The Annual Register, Volumen108Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1867 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... companies from America might attempt a landing . The county and town of Limerick were proclaimed under the Peace Preservation Act . The police were incessantly employed in searching for arms , and by their exertions very large ...
... companies from America might attempt a landing . The county and town of Limerick were proclaimed under the Peace Preservation Act . The police were incessantly employed in searching for arms , and by their exertions very large ...
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... companies . The tax on all such carriages he proposed to reduce from one penny , as charged at present , to one farthing per mile . These reductions would dispose of 562,000 , being rather more than half of the estimated surplus . He ...
... companies . The tax on all such carriages he proposed to reduce from one penny , as charged at present , to one farthing per mile . These reductions would dispose of 562,000 , being rather more than half of the estimated surplus . He ...
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... companies , framed on the French model , were summarily crushed . The rate of 10 per cent . discount imposed on the Bank of England by Government as a condition of the additional power of issue , lasted from the 11th of May to the 17th ...
... companies , framed on the French model , were summarily crushed . The rate of 10 per cent . discount imposed on the Bank of England by Government as a condition of the additional power of issue , lasted from the 11th of May to the 17th ...
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... companies . The most prosperous and solvent undertakings suffer from the doubts thrown by unscrupulous directors and managers on the reality of their profits , and more especially on the security of their debentures . But the financial ...
... companies . The most prosperous and solvent undertakings suffer from the doubts thrown by unscrupulous directors and managers on the reality of their profits , and more especially on the security of their debentures . But the financial ...
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... companies and squadrons still kept on foot , we have rather strengthened than weakened our regiments . The natural guardian of the interests of the ariny , I should not have consented to those reductions if they had been likely to ...
... companies and squadrons still kept on foot , we have rather strengthened than weakened our regiments . The natural guardian of the interests of the ariny , I should not have consented to those reductions if they had been likely to ...
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