The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volum 2J. Ballantyne and Company, 1811 |
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Side 5
... there was not that prospect which ought to have induced reasonable men to have so sent an army . Nor were there any circumstances which could justify the sending a British army , large , it is true , as a British army , but small , as ...
... there was not that prospect which ought to have induced reasonable men to have so sent an army . Nor were there any circumstances which could justify the sending a British army , large , it is true , as a British army , but small , as ...
Side 10
... ther pursued , and the whole armed force of the country sent into the interior of Spain , the destruction of this ... there were no real differences . It was answered in a manly spirit by the Secretary of State for the Home Department ...
... ther pursued , and the whole armed force of the country sent into the interior of Spain , the destruction of this ... there were no real differences . It was answered in a manly spirit by the Secretary of State for the Home Department ...
Side 11
... there then nothing to be risked in support of a generous ally ; -nothing for the re - establish- ment of the general tranquillity ; -no- thing for our own safety and inde- pendence ? " With regard to the measures al- ready adopted by ...
... there then nothing to be risked in support of a generous ally ; -nothing for the re - establish- ment of the general tranquillity ; -no- thing for our own safety and inde- pendence ? " With regard to the measures al- ready adopted by ...
Side 12
... There was no disposition on the part of the British government to irritate Ame- rica ; on the contrary , every thing was ... ther military inquiry ; but this was not saying that there was no ground for inquiry at all . The conduct of the ...
... There was no disposition on the part of the British government to irritate Ame- rica ; on the contrary , every thing was ... ther military inquiry ; but this was not saying that there was no ground for inquiry at all . The conduct of the ...
Side 15
... there- fore , " said Mr Ponsonby , " has a diffe- rent feeling of what affects the honour of the country , and the glo- ry ... ther to send reinforcements , as well as a security that the United Pro- vinces should not abandon her in the ...
... there- fore , " said Mr Ponsonby , " has a diffe- rent feeling of what affects the honour of the country , and the glo- ry ... ther to send reinforcements , as well as a security that the United Pro- vinces should not abandon her in the ...
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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...