Lord Durhams Speech On the Second Reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lo
Lord Durhams Speech On the Second Reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lo
John George Lambton Durham
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7, 000, 000. In one reign alone, that of George III. , . 27, 000, 000 were lavished in subsidies to all the great powers of the continent*. In the same . * Austria . . . 7, 070, 000 Prussia . . . 1, 683, 000 Russia . . . 1, 952, 000 Sicily . . . 2, 300, 000 Sweaen . . . 2, 706, 673 Spain- . . . 2, 637, 831 Ditto . . . 673, 441 Portugal . . . 8, 380, 000 . 27, 402, 945 exclusive of of. 4, 000, 000, granted to French, Corsican, and Toulouse emigrants French clergy St. Domingo, Russian, Portuguese... sufferers, &c. &c. 16 period, the naval and military expenditure amounted to . 928, 000, 000 that is to say, the luxury of indulging in war cost this country a sum little less than ONE THOUSAND MILLIONS. All these proofs of an unlimited and unchecked ex- penditure, and many others*, which I need not now detail, became known to the people at the conclusion of the war. Great distress followed much discontent and loud complaints prevailed and how were they met ? by conciliation or con- cession ? No by every species of repressive and coercive enactment.
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