The Senator; or, Clarendon's parliamentary chronicle, Volumen18 |
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... agreed to by the House . The following are the sums voted : 796 19 6 for
money for Sir John Farhill , Secretary to the Commissioners for the reduction of
the National Debt . 110 o o to the Clerk for American Claims . 31 , 000 0 o for
French ...
... agreed to by the House . The following are the sums voted : 796 19 6 for
money for Sir John Farhill , Secretary to the Commissioners for the reduction of
the National Debt . 110 o o to the Clerk for American Claims . 31 , 000 0 o for
French ...
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... were in the hands of men who amalled immenfe fortunes at the expence of the
country . The French , who adhered to our cause , were actuated by motives of
intereft alone , and by the advantages which they derived from its service . But the
...
... were in the hands of men who amalled immenfe fortunes at the expence of the
country . The French , who adhered to our cause , were actuated by motives of
intereft alone , and by the advantages which they derived from its service . But the
...
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The French not only abandoved their owi . Inands to insurrection , but promoted it
, and endeavoured to make the Negroes in all parts , and in our own Islands ,
instruments to avenge them on this country . He put it to the Honourable ...
The French not only abandoved their owi . Inands to insurrection , but promoted it
, and endeavoured to make the Negroes in all parts , and in our own Islands ,
instruments to avenge them on this country . He put it to the Honourable ...
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... that in proportion as the French were successful , Ministers changed their
ground . Then they said that we must pursue the war , until there should be
citablished in France , a Government capable of maintaining the accustomed
relations of ...
... that in proportion as the French were successful , Ministers changed their
ground . Then they said that we must pursue the war , until there should be
citablished in France , a Government capable of maintaining the accustomed
relations of ...
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They had been advised , by Gentremen near to him , to seize the opportunity
when the opening of the Scheldt was the piet nce of offering terms , as soon as
the French were driven from Holland within their own territories . The fame advice
had ...
They had been advised , by Gentremen near to him , to seize the opportunity
when the opening of the Scheldt was the piet nce of offering terms , as soon as
the French were driven from Holland within their own territories . The fame advice
had ...
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Página xl - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance...
Página xxxii - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Página xli - The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me, a predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.
Página xxxiii - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Página xli - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another: that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon, real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which...
Página xxxvii - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Página xli - The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations.
Página xl - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página xli - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world.
Página xxxv - States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them, of a policy in the general government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi...