28 results filtered with: Cartwright, John, 1740-1824
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American independence the interest and glory of Great-Britain. A new edition. To which is added, a copious appendix, containing two additional Letters to the Legislature; a letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; controverting his Principles of American Government. And a postscript, containing new Arguments on the Subject; A Draught for a Bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for restoring Peace and Harmony between Great-Britain and British America, and for perpetuating the same: Together with The essential Materials for a proposed Grand British League and Confederacy, to be entered into by Great-Britain and all the States of British America. The whole of which shews, beyond Denial or Doubt, that by granting the Colonists an unrestrained civil Freedom and Legislative Independence, we may most effectually secure their future Commercial Dependence upon, and consequently shall best promote the Interest and support the Glory of, Great-Britain. It is not to be hoped, in the corrupt State of human Nature, that any Nation will be subject to another, any longer than it finds its own Account in it, and cannot help itself. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * No Creatures suck the Teats of their Dams longer than they can draw Milk from them, or can provide themselves with better Food; nor will any Country continue their Subjection to another, only because their great Grand-Mothers were acquainted. This is the Course of human Affairs, and all wise States will always have it before their Eyes. Trenchard on Plantations and Colonies, in Cato's Letters, No. 106. Anno 1722.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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A summary of a treatise by Major Cartwright, entitled The people's barrier against undue influence: or the Commons' House of Parliament according to the constitution.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: [1780?]- Books
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An appeal, on the subject of the English constitution. By John Cartwright, Esq.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: [1797]- Books
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Letters to the deputies of the associated and petitioning counties, cities, and towns; on the means necessary to a reformation of Parliament. By Major John Cartwright.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A letter to the High Sheriff of the county of Lincoln, respecting the bills of Lord Grenville and Mr. Pitt, for altering the criminal law of England, respecting treason and sedition. Including a copy of the author's petition to the Honourable House of Commons, presented by Mr. Fox, on Wednesday the 25th of November, 1795. By John Cartwright, Esq.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1795- Books
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Internal evidence; or an inquiry how far truth and the Christian religion have been consulted by the author of Thoughts on a Parliamentary reform. By John Cartwright, Esq;
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1784- Books
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The legislative rights of the commonalty vindicated; or, take your choice! Representation and Respect: Imposition and Contempt. Annual Parliaments and Liberty: Long Parliaments and Slavery. Wherein it is contended, upon the Unalterable Principles of Law and the Constitution, that an Equal and Complete Representation in Parliament, and Annual Elections, are at this Day the undoubted Rights of the Commonalty of this Realm; notwithstanding the supposed Validity of certain Acts of Parliament: And wherein is also shewn precisely how far (and it is to a most alarming Degree) the People are Absolutely Enslaved already, notwithstanding they vainly imagine themselves free. The second edition. By John Cartwright.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1777- Books
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American independence the interest and glory of Great Britain; containing arguments which prove, that not only in taxation, but in trade, manufactures, and government, the colonies are entitled to an entire independency on the British legislature; and that it can only be b a formal declaration of these rights, and forming thereupon a friendly league with them, that the true and lasting welfare of both countries can be promoted. In a series of letters to the legislature. [Nine lines from Trenchard]
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A declaration of the rights of Englishmen.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1784?]- Books
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American independence the interest and glory of Great Britain; or, arguments to prove, that not only in taxation, but in trade, manufactures, and government, the colonies are entitled to an entire independency on the British legislature; and that it can only be by a formal Declaration of these Rights, and forming thereupon a friendly League with them, that the true and lasting Welfare of both Countries can be promoted. In a Series of Letters to the Legislature. To which are added copious Notes; containing Reflections on the Boston and Quebec Acts; and a full Justification of the People of Boston, for destroying the British-Taxed Tea; submitted to the Judgment, not of those who have none but borrowed Party-Opinions, but of the Candid and Honest.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A letter to the High Sheriff of the county of Lincoln, respecting the Bills of Lord Grenville and Mr. Pitt, for Altering the Criminal Law of England, respecting Treason and Sedition. including A Copy of the Author's Petition to the Honourable House of Commons, presented by Mr. Fox, on Wednesday the 25th of November, 1795. By John Cartwright, Esq.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1795- Books
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The commonwealth in danger; with an introduction, containing remarks on some late writings of Arthur Young, Esq. By John Cartwright, Esq.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1795- Books
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A letter to the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Nottingham, Auditor of the Exchequer, &c. &c. &c. Respecting His Grace's Conduct in the Disposal of Commissions in the Militia: Together with some Remarks Touching the French Revolution; A Reform of Parliament in Great Britain, and The Royal Proclamation of the 21st of May. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing an Effectual Plan for Providing Navy Timber; Opposed to the Dangerous and Unprofitable System of Cultivating the Public Forests under the Management of Officers of the Crown. By Major Cartwright.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The people's barrier against undue influence and corruption: or the Commons' House of Parliament according to the constitution. In which the Objections to an equal Representation and new Parliaments once in every year at least are answered: And a digested Plan for the Whole is submitted to the Public. By John Cartwright.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1780- Books
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[John Cartwright correspondence].
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824Date: 2008-- Books
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An appeal, civil and military, on the subject of the English constitution. By John Cartwright, Esq. Being a second edition of part the first: to which are now added, parts the second and third; Containing, Strictures ON A Gross Violation Of The Constitution; A Constitutional System of Military Defence; Reflections ON The Utter Incompatibility Of A Standing Army With National Freedom, &c. &c.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1799- Books
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A summary of a treatise by Major Cartwright, entitled The people's barrier against undue influence: or the Commons' House of Parliament, according to the constitution.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1782]- Books
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Take your choice! Representation and respect: imposition and contempt. Annual Parliaments and liberty: long Parliaments and slavery.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Give us our rights! Or, a letter to the present electors of Middlesex and the Metropolis, shewing what those rights are: and that, according to a just and equal representation, Middlesex and the Metropolis are intitled to have fifty members in the Commons' House of Parliament; forty of whom are now placed there by decayed cinque ports and almost unpeopled boroughs; To The Perpetual Nurture Of Corruption, And The Ruin Of The State. By John Cartwright, Esq; Major to the Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: [1782]- Books
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Authentic copies of A declaration of the rights of Englishmen; a bill for a reform in Parliament: and a letter to Lieut. Col. Sharman, by His Grace the Duke of Richmond. To which is subjoined, extracts from the speech of the Right Hon. William Pitt, on a reform of Parliament.
Date: 1794- Books
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The people's barrier against undue influence and corruption: or the Commons' House of Parliament according to the constitution. In which the Objections to an equal Representation and new Parliaments once in every year at least are answered: And a digested Plan for the Whole is submitted to the Public. By John Cartwright.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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A letter from John Cartwright, Esq. to a friend at Boston, in the county of Lincoln; and to all other commoners who have associated in support of the constitution.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1793- Books
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The postscript to Major Cartwright's reply to Soame Jenyns, Esq; humbly recommended to the perusal of Lord North's admirers, previous to his Lordship's next speech against a parliamentary reform.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A letter to the High Sheriff of the county of Lincoln, respecting the bills of Lord Grenville and Mr. Pitt, for altering the criminal law of England, respecting treason and sedition. Including a copy of the author's petition to the Honorable House of Commons, presented by Mr. Fox, on Wednesday the 25th of November, 1795. By John Cartwright, Esq.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1795- Books
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A letter to Edmund Burke, Esq, controverting the principles of American government, laid down in his lately published speech on American taxation, delivered in the House of Commons, on the 19th of April, 1774.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]