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Page 23 - That from and after the time that the further limitation by this act shall take effect, all matters and things relating to the well governing of this kingdom, which are properly cognizable in the privy council by the laws and customs of this realm, shall be transacted there, and all resolutions taken thereupon shall be signed by such of the privy council as shall advise and consent to the same.
Page 5 - We must establish wharves and docks in the Euxine, and by degrees make ourselves masters of that sea as well as of the Baltic, which is a doubly important element in the success of our plan. We must hasten the downfall of Persia, push on to the Persian Gulf, if possible re-establish the ancient commercial intercourse with the Levant through Syria, and force our way into the Indies, which are the storehouses of the world...
Page 21 - ... to obtain these major results by the sacrifice of a blockade of no relative importance. We shall add that, in meditating this language of the Duke of Wellington and of Lord Aberdeen, it reveals the apprehension of the embarrassments which would be raised by any parliamentary discussion, and the not less real fear of seriously indisposing us. The Prime Minister made the amende honorable as soon as he perceived that his words and his bravadoes would only serve to trouble that peace which is necessary...
Page 18 - We waited his arrival with the greatest impatience, as, at the approach of the moment when the Session of Parliament was to close, the English Ministry manifested a daily increasing desire to know if the Protocol of the 21st April would obtain the approbation of the Emperor, and if His Imperial Majesty would consent to modify the extension which Rear Admiral Ricord has just given, to the blockade of the Dardanelles.
Page 7 - That he hath traitorously encroached to himself regal power, by treating in matters of peace and war with foreign princes and ambassadors, and giving instructions to his Majesty's ambassadors abroad, without communicating the same to the Secretaries of State and the rest of his Majesty's Council...
Page 19 - We added, that such means as these, united with unjust suspicions, would lead to incalculable consequences ! "A long pause followed this declaration, which the Marshal did not appear to have foreseen. He recovered himself at last, and, changing his tone and...
Page 5 - Therefore, we must fan continual wars, sometimes with Turkey, sometimes with Persia ; create dockyards and emporiums on the Black Sea ; take possession, little by little of that sea, as well as of the Baltic, which is a point doubly necessary for the success of the plan...
Page 5 - We must principally seek the alliance of England for commerce, because it is the power most in want of us for its navy, and which can be the most useful in the development of ours. We must exchange wood and other productions for her gold, and keep up continual relations among her traders and seamen and ours. We must advance as much as possible toward Constantinople and India. Whoever shall reign there will be the true master of the world. Therefore, we must fan continental wars, sometimes with Turkey,...
Page 22 - ... his affairs, it was in his power to dissolve them, and constitute another of twenty, of ten, or of five, or any number he pleased, and to alter them again when he would; but to make counsellors that should not counsel, I doubted whether it were in his Majesty's power or no, because it implied a contradiction...
Page 24 - As to the setting of the great seal of England to foreign alliances, the lord chancellor, or lord keeper for the time being, has a plain rule to follow ; that is, humbly to inform the king that...