from his noble friend, he described the different lines of proceeding that might be adopted, and added, that the greatest caution was used in the selection of the officers who composed the court, lest any suspicion of bias might obtain; and adverted to certain parts of the conduct of the officers which might in their tendency be highly injurious to the discipline of the army. |
| General Gascoyne | He called the earliest attention of Government to the necessity of some modification of the measure in this respect, and gave notice that unless they evinced a disposition to do so, he would himself propose some relief to the parties aggrieved, which would not be essentially injurious to the measure itself. |
| Mr. Grattan | They would be ready to maintain the British empire with their property and their blood; but the Property-tax would bi infinitely more injurious to the sensation of Irishmen, than taxes much more productive to the state. |
| Lord Archibald Hamilton | No discussion could be so injurious to the noble lord as the belief entertained by the public, that his conduct was such as it appeared to have been from these documents, which had created a disagreeable impression against him throughout the whole country. |
| Lord Castlereagh. | —It is not out of the course of parliamentary usage, to bring forward a motion for the discussion of this Treaty, in the shape in which the right hon. gentleman finds it; and Parliament may, if it thinks proper, give its advice to the Crown, on the supposition of the Crown being on the point of entering into any engagement which it may consider injurious to the interests of the country. |
| Lord Castlereagh. | But if any honourable member conceives that advice ought to be given to the Crown, not to act in a manner which he conceives is likely to compromise the country, and lead to measures injurious to our own interest and the general interest of Europe, it is certainly competent to such hon. gentleman to raise the question in the House, and to bring it under discussion. |
| Mr. Whitbread | He wished the question to be answered before the House went into the committee of supply, but he did not wish to plunge unnecessarily into a discussion that might be injurious to the country. |
| Mr. Ponsonby | And if the House only knew their amount after the pledge had been given, it would be reduced to the alternative of either breaking the faith of treaties, or else of paying sums which it considered injurious to the country. |
| Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald | without injuriously interfering with the mercantile concerns of Ireland. |
| Marquis Wellesley | Majesty's interests!" Nothing can be more injurious to those interests than this most impolitic Declaration. |
| Mr. Speaker | The gentlemen on the opposite side professedly abstained from discussion of the merits of the case, because they alleged that discussion was then premature, and that disclosure of the documents necessary to form a right judgment would, at that period, have been injurious to the public interest. |
| Mr. Charles Grant | With respect to the policy of the annexation of Genoa to Piedmont, so far was it from being injurious to either country, that he was satisfied the union would be beneficial to both. |
| Lord Ellenborough | proposed the insertion of an amendment of some length, the principal object of which appeared to be to prevent any thing in the Act from operating to the prejudice of the sheriff, who otherwise, though an innocent person, may be affected injuriously. |
| Mr. Horner | regarded the tax as not more injurious to the commercial than to all the other great interests in which the safety and stability of the state were involved. |
| Mr. Horner | The right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer might turn a deaf ear to the complaints against a measure not more injurious to individuals than dangerous to the true interest of the state; but he would venture to predict that those complaints would soon reach him in a far different tone, and in a tone far less desirable with a view to the general advantage of the country. |
| Mr. Marryat | To prevent British merchants, however, from getting any security for the payment of goods sent out there, would be highly injurious to the general interests of British trade. |
| The Marquis of Lansdowne | He understood that the Bill was to be opposed as being injurious in cases of lunatics and the impress service, but he could not conceive how it could do any harm in either. |
| Mr. Grattan | Sir, I wish it was a question between peace and war; but unfortunately for the country, very painfully to us, and most injuriously to all ranks of men, peace is not in our option, and the real question is, whether we shall go to war when our Allies are assembled, or fight the battle, when those Allies shall be dissipated? |
| Lord Castlereagh | felt every disposition to satisfy the curiosity of the right hon. member, but he declined pledging Government to any principle of policy that might hereafter be found injurious. |
| General Thornton | was extremely averse to giving patronage to dissenters: he considered that the Bill would be injurious both to Church and State. |
| General Thornton | He did not at all desire to infringe on the Toleration Act, but he thought this Bill extremely injurious to the established religion. |
| Sir George Warrender | The measure was unknown to Scotland, ill suited to the manners and feelings of the people, and consequently injurious and oppressive. |
| Lord John Russell | rose to express his disapprobation of the war, which he declared to be impolitic in its origin, unjust in its object, and injurious in its consequences. |
| Mr. Wynn | As this was a most injurious encroachment on the comfort of the lower classes, there being at common law sufficient remedy against public indecency, if any such were complained of, 615] he thought the Bill should be allowed to pass in its present state, to put the law upon its old footing. |
| Mr. Wilberforce | If this was once admitted, many other practices might obtain, which would be injurious to the peace of the metropolis, but which had been abandoned for years. |
| Mr. Wallace | Nothing, he admitted, would be more impolitic; but so far from feeling this danger, he could see in the measure before them no encouragement afforded to the East-India ship-building beyond that which was essential, as well to the security of our valuable possessions in the East as to the 629] general political and commercial interests of this country; and instead of being injurious, he considered it as affording not a nominal, as it has been represented, but a substantial protection to the ship-builders of Great Britain against the most formidable rivalry they could encounter; a protection become the more necessary from the increased number of India-built ships registered in the course of the last year; a protection, too, in his opinion, founded less in strict justice, than in considerations of partiality to those very interests of the ship-builder at home, of which the advocates of the Bill were accused of being so culpably destitute. |
| Mr. Whitbread | To him, likewise, are we indebted for an additional anecdote of Buonaparté, which shows that those maps of England, whence danger might be apprehended, were in our enemy's possession, while we were withholding others, which could not by any means be considered injurious. |
| The Earl of Darnley | Perhaps the most injurious consequence of the naval disasters we have experienced in our late contest with the United States, has been the moral effect produced by them on the minds of our seamen. |
| Mr. A. Browne | There would then be some foundation for this extravagant proceeding, and the House would find its own justification in the necessity of the case: but as the case stood, without any parliamentary evidence of the existence of the evil—without having ascertained whether the legislatures themselves will do, of their own accord, that which the House is required to do for them offensively and injuriously; it would be highly unwise for the House to go the length that the hon. gentleman had proposed: it was not necessary for the purpose which the hon. gentleman professed to have in view, and if it was necessary for other purposes, surely it became the House to look upon it with some suspicion, and to consider its probable effect upon the general interests of the colonies, which had been established by the Parliament of this country, at the best period of its history, and continued during a 779] period of two centuries. |
| Mr. Turney | The insolent manner in which we conducted ourselves in every question, made us very generally hated throughout Europe, and was greatly injurious to the interests of the country.—[Hear, hear! |
| Sir John Newport | The right hon. baronet then moved, "That an humble Address be presented to his royal highness the Prince Regent, to represent to his Royal Highness's consideration, that the state of the Fisheries carried on by the subjects of the United Kingdom on the coasts of Newfoundland, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and on the coast of Labrador, from the magnitude of its commercial and political consequences seriously affecting the active industry and maritime strength of the empire, is highly deserving of the most serious attention, and the vigilant unremitting protection of the Executive Government and the Legislature: "That such protection is peculiarly called for at this period, when the Treaty of 1783 with the United States having ceased to exist, and no part of its highly injurious provisions respecting the Fisheries having been renewed by the late Treaty of Peace with that Power, the subjects of this United Kingdom may be entitled to hope that their unexampled exertions in this active and interesting branch of commerce will be adequately 825] secured and protected; exertions which are stated to have engaged in those Fisheries during the last year above 80,000 tons of shipping, taking and conveying to home and foreign markets nearly one million of quintals of fish, and above 6,500 tuns of oil; the actual value of which exceeded 2,700,000l. |
| Lord Sheffield | said, he could not reconcile it to himself to suffer a Bill of such a nature to be read a second time in silence; [848 as one more mischievous in its tendency, or more calculated to produce injurious consequences to the vital interests of the country, he never knew. |
| The Earl of Buckinghamshire | Upon the whole this was a measure of great advantage in a public view; and it would not be injurious, but the contrary, to the ship-building interests of Great Britain, though he admitted that it might prove disadvantageous to the Thames ship-builders. |
| Mr. Speaker | The same motive, however, which led me to drop the renewal of the subject, will still prevent me from alluding to any other part of those proceedings which does not immediately relate to the question before the House; and that I way not be misunderstood, I beg to say, that it arises solely from the consideration of colonel Quentin being again in service with his regiment, and the repugnance I feel to any act that may be injurious to him under such circumstances. |
| Mr. Speaker | But whatever may be the policy of this measure with regiments in England, yet looking to their services abroad, nothing can be more injurious to discipline; and under such a system, the excesses of the men upon arriving in a foreign country where they can break loose are inevitable. |
| Mr. Speaker | These regulations went to [930 diminish the power of Regimental Courtsmartial, and which, upon foreign service at least, were found to be extremely inconvenient and injurious to discipline. |
| Mr. Speaker | [The hon. member was here called to order by colonel Wood, who thought the hon. member could hardly justify himself in entering into details which he con- [932 ceived did not relate to the question before the House, but were injurious to the character and feelings of the officer to whom they applied.] |
| Mr. Manners Sutton | He conceived that the making a distinction between the punishment abroad and at home, would lead to an invidious comparison extremely injurious to the service. |
| Lord Castlereagh | A discussion more painful to individuals, or more injurious to the best interests of the country, could not be conceived, than where a question of provision foe the use of the Royal family was examined through the medium of private feeling. |
| Lord Castlereagh | Nothing could be more unfair, or more injurious, in a country where political feelings were carried so far, than to perplex ministers by questions of such a nature. |
| General Thornton | expressed his regret at the frequent attacks made upon the Bank in that House, as being injurious to that establishment, and consequently to the public. |
| Sir Henry Parnell | They also paralised the administration of justice in the country, by prejudicing, and in some instances involving the integrity of the magistracy, and extending, even to the minds of jurors, a bias which was most injurious to the cause of justice—fatal instances of the operation of such feelings were practically known." This, resumed the hon. baronet, is the general character of those associations. |
| Mr. Peel | It was wholly inexpedient, and its introduction at this moment highly injurious. |
| Mr. Peel | He gave full credit to the consistency of the hon. baronet, in thus bringing forward his motion; at all events, the charge of precipitation would be the last which he would adduce against him, for it seemed to be a part of his system to make this motion at so late a period of the session, as to enable him to make a speech, without, at the same time, incurring the risk of creating the injurious effect which the adoption of his motion was calculated to produce. |
| Mr. Barham | He believed it was intended to be the ground-work of another Bill, which would perhaps be the means of producing many benefits to the situation of the slaves in the West India islands; and to any Bill that in his opinion tended to the amelioration of the condition of the slaves themselves, no man in that House or out of it would be found to be more friendly; but he could not bring himself to vote for the present Bill, because it supposed a traffic of a very injurious [1128 kind, which he did not admit to exist. |
| Mr. A. Browne | With- [1130 out this ground of proceeding, the House would set out on a crusade of legislation derogatory to the character of Parliament, and which, growing out of the ardent zeal and inflamed stale of men's minds in the attainment of a favourite object, might lead to consequences highly injurious to other interests connected with that favourite object. |
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