The Despatches of Earl Gower, English Ambassador at Paris from June 1790 to August 1792: To which are Added the Despatches of Mr. Lindsay and Mr. Monro, and the Diary of Viscount Palmerston in France During July and August 1791, Now Published for the First Time |
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... German than from English writers . Sybel was the first to place the attitude of England towards the Revolution in its true light , Le Bon has narrated the curious history of the negotiations between Pitt and the émigrés b2.
... German than from English writers . Sybel was the first to place the attitude of England towards the Revolution in its true light , Le Bon has narrated the curious history of the negotiations between Pitt and the émigrés b2.
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... England in Feb. 1793 Paris was hermetically sealed . No effort on the part of our ministry or of Lord Elgin , our representative in Flanders , could penetrate the obscu- rity ; all who were suspected of giving information were put in ...
... England in Feb. 1793 Paris was hermetically sealed . No effort on the part of our ministry or of Lord Elgin , our representative in Flanders , could penetrate the obscu- rity ; all who were suspected of giving information were put in ...
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... England and Spain , and France , if she was to preserve her honour and execute engage- ments made only thirty years before , needed to speak in Europe with a decisive voice . Into this tumult of interests Lord Gower found himself ...
... England and Spain , and France , if she was to preserve her honour and execute engage- ments made only thirty years before , needed to speak in Europe with a decisive voice . Into this tumult of interests Lord Gower found himself ...
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... England towards France , but Pitt was able to engage in a more direct negotiation with the leading members of the Assembly . Hugh Elliot , a diplomatist of great , though erratic genius , had been a friend of Mirabeau from boyhood ...
... England towards France , but Pitt was able to engage in a more direct negotiation with the leading members of the Assembly . Hugh Elliot , a diplomatist of great , though erratic genius , had been a friend of Mirabeau from boyhood ...
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... England with a view of setting fire to the fleet or dockyards . The correspondence of this time is full of evidence that France was a nest of what would now be called dynamiters . Their operations were principally conducted against ...
... England with a view of setting fire to the fleet or dockyards . The correspondence of this time is full of evidence that France was a nest of what would now be called dynamiters . Their operations were principally conducted against ...
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