...the ill-treatment of slaves in Barbadoes (June 19). A week later he gave evidence before a committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of the metropolitan police, and confuted, by means of a number of incontrovertible facts, the fallacious...

...Returns from the Register of Parish Infant Poor kept according to 7 Geo. III. c. 39 made to a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of the infant poor and the working of the Act. CJ,, 1st May 1778. E. The Parish Clerks' Summary of the...

...Torrens to Lord John Russell, as well as by some evidence which the former gave before a Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of South Australia. This Committee found that the Commissioners themselves held land in the colony (Torrens...

...natives was a part of the task, and at times he discharged it in very drastic fashion. A Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of New Zealand had laid down the doctrine that " the uncivilized inhabitants of any country have but a...

...where he became a police magistrate in London. In 1 793 he was called to testify before a committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of the trade to Newfoundland. Insofar as Graham was concerned, the inquiry became in effect a careful...

...season, to the amount originally raised. On the subject of such societies generally, a late Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the arts and manufactures, says in its report : — " These associations for the purchase of pictures...

...Counties, in the Autumn of 1835, London 1836, p. 261; Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to Inquire into the State of Ireland since the year 1835 in respect to Crime and Outrage, HC 1839 (486), xi and xii, Question 3792;...

...mode of treatment by the Wardens of the Fleet of -their prisoners. There was a report from a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of the gaols in the kingdom, so far as related to the cruel usage of the prisoners. " And how can I forget...

...felt, from the utter impossibility of procuring timber of certain forms and dimensions, which was once considered as indispensable in the construction of...sense,' then the Report of the Commissioners, appointed to inquire into the state and condition of the woods, forests, and land revenues of the crown, made...

...treaty of 1783. The right was distinctly recognized in a report, dated April 24, 1793, of a committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of the trade to Newfoundland, in the following language: By that treaty (1783) the North American colonies,...