Colonel St. Paul of Ewart, Soldier and Diplomat, Том 1

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St. Catherine Press, 1911

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Стр. 81 - Majesty the several rates and duties hereinafter mentioned; and do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and...
Стр. clxv - His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court.
Стр. cxl - ... which were to perfect the vast host in embarking and disembarking with order and rapidity, see the white cliffs fringing the only country that to the last defied their arms. Far away, Cornwallis off Brest, Collingwood off Rochefort, Pellew off Ferrol, were battling the wild gales of the Bay of Biscay, in that tremendous and sustained vigilance which reached its utmost tension in the years preceding Trafalgar, concerning which Collingwood wrote that admirals need to be made of iron, but which...
Стр. 21 - I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, your Lordship's " Most obedient and obliged servant,
Стр. 212 - Majefty cedes, in full right, and guaranties to the King of Great Britain, the river Senegal, with the forts and factories of St. Lewis, Podor, and Galam ; and with all the rights and dependencies of the faid river Senegal.
Стр. 274 - King fhall take care that all the fortifications of the city of Dunkirk be razed, that the harbour be filled up, and that the...
Стр. 81 - The proper estimates for the ensuing year shall bo laid before you ; and whatever supplies you may grant shall, on my part, be managed with the strictest economy, and applied with the utmost fidelity. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I cannot but feel the most real concern that the produce of the late harvest has not given us the relief which we had hoped for, in respect to the dearness of corn.
Стр. 180 - I demand of your lordship, the justice of believing me to be with the greatest respect, My Lord, Your lordship's most obedient, and most obliged humble servant, JON. SWIFT.
Стр. cxl - Meanwhile that period of waiting from May, 1803, to August, 1805, when the tangled net of naval and military movements began to unravel, was a striking and wonderful pause in the world's history. On the heights above Boulogne, and along the narrow strip of beach from...
Стр. 247 - I am, with great truth and regard, Sir, Your most obedient, humble Servant, LANSDOWNE. LETTER XLIII. FROM SIR GILBERT ELLIOT.1 Dear Sir, Park Street, Feb.

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