The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volum 2J. Ballantyne and Company, 1811 |
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Side ix
... taken for the Prince of Bra- zil by a Portugueze and British Force . Capture of Senegal . CHAP . XV . Disputes with America . Debates upon the Orders in Council . Excellent Speech of Mr Stephen . Effects of the Embargo upon the British ...
... taken for the Prince of Bra- zil by a Portugueze and British Force . Capture of Senegal . CHAP . XV . Disputes with America . Debates upon the Orders in Council . Excellent Speech of Mr Stephen . Effects of the Embargo upon the British ...
Side 11
... taken up arms in their own defence . The territory of Spain was as large as that of France within its ancient limits , and the country possessed many local advantages for defence , -advantages , the value of which the Spanish his- tory ...
... taken up arms in their own defence . The territory of Spain was as large as that of France within its ancient limits , and the country possessed many local advantages for defence , -advantages , the value of which the Spanish his- tory ...
Side 26
... taken not to suffer the imputation of a blot of that kind in the war for Spain ; and against such a suspicion ministers had most cautiously guarded the honour of their country . It certainly had been possible for us , at the commence ...
... taken not to suffer the imputation of a blot of that kind in the war for Spain ; and against such a suspicion ministers had most cautiously guarded the honour of their country . It certainly had been possible for us , at the commence ...
Side 30
... taken that course , by his ela- borate researches for examples which might keep the French government in countenance . Whoever produces gratuitously , in the discussion of one crime , examples and instances of greater ones , extenuates ...
... taken that course , by his ela- borate researches for examples which might keep the French government in countenance . Whoever produces gratuitously , in the discussion of one crime , examples and instances of greater ones , extenuates ...
Side 96
... taken by government for that purpose . He was answered by Mr Perceval , that it certainly was the intention of government to make the kind of provision alluded to ; but on this being intimated to the female part of the family , they ...
... taken by government for that purpose . He was answered by Mr Perceval , that it certainly was the intention of government to make the kind of provision alluded to ; but on this being intimated to the female part of the family , they ...
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Side 332 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Side 85 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? The...
Side 417 - But I have it in express charge from the President to state that while he forbears to insist on the further punishment of the offending officer, he is not the less sensible of the justice and utility of such an example, nor the less persuaded that it would best comport with what is due from his Britannic Majesty to his own honor.
Side 223 - Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
Side 151 - Master French must mind what he is about, or I shall cut up him and his levy too.
Side 416 - Upon receiving through you, on the part of the American Government, a distinct and official Recognition of the three above-mentioned Conditions, His Majesty will lose no time in sending to America a Minister fully empowered to consign them to a formal and regular Treaty.
Side 3 - Portugal, and the deliverance of the kingdom of his ally from the presence and oppressions of the French army, his Majesty most deeply regretted the termination of that campaign by an armistice and convention, of some of the articles of which his Majesty has felt himself obliged formally to declare his disapprobation...
Side 269 - ... generate a kind of expansive force, that will burst asunder even the best compacted governments. The abuses, too, serve to give a direction to the discontent and angry feeling produced in the first instance by the taxes. They stand in the place of the abstract rights of a few years ago, and are the last improvement made in the machine for overturning states, from which it is conceived to derive a much greater heft and purchase, than in its old form of
Side 173 - I do, in the most solemn manner, upon my honour as a prince, distinctly assert my innocence, not only by denying all corrupt participation in any of the infamous transactions which have appeared in evidence at the bar of the house of commons, or any connivance at their existence, but also the slightest knowledge or suspicion that they existed at all.
Side 793 - I am confident, in no respect contribute to this object, nor could it I think be considered in any other light than as a dereliction of public principle. This answer which I must have given to any such proposal, if made while...