Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London, Comprising Incidents Official and Personal from 1819-1825: Including Negotiations on the Oregon Question, and Other Unsettled Questions Between the United States and Great BritainLea & Blanchard, 1845 - 640 páginas |
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... sides of the water , I should consider myself truly fortunate . I desire to pour oil on angry waves which seem beginning to heave ; and however little may be in my power in this re- spect , the motive has strengthened me in the task ...
... sides of the water , I should consider myself truly fortunate . I desire to pour oil on angry waves which seem beginning to heave ; and however little may be in my power in this re- spect , the motive has strengthened me in the task ...
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... side ; which , though rarely held up , may also be true . Nor will party spirit be found in this volume any more than in the former ; the work being written with different objects and feelings . Having quoted from the London Quarterly ...
... side ; which , though rarely held up , may also be true . Nor will party spirit be found in this volume any more than in the former ; the work being written with different objects and feelings . Having quoted from the London Quarterly ...
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... side of such articles as naval stores , ready built vessels , furniture , timber and fish - without enumerating others . The whole tone of his conversation was conciliatory , and he said in conclusion that the frank disclosure I had ...
... side of such articles as naval stores , ready built vessels , furniture , timber and fish - without enumerating others . The whole tone of his conversation was conciliatory , and he said in conclusion that the frank disclosure I had ...
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... sides during a conversation which lasted about an hour . I mixed with the expression of my sentiments , all the conciliation towards England proper in itself , which their own manner inspired . A few days before these gentlemen called ...
... sides during a conversation which lasted about an hour . I mixed with the expression of my sentiments , all the conciliation towards England proper in itself , which their own manner inspired . A few days before these gentlemen called ...
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... There were parts of the convention not relished on our side ; and those who were interested in the British North American Fisheries , clamored exceedingly at the article about the fisheries , al- leging 58 [ 1819 . RESIDENCE AT THE.
... There were parts of the convention not relished on our side ; and those who were interested in the British North American Fisheries , clamored exceedingly at the article about the fisheries , al- leging 58 [ 1819 . RESIDENCE AT THE.
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Página 456 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Página 558 - And if the said commissioners shall agree in their decision, both parties shall consider such decision as final and conclusive. It is further agreed, that in the event of the two commissioners differing upon all or any of the matters so referred to them, or in the event of both or either of the said commissioners refusing, or declining. or wilfully omitting, to act as...
Página 24 - And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother...
Página 411 - Spain, or which meditates the acquisition of any part of them to itself, by cession or by conquest, such a declaration on the part of your government and ours would be at once the most effectual and the least offensive mode of intimating our joint disapprobation of such projects. It would at the same time put an end to all the jealousies of Spain with respect to her remaining colonies, and to the agitation which prevails in those colonies, an agitation which it would be but humane to allay, being...
Página 558 - States, stating in detail the points on which they differ, and the grounds upon which their respective opinions have been formed, or the grounds upon which they, or either of them, have so refused, declined, or omitted to act. And His Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United States hereby agree to refer the report or reports of the said Commissioners to some friendly sovereign or State, to be then named for that purpose...