Excerpt from The Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 1: Forming a Continuation of the Work Entitled "the Parliamentary History of England From the Earliest Period to the Year 1803"; Comprising the Period From the Twenty-First Day of April to the Twenty-Sixth Day of June, 1820 Whoever has had frequent occasion to recur to the Proceedings in Par liament of former times, must have experienced those dificulties which it is the object of the present Work to remove. Merely to find the several works wherein is contained an account of the Parliamentary Proceedings, is, at this day, no easy matter; some of them being very scarce, and others excessively voh luminous. Hardly any of them, those of the last twenty years excepted, are to be purchased regularly at the Booksellers. The far greater part of them are to be come at by accident only; and, of course, sometimes not to be obtained at all. But, supposing them all to be at hand, the price of them is no trifling object; and, in many cases, 'must present a difficulty not to be easily, or, at least, willingly surmounted. Of these works, taken in their chrono logical order, the first is, The Parliamentary or Constitutional History, in Twenty-four Volumes; the second, sir Simonds d'ewes's Journal of Queen Elizabeth's Parliaments the third, Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons in 1620 and 1621, collected by a member of that House, and published from his Original Manuscript in the Library of Queen's College, Oxford, in Two Volumes; the fourth, Chandler's and Timberland's De bates, in Twenty-two Volumes; the fifth, Debates of the House of Commans, from 1667 to 1694, collected by the Honourable Anchitell Grey, Esq, who was thirty years member for the town of Derby, in ten Volumes; the sixth, Almon's Debates, from 1743 to 1780, in Twenty-four Volumes; and the seventh, Debrett's Debates, from 1780 to in Sixty-three Vo lumes. But still, with all these, the information wanted is very imperfect, without perpetually having recourse to the Journals of the two Hausa, which Journals occupy upwards of a hundred volumes in folio: so that the price of a complete set of the works, in this way, cannot, upon an average of purchases, be reckoned at less than One Hundred and Fifty Pounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.