The Speech was adopted by the House of Lords, amendments hostile to the proposed measure being rejected by large majorities.
They passed both Houses by large majorities, perhaps because he offered to landlords the option of redeeming their land at twenty years' purchase.
Despite excellent speeches by Fox and Grey, and by Grenville and Holland in the Lords, the motions for Catholic Emancipation were rejected by large majorities.
The conduct of the administration, however, received the full approbation of large majorities, but the triumph these victories in parliament afforded them was of short duration.
The speech from the throne breathed a settled purpose to continue the war, and the addresses from both houses, which were carried by large majorities, echoed the sentiment.
Johnson, Sutton, Kerr and Williston, were elected by large majorities.
On May 31st, elections were held in Restigouche and Sunbury, and, in these counties, the candidates in favour of confederation were returned by large majorities.
Bills of the utmost importance, which had been passed bylarge majorities in the House of Assembly, and which were demanded by the people, were frequently rejected by the council without being even discussed.
It was carried rapidly through the Lords by large majorities, and on the 23rd it received the royal assent.
By means of the cry of “the Church in danger,” a remarkable reaction was effected, and the ministry found themselves commanding large majorities in the new House.
A few days after the success of Wilkes an act was passed, by large majorities in both houses, for disfranchising many corrupt voters of the borough of Crick-lade, and extending the right of suffrage to the freeholders of the hundred.
The addresses in both houses contained strong expressions of gratitude to the king for having dissolved the late parliament; and amendments to omit these expressions, on the ground of unanimity, were negatived by large majorities.
But his exertions this time were scarcely needed, for Lord North himself, and other ministers gave the bill their warmest support, and it passed the commons by large majorities.
Sheridan and Charles Grey, afterwards the second Earl Grey, in his maiden speech joined him in condemning the treaty, but it was approved of by large majorities.
The bill, though opposed in both houses on the plea that it was unfair to the landed interest, was carried by large majorities.
They were debated at some length in both houses of the English parliament, but were carried by large majorities.
But the obvious advantages of the change prevailed over these considerations, and the bill was carried by large majorities.
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