Annual Register, 42. köideEdmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1801 |
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Page 74
... lord Grenville , the British minifter for foreign affairs , was very unlike to that of Buonaparte . Buona- parte's letter was full of good fenfe , equally free from republican fana- ticifm , and courtly adulation . The anfwer of lord ...
... lord Grenville , the British minifter for foreign affairs , was very unlike to that of Buonaparte . Buona- parte's letter was full of good fenfe , equally free from republican fana- ticifm , and courtly adulation . The anfwer of lord ...
Page 76
... lord Grenville intimated that he would , the next day , bring down a meflage from his majefty , and at the fame time ... lord Gren- ville moved , that his majesty's meffage be taken into confideration , on Tuesday next , " which was ...
... lord Grenville intimated that he would , the next day , bring down a meflage from his majefty , and at the fame time ... lord Gren- ville moved , that his majesty's meffage be taken into confideration , on Tuesday next , " which was ...
Page 79
... Lord Grenville , had heard it re- ported , as a matter of opinion , that it was the peculiar intereft of the first conful to make peace . He was convinced that it might be the in- tereft of general Buonaparte to con- folidate his power ...
... Lord Grenville , had heard it re- ported , as a matter of opinion , that it was the peculiar intereft of the first conful to make peace . He was convinced that it might be the in- tereft of general Buonaparte to con- folidate his power ...
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... lord Grenville's letter , it had been ftated , that no advantage could arife from negociation until it fhould diftinctly appear , that the principles , which originally pro- duced the war , had cease to ope- rate . If Buonaparte was ...
... lord Grenville's letter , it had been ftated , that no advantage could arife from negociation until it fhould diftinctly appear , that the principles , which originally pro- duced the war , had cease to ope- rate . If Buonaparte was ...
Page 84
... Lord Borring- don afked if that looked like a fin- cere defire of continuing the peace . Lord Romney had little faith to place in Buonaparte's profeffions . The chief conful might mean by thefe merely to perplex our govern- ment , and ...
... Lord Borring- don afked if that looked like a fin- cere defire of continuing the peace . Lord Romney had little faith to place in Buonaparte's profeffions . The chief conful might mean by thefe merely to perplex our govern- ment , and ...
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