The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, 48. köideEdmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1808 |
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... minister , have always thought , and do s think , that an unfortunate syst of government has pervaded t whole of the present reign ; and firmly believe that system to ha been the cause of all the disast and disappointments , which t ...
... minister , have always thought , and do s think , that an unfortunate syst of government has pervaded t whole of the present reign ; and firmly believe that system to ha been the cause of all the disast and disappointments , which t ...
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... minister , that fell , most haman bosom . With regard to the unjustly , on the latter for his con- assertion , that ... Ministry on Mr. HISTORY OF EUROPE . 15.
... minister , that fell , most haman bosom . With regard to the unjustly , on the latter for his con- assertion , that ... Ministry on Mr. HISTORY OF EUROPE . 15.
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... Ministry - Opposition of the Ex - ministers -- Imperfect Union of the Parties composing the New Ministry - Reflections on the Coalition be teen Lord Grenville and Mr. Fox . was doubtful , if Mr. Pitt had little weight or consideration ...
... Ministry - Opposition of the Ex - ministers -- Imperfect Union of the Parties composing the New Ministry - Reflections on the Coalition be teen Lord Grenville and Mr. Fox . was doubtful , if Mr. Pitt had little weight or consideration ...
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... ministers were disposed to give way to the general cry of the nation ; for an administra- tion on a comprehensive basis , in- cluding all the men of the greatest talents , character and experience in the country , the court was steady ...
... ministers were disposed to give way to the general cry of the nation ; for an administra- tion on a comprehensive basis , in- cluding all the men of the greatest talents , character and experience in the country , the court was steady ...
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... ministers going out of office were under no obligation to consult the interest of their successors ; and that in a ... minister gave him a claim to some remuneration from the pablic , as the representative of his brother , whose life ...
... ministers going out of office were under no obligation to consult the interest of their successors ; and that in a ... minister gave him a claim to some remuneration from the pablic , as the representative of his brother , whose life ...
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Page 630 - Treaty signed this day. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto their seals.
Page 651 - The rights of a neutral to carry on commercial intercourse with every part of the dominions of a belligerent permitted by the laws of the country (with the exception of blockaded ports and contraband of war) was believed to have been decided between Great Britain and the United States by the sentence of...
Page 398 - Secondly, the British fleet under my command could never have returned the second time to Egypt, had not Lady Hamilton's influence with the Queen of Naples caused letters to be wrote to the Governor of Syracuse, that he was to encourage the fleet being supplied with everything, should they put into any port in Sicily. We put into Syracuse, and received every supply ; went to Egypt, and destroyed the French fleet.
Page 687 - Stuart, and of the letter which your excellency did me the honour to write to me on the...
Page 386 - I beg leave to oiler you my most sincere thanks for the honour you have done me in drinking my health, and for the very flattering manner in which that honour has been conferred.
Page 630 - The present separate article shall have the same force and value as if it were inserted, word for word, in the treaty signed this day, and shall be ratified at the same time. In faith whereof we, the undersigned, by virtue of our respective full powers, have signed the present separate article, and affixed thereto the seals of our arms.
Page 355 - And the trial by rack is utterly unknown to the law of England; though once when the dukes of Exeter and Suffolk, and other ministers of Henry VI, had laid a design to introduce the civil law into this kingdom as the rule of government, for a beginning thereof they erected a rack for torture ; which was called in derision the duke of Exeter's daughter, and still remains in the tower of London; (0) where it was occasionally used as an engine of state, not of law, more than once ,in the reign of Queen...
Page 648 - Yet the same practices are renewed in the present war and are already of great amount. On the Mobile, our commerce passing through that river continues to be obstructed by arbitrary duties and vexatious searches. Propositions for adjusting amicably the boundaries of Louisiana have not been acceded to. While, however, the right is unsettled, we have avoided changing the state of things by taking new posts or strengthening ourselves in the disputed territories, in the hope that the other power would...
Page 627 - Majesty, for granting an Aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax to be raised in. Great Britain...
Page 834 - I have eat and drank, and conversed, and sat up all night, with Fox in England ; but it never has happened, perhaps it never can happen again, that I should enjoy him as I did that day, alone, from ten in the morning till ten at night.