The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 8J. Ballantyne and Company, 1817 - Europe |
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Page viii
... Commis- sioners come to treat of Peace . Armistice refused . Conference at Haguenau . Fouché secretly embraces the Interest of the Bourbons . Advance of the Allied Armies . Wrede crosses the Rhine at Manheim , and 10 viii CONTENTS .
... Commis- sioners come to treat of Peace . Armistice refused . Conference at Haguenau . Fouché secretly embraces the Interest of the Bourbons . Advance of the Allied Armies . Wrede crosses the Rhine at Manheim , and 10 viii CONTENTS .
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... interest it was more than that of any other po . tentate , to keep Poland in a state of de- pendence ; but that monarch had ex- pressed himself willing that Poland should be restored ; that it should be again erected into a kingdom ...
... interest it was more than that of any other po . tentate , to keep Poland in a state of de- pendence ; but that monarch had ex- pressed himself willing that Poland should be restored ; that it should be again erected into a kingdom ...
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... interest of the national debt , amounting to 35,630,000l .; and 495,000 , the interest of the debt of the Emperor of Austria ; making in all 36 millions odds . Then there was the interest and sinking fund on 30 millions of outstanding ...
... interest of the national debt , amounting to 35,630,000l .; and 495,000 , the interest of the debt of the Emperor of Austria ; making in all 36 millions odds . Then there was the interest and sinking fund on 30 millions of outstanding ...
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... interest of the national debt . What gloomy predictions had on that occasion been made ! And in how few years , under Mr Pitt's admi- nistration , did the country regain a flourishing situation ! This afforded a hope , that the finances ...
... interest of the national debt . What gloomy predictions had on that occasion been made ! And in how few years , under Mr Pitt's admi- nistration , did the country regain a flourishing situation ! This afforded a hope , that the finances ...
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... interest due thereon . " This motion was agreed to . The right honourable gentleman next mo- ved , " That the sum of 12,500,000l . " be granted for the discharge of outstand- ing exchequer bills , created under the 54th of his majesty ...
... interest due thereon . " This motion was agreed to . The right honourable gentleman next mo- ved , " That the sum of 12,500,000l . " be granted for the discharge of outstand- ing exchequer bills , created under the 54th of his majesty ...
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Page cxlix - Ghent, that all territory, places, and possessions whatsoever, taken by either party from the other during the war, or which may be taken after the signing of this treaty, excepting only the islands hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored without delay, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any of the artillery or other public property originally captured in the said forts or places, and which shall remain therein upon the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, or any slaves...
Page cliv - Indians with whom they may be at war at the time of such ratification, and forthwith to restore to such tribes or nations respectively, all the possessions, rights and privileges which they may have enjoyed, or been entitled to in 1811, previous to such hostilities.
Page cli - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page cli - The said commissioners shall, by a declaration or report under their hands and seals, decide to which of the two contracting parties the several islands aforesaid do respectively belong, in conformity with the true intent of the said treaty of peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.
Page cliii - The said commissioners shall, by a report or declaration under their hands and seals, designate the boundary aforesaid, state their decision on the points thus referred to them, and particularize the latitude and longitude of the most north-western point of the Lake of the Woods, and of such other parts of the said boundary as they may deem proper.
Page xv - His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court.
Page clii - Commissioners differing, or both, or either of them, refusing, or declining, or wilfully omitting to act, such reports, declarations or statements, shall be made by them, or either of them, and such reference to a friendly...
Page clii - Andrews, in the province of New Brunswick, and shall have power to adjourn to such other place or places as they shall think fit.
Page cl - Lawrence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Page cliv - Majesty, and his subjects, upon the ratification of the present treaty being notified to such tribes or nations, and shall so desist accordingly.