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Addington advance alliance allies already arms army attack attempt Austria battle became Bill Bonaparte brought Cabinet capture carried Catholic character Charles chief chiefly coalition command complete conduct Crown danger declared defeated demanded determined difficulty Duke Dupleix Dutch Emperor enemy England English Europe excited expedition favour feeling fleet force foreign France French French Revolution friends Government Grenville hands Holland hope House House of Lords India influence insurrection intrusted Ireland Irish Jacobites joined King King's Lord Lord Castlereagh Lord Sidmouth Mahratta March Marlborough Massena measures ment minister ministry Napoleon nation necessary negotiations once opposition Parliament party passed peace Pitt Pitt's political Portugal position Prince Protestant Queen reform refused regarded rendered resign retreat Revolution Russia secure seemed sent ships Soult Spain Spanish succeeded success tion Tory trade treaty troops United Irishmen victory Walpole Wellington Whig party Whigs whole withdraw
Popular passages
Page 1043 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 1353 - An Act to subject certain Publications to the Duties of Stamps upon Newspapers, and to make other Regulations for restraining the Abuses arising from the Publication of Blasphemous and Seditious Libels...
Page 1264 - That it is contrary to the. first duties of the confidential servants of the Crown to restrain themselves by any pledge, expressed or implied, from offering to the King any advice which the course of circumstances may render necessary for the welfare and security of any part of his Majesty's extensive empire.
Page 1223 - Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson has been commanded to spare Denmark, when she no longer resists. The line of defence which covered her shores has struck to the British flag: but if the firing is continued on the part of Denmark, he must set on fire all the prizes that he has taken, without having the power of saving the men who have so nobly defended them. The brave Danes are the brothers, and should never be the enemies, of the English.
Page 1377 - ... the stupid old Tory party, who bawl out the memory and praises of Pitt, while they are opposing all the measures and principles which he held most important ; it is by these that the progress of the Government in every improvement which they are attempting is thwarted and impeded. On the Catholic question, on the principles of commerce, on the Corn Laws, on the settlement of the currency, on the laws regulating the trade in money, on colonial slavery, on the Game Laws, which are intimately connected...
Page 1376 - Majesty's confidential servants came to a decision. On Sunday that decision received the sanction of His Majesty. On Monday it was communicated to both Houses of Parliament, and this day, Sir, at the hour in which I have the honour of addressing you, the troops are on their march for embarkation.
Page 976 - I, by twenty sail attended, Did this Spanish town affright; Nothing then its wealth defended But my orders not to fight. Oh! that in this rolling ocean I had cast them with disdain, And obeyed my heart's warm motion To have quelled the pride of Spain!
Page 1378 - I can forgive old women like the Chancellor, spoonies like Liverpool, ignoramuses like Westmoreland, old stumped-up Tories like Bathurst ; but how such a man as Peel, liberal, enlightened, and fresh-minded, should find himself running in such a pack is hardly intelligible.
Page 1123 - Dec. 1st, 1783. To begin with stating to His Majesty our sentiments upon the extent of the Bill, viz. : We profess to wish to know whether this Bill appear to His Majesty in this light : a plan to take more than half the royal power, and by that means disable [the King] for the rest of the reign.