Cobbett's Political Register VOL.XXI From January to June,1812 |
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Page 13
... justice of the case was more than once lost in feel - complaint about the Floridas appears to ing for my country . The contrast is , in have been looked upon as a sort of set - off all respects , so great , that no comparison or make ...
... justice of the case was more than once lost in feel - complaint about the Floridas appears to ing for my country . The contrast is , in have been looked upon as a sort of set - off all respects , so great , that no comparison or make ...
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... justice to the president of the council of prizes . To this latter , Sir , I would wish particularly to invite your attention : the date is the 25th Dec. the authority it comes from most unquestionable , and you will there find , Sir ...
... justice to the president of the council of prizes . To this latter , Sir , I would wish particularly to invite your attention : the date is the 25th Dec. the authority it comes from most unquestionable , and you will there find , Sir ...
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... Justice to the President of the council of prizes of the 25th of that month . There is nothing in the first of these papers incompatible with the revo- cation of the Decrees , in respect to the United States . It is distinctly declared ...
... Justice to the President of the council of prizes of the 25th of that month . There is nothing in the first of these papers incompatible with the revo- cation of the Decrees , in respect to the United States . It is distinctly declared ...
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... justice to the consummate judgment and commanded by his Royal Highness the skill displayed by General Lord Viscount Prince Regent to express to you the deep Wellington , in the direction of the cam . sorrow which he feels in announcing ...
... justice to the consummate judgment and commanded by his Royal Highness the skill displayed by General Lord Viscount Prince Regent to express to you the deep Wellington , in the direction of the cam . sorrow which he feels in announcing ...
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... justice , to the common sense and com- mon feeling of men , the natural results have ensued . In those distant regions , where ignorance and feebleness have ren- dered the people an easy prey to succes- ' sive usurpations , we have ...
... justice , to the common sense and com- mon feeling of men , the natural results have ensued . In those distant regions , where ignorance and feebleness have ren- dered the people an easy prey to succes- ' sive usurpations , we have ...
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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.