Cobbett's Political Register VOL.XXI From January to June,1812 |
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... England . empty.What will the state of the Now , what is the picture ? A war country be , then , at the end of the ... England . It has banished gold from cir - produced all the evil effects we witness . culation . It has ruined commerce ...
... England . empty.What will the state of the Now , what is the picture ? A war country be , then , at the end of the ... England . It has banished gold from cir - produced all the evil effects we witness . culation . It has ruined commerce ...
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... England and Spain the nity , and these qualities united are very most strict and friendly alliance ; that rarely to be met in any writing whatever . Spain is contending for her liberties and The question relating to the Floridas ...
... England and Spain the nity , and these qualities united are very most strict and friendly alliance ; that rarely to be met in any writing whatever . Spain is contending for her liberties and The question relating to the Floridas ...
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... England would have taken possession of it , if Napoleon became wholly master of old Spain . Thus , end in what way it would , the struggle in Old Spain threaten- ed the American States with a dangerous neighbour , and which neighbour ...
... England would have taken possession of it , if Napoleon became wholly master of old Spain . Thus , end in what way it would , the struggle in Old Spain threaten- ed the American States with a dangerous neighbour , and which neighbour ...
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... England . I need not analyse it to you . upon . The barriers , erected by the pride - I am still so weak as to find it conve- and circumstance of family worth and by nient to make this letter a short one : and the circles of hospitality ...
... England . I need not analyse it to you . upon . The barriers , erected by the pride - I am still so weak as to find it conve- and circumstance of family worth and by nient to make this letter a short one : and the circles of hospitality ...
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... England . It belongs to the re- " is no foundation whatever for the asser . presentatives of the people to declare war " tion so insolently made by the Americans , in America , because the people there " that the British Government ...
... England . It belongs to the re- " is no foundation whatever for the asser . presentatives of the people to declare war " tion so insolently made by the Americans , in America , because the people there " that the British Government ...
Common terms and phrases
Address America amongst answer appears arms army Bellingham Britain British Buonaparté called Catholics cause COBBETT command conduct consequence constitution coun Court declared Decrees defence duty effect enemy England English fact favour feel flogging force foreign France French Gentlemen German give Government Hanoverian hear honour hope House of Commons John Bellingham judge justice King letter liberty Lieut London Lord Castlereagh Lord Liverpool Lord Wellesley Lordship Magistrates Majesty Majesty's Majesty's Government means measures ment military Militia Minister Napoleon nation never news-papers object observed occasion officers opinion Orders in Council paper Parliament party peace Perceval persons present Prince Regent Princess Princess of Wales principles prisoners punishment reader reason received reform regiment repeal riots Royal Highness shew Sir Francis Burdett soldiers Spain speech suffered suppose sure taken thing tion told troops United Whigs whole wish
Popular passages
Page 23 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 369 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are bom of English parents), shall be capable to be of the Privy Council, or a member of either House of Parliament...
Page 221 - Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged without a regular investigation before a competent tribunal, would imperiously demand the fairest trial where the sacred rights of persons were at issue. In place of such a trial these rights are subjected to the will of every petty commander.
Page 223 - It has become, indeed, sufficiently certain that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain; not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies ; but as interfering with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation.
Page 223 - particular ports must be actually invested, and previous warning given to vessels bound to them not to enter.
Page 257 - And the right honourable the lords commissioners of his majesty's Treasury, the lords commissioners of the Admiralty, and the lord warden of the Cinque Ports, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
Page 221 - ... dear to them ; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation, and exposed, under the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy instruments of taking away those of their own brethren.
Page 223 - Abandoning still more all respect for the neutral rights of the United States, and for its own consistency, the British Government now demands as prerequisites to a repeal of its Orders, as they relate to the United...
Page 305 - ... no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, — except such as are born of English parents), shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament, or to enjoy any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, from the crown, to himself, or to any other or others in trust for him.
Page 221 - British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.