Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshall Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K.G.: 1929-1830J. Murray, 1877 - Great Britain |
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Popular passages
Page 540 - ... for the forbearance of one hundred pounds for a year; and so after that rate for a greater or lesser sum, or for a longer or Shorter time...
Page 347 - Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all the territories, islands, and countries in North America, belonging to the crown of Great Britain, bounded on the south by a line from the bay of Chaleurs, along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the sea...
Page 347 - Champlain, in forty-five degrees of north latitude, passes along the Highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the sea, and also along the north coast of the Bay des Chaleurs and the Coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to Cape Rosiers ; and from thence, crossing the mouth of the river St. Lawrence, by the west end of the island of Anticosti, terminates at the aforesaid river St. John.
Page 544 - An Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe...
Page 285 - I am very glad indeed to hear that you think well of the Police. It has given me from first to last more trouble than anything I ever undertook. But the men are gaining a knowledge of their duties so rapidly, that I am very sanguine of the ultimate result. I want to teach people that liberty does not consist in having your house robbed by organised gangs of thieves, and in leaving the principal streets of London in the nightly possession of drunken women and vagabonds.
Page 540 - ... engine, or deceitful conveyance for the forbearing or giving day of payment for one whole year, of and for their money or other thing, above the sum of six...
Page 80 - The Ottoman Empire is not a country like some of those whose example we could cite within our own times, which after having been invaded, resume their domestic tranquillity and their political existence upon the retreat of the invaders ; once broken up, its capital taken and its provinces in rebellion, the recomposition of it as an independent state would be a work scarcely within the reach of human integrity and human skill.
Page 150 - France, that is to say, if the French Government has a will of its own. ' Upon such a subject it is not for me to give an opinion suddenly. My opinion is that the Power which has Constantinople, and the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, ought to possess the mouth of the Danube; and that the sovereign of these two ought not to have the Crimea and the Russian empire. We must reconstruct a Greek empire, and give it Prince Frederick of Orange, or Prince Charles of Prussia; and no Power of Europe ought to...
Page 540 - Indies, as well as to those made to individuals, whether the contracts for such loans be made or carried into execution within or beyond the territories under the government of the East India Company : that the same restriction extends to loans made under a licence from the governments in India, pursuant to the 37th Geo.
Page 97 - I confess it makes me sick,' he wrote,* ' when I hear of the Emperor's desire for peace. If he desires peace, why does he not make it ? Can the Turks resist him for a moment ? He knows that they cannot. Why not state in conciliatory language his desire for peace, and reasonable terms to which the Porte can accede ? This would give him peace to-morrow. He is looking to conquest.