Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 4R. Bagshaw, 1803 - Great Britain |
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... conduct of their rulers . In time of war , nothing can be of greater moment to the internal peace and security of the nation . We may be unavoidably forced to draw the sword ' ; bot if there is the least ground to suppose , that ...
... conduct of their rulers . In time of war , nothing can be of greater moment to the internal peace and security of the nation . We may be unavoidably forced to draw the sword ' ; bot if there is the least ground to suppose , that ...
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... conduct the world ever witnessed . I will not hold up to view the speckled features of his re - guished from his infernal counsellors , had ligious transformations , from the adoration of the naked Goddess of Liberty , and the soothing ...
... conduct the world ever witnessed . I will not hold up to view the speckled features of his re - guished from his infernal counsellors , had ligious transformations , from the adoration of the naked Goddess of Liberty , and the soothing ...
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... conduct , since the sign- ing of that treaty , has been villainous , that of our ministers has not been dignified and firm . They seemed always to think they were in the wrong . Their blundering po- litics needed perpetual corrections ...
... conduct , since the sign- ing of that treaty , has been villainous , that of our ministers has not been dignified and firm . They seemed always to think they were in the wrong . Their blundering po- litics needed perpetual corrections ...
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... conduct of the French Government . The Treaty of Amiens was scarcely signed , when the English Government already meditated a breach of it . The conduct which it has adopted since that epoch , clearly announces that intention . It ...
... conduct of the French Government . The Treaty of Amiens was scarcely signed , when the English Government already meditated a breach of it . The conduct which it has adopted since that epoch , clearly announces that intention . It ...
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... conduct when so loudly called for ? Let us remember that Bantry Bay is more than 100 leagues distant from Brest ; Tou- lon from Brest about 600 ; and Egypt from Toulon upwards of 500 ! yet that all these distances were passed and ...
... conduct when so loudly called for ? Let us remember that Bantry Bay is more than 100 leagues distant from Brest ; Tou- lon from Brest about 600 ; and Egypt from Toulon upwards of 500 ! yet that all these distances were passed and ...
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Page 491 - ... come tell us your reason; What sayest thou to this ? Poins. Come, your reason, Jack, your reason. Fal. What, upon compulsion? No; were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Page 883 - THE President of the United States of America, and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, desiring to remove all source of misunderstanding relative to objects of discussion...
Page 389 - They, by a strange frenzy driven, fight for power, for plunder, and extended rule : we, for our country, our altars, and our homes. They follow an adventurer whom they fear, and obey a power which they hate : we serve a monarch whom we love — a God whom we adore.
Page 881 - Spain or her colonies, shall be admitted during the space of twelve years in the port of New Orleans, and in all other legal ports of entry within the ceded territory, in the same manner as the ships of the United States...
Page 887 - Whilst the property and sovereignty of the Mississippi and its waters secure an independent outlet for the produce of the Western States and an uncontrolled navigation through their whole course, free from collision with other powers and the dangers to our peace from that source, the fertility of the...
Page 271 - ... ships, vessels and goods, that are or shall be taken, and to hear and determine the same ; and, according to the course of Admiralty, and the law of nations...
Page 881 - ... that the French ships coming directly from France or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce and manufactures of France or her said colonies, and the ships of Spain coming directly from Spain or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce or manufactures of Spain or her colonies, shall be admitted during the space of twelve years in the...
Page 389 - The throne we honour is the people's choice ; the laws we reverence are our brave fathers' legacy ; the faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind, and die with hope of bliss beyond the grave. Tell your invaders this, and tell them, too, we seek no change : and, least of all, such change as they would bring us.
Page 883 - America,] by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said States, Robert R. Livingston, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the said States, near the Government of the French Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, Citizen Francis Barbe...
Page 881 - ARTICLE II. In the cession made by the preceding article are included the adjacent islands belonging to Louisiana, all public lots and squares, vacant lands, and all public buildings, fortifications, barracks, and other edifices which are not private property.