Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K. G.: 1823-1825

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Pagina 351 - Sooner or later we shall probably have to contend with the combined maritime power of France and of the United States. The disposition of the new States is at present highly favourable to England. If we take...
Pagina 95 - But we conceive that the other belligerent would not have a right to consider such subscriptions as constituting an act of hostility on the part of the government, although they might afford just ground of complaint if carried to any considerable extent. . With respect to loans...
Pagina 340 - Lestrade, and I shall be very much obliged to you if you will let me hear of any fresh, developments of so singular a chain of events.
Pagina 16 - America,) or ship or lade any gun-powder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms or ammunition, on board any Ship or Vessel, in order to transporting the same into any such Ports or Places, within the Dominions of the King of Spain, or into any such Ports or Places on the Coast of Africa (except as above excepted,) or in the West Indies, or...
Pagina 351 - Dutch, whose rivalry in this respect occasioned several successive wars between the two countries. The views and policy of the North Americans seem mainly directed towards supplanting us in navigation in every quarter of the globe, but more particularly in the seas contiguous to America. Let us recollect that as their commercial marine is augmented their military marine must proportionately increase. And it cannot be doubted that if we provoke the New States of America to give a decided preference...
Pagina 351 - States over ourselves, the navigation of these extensive dominions will be lost to us, and it will, in a great measure, be transferred to our rivals. Let us remember, then, that peace, however desirable, and however cherished by us, cannot last for ever. Sooner or later we shall probably have to contend with the combined maritime power of France and of the United States. The disposition...
Pagina 55 - My Lords, having heard counsel in support of the claims of the Marquis of Hastings and the grand army, and of those of Sir Thomas Hislop and the army of the Deccan, and having maturely and deliberately weighed and considered all the documentary evidence laid before them in behalf of the several parties, and the arguments of the counsel, are of opinion that the most just and equitable principle of distribution will be to adhere, as nearly as the circumstances...
Pagina 16 - And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, the...
Pagina xviii - Spain, till they shall see a system prevail in that country, which shall afford some hope of the re-establishment and permanence of peace and good order. If all this be true — if it be true, besides, that the best chance that Spain has of coming to some arrangement with her colonies, is to be found in some settlement of her internal dissensions and distractions, it is impossible that any reasonable Spaniard can doubt that the time is come to effect those alterations which the common sense of mankind...
Pagina 16 - America (except as above excepted), without leave or permission in that behalf first obtained from his Majesty, or his Privy Council, upon pain of incurring and suffering the respective forfeitures and penalties inflicted by an Act, passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign o ' his Majesty King George the Second, intituled

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