The History of Great Britain from the Death of George II. to the Coronation of George IV.: Designed as a Continuation of Hume and Smollett |
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... Squadron at Manilla - The Town taken by Storm , but saved from a justly merited Pil- lage - The Galleon from Manilla to Acapulco taken - The only exception to the Universal Success of the British Arms , the Failure of a private ...
... Squadron at Manilla - The Town taken by Storm , but saved from a justly merited Pil- lage - The Galleon from Manilla to Acapulco taken - The only exception to the Universal Success of the British Arms , the Failure of a private ...
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... squadron sails for America - Termination of the Session - Trans actions of the Royal Commissioners in Ameri- ca - Arrival of D'Estaing - Philadelphia eva- cuated - Ambassador from France to Ameri- ca - Attempt on Rhode - Island ...
... squadron sails for America - Termination of the Session - Trans actions of the Royal Commissioners in Ameri- ca - Arrival of D'Estaing - Philadelphia eva- cuated - Ambassador from France to Ameri- ca - Attempt on Rhode - Island ...
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... Squadron taken - Capture of Mr. Laurens- Declaration of War - Affairs of East Indies- Mr. Cornwall chosen Speaker - Dutch War -India affairs - Burke's Reform Bill - Petition of Delegates from Counties - Bill to repeal the Marriage Act ...
... Squadron taken - Capture of Mr. Laurens- Declaration of War - Affairs of East Indies- Mr. Cornwall chosen Speaker - Dutch War -India affairs - Burke's Reform Bill - Petition of Delegates from Counties - Bill to repeal the Marriage Act ...
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... Squadron in Saldanha Bay - Evacua- tion of Corsica by the British - Invasion of Ireland attempted by the French - Naval Operations - Differences between France and America - Spain and Holland declare War against Great Britain - State of ...
... Squadron in Saldanha Bay - Evacua- tion of Corsica by the British - Invasion of Ireland attempted by the French - Naval Operations - Differences between France and America - Spain and Holland declare War against Great Britain - State of ...
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... squadrons did not remain idle : rear - admiral Holmes , who had the command on the former station , planned some cruises with judgment and success . The squadron off the Leeward Islands , under the direction of com- modore Sir James ...
... squadrons did not remain idle : rear - admiral Holmes , who had the command on the former station , planned some cruises with judgment and success . The squadron off the Leeward Islands , under the direction of com- modore Sir James ...
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Page 58 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to...
Page 125 - I again implore those holy prelates of our religion to do away these iniquities from among us. Let them perform a lustration; let them purify this House, and this country, from this sin. My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Page 131 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 49 - A series of inconsistent measures has alienated the colonies from their duty as subjects and from their natural affection to their common country. When Mr. Grenville was placed at the head of the treasury, he felt the impossibility of Great Britain's supporting such an establishment as her former successes had made indispensable, and, at the same time, of giving any sensible relief to foreign trade and to the weight of the public debt. He thought it equitable that those parts of the empire which...
Page 219 - I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever, and nations panting for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it ; I have lived to see thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible voice ; their king led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch surrendering himself to his subjects.
Page 55 - we may bind their trade, confine their >,n*nufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 89 - Attached to your Majesty's person, family and government with all the devotion that principle and affection can inspire, connected with Great Britain by the strongest ties that can unite societies, and deploring every event that tends in any degree to weaken them, we solemnly assure your Majesty, that we not only most ardently desire the former harmony between her and these colonies may be restored...
Page 121 - This article is inadmissible in every extremity ; sooner than this army will consent to ground their arms in their encampment, they will rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter.
Page 104 - Three days after this message was received, Sullivan was requested to inform Lord Howe, " That congress being the representatives of the free and independent States of America, they cannot with propriety send any of their members to confer with his lordship in their private characters ; but that, ever desirous of establishing peace on reasonable terms, they will send a committee of their body to know whether he has any authority to treat with persons authorized by congress for...
Page 125 - Lordship contended that, besides its policy and necessity, the measure was also allowable on principle; for that "it was perfectly justifiable to use all the means that God and nature put into our hands!