Brief Memoirs of the Right Honourable Henry Addington's Administration: Through the First Fifteen Months from Its Commencement ... |
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Page 117 - The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shalt not covet...
Page 161 - Ratifications thereof have been duly exchanged : In Conformity thereunto, We have thought fit hereby to command that the same be published throughout all Our Dominions : And We do declare to all our loving Subjects Our Will and Pleasure, that the said Treaty of Peace and Friendship be observed inviolably as well by Sea as Land, and in all Places whatsoever...
Page 183 - XIX The present definitive treaty of Peace is declared common to the sublime Ottoman Porte, the ally, of his Britannic majesty; and the sublime Porte shall be invited to transmit its act of accession as soon as possible.
Page 72 - Robespierre,f the leading members of that society; and was by them initiated into the popular doctrine of equality, and the rights of man. Here it was that he first learnt the miseries of his condition ; the cruel wrongs and contumelies to which he and all his mulatto brethren were exposed in the West Indies, and the monstrous injustice and absurdity of that prejudice,
Page 247 - ... of great duties we have brought proportionate exertions. And we now indulge the flattering hope, that we may fafely apply...
Page 176 - The forces of his Britannic majesty shall evacuate the island, and its dependencies, within three months from the exchange of the ratifications, or sooner if possible.
Page 169 - Extraordinary of the said United States, near the Government of the French Republic; and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, has named, as Plenipotentiary...
Page 169 - The First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, and the President of the United States of America, equally animated with a desire to put an end to the differences which have...
Page 250 - The same sense of public duty, the same solicitude for the welfare of your country, will now, in your individual characters, induce you to encourage, by all the means in your power, the cultivation and improvement of the advantages of peace. " My endeavours will never be wanting to preserve the blessings by which we are so eminently distinguished, and to prove that the prosperity and happiness of all classes of my faithful subjects are the objects which are always the nearest to my heart.
Page 223 - January, 1786, was 9,297,000?. before any fund was created applicable to the reduction of the debt, and on the 5th January, 1793, was 10,325,000/.