The Life and Administration of Robert Banks, Second Earl of Liverpool, K. G., Late First Lord of the Treasury: Comp. from Original Documents, Volumen3Macmillan and Company, 1868 |
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Página 426 - I pretend, after the best consideration I have been able to give to the subject, to hold an opinion far from doubt.
Página 83 - ... any wish to shrink from inquiry, but would only be deemed to afford a renewed proof of the desire which her majesty has been graciously pleased to express, to submit her own wishes to the authority of parliament...
Página 408 - His Majesty leaves no effort unexhausted to awaken the Spanish Government to the dangerous consequences of this apparent connivance. " His Majesty makes this communication to the House of Commons with the full and entire confidence, that his faithful Commons will afford to His Majesty their cordial concurrence and support in maintaining the faith of treaties, and in securing against foreign hostility the safety and independence of the kingdom of Portugal, the oldest ally of Great Britain.
Página 98 - Against this I protest, and upon the following grounds. The injustice of refusing me a clear and distinct charge, of refusing me the names of the witnesses, of refusing me the names of the places where the alleged acts have been committed ; these are sufficiently flagrant and revolting ; but it is against the constitution of the court itself that I particularly object, and against that I most solemnly protest.
Página 99 - ... the decision. That your Majesty's ministers would advise these measures, if found necessary to render their prosecution successful, there can be very little doubt, seeing that they have hitherto stopped at nothing, however unjust or odious. To regard such a body as a court of justice would be to calumniate that sacred name ; and for me to suppress an...
Página 218 - Faithful to the principles which his Majesty has promulgated to the world, as constituting the rule of his conduct, his Majesty declined being a party to any proceedings at Verona, which could be deemed an interference in the internal concerns of Spain on the part of Foreign Powers.
Página 96 - ... faithful, and brave people, your Royal Father would have perished at the head of that people. When to calumniate, revile, and betray me, became the sure path to honour and riches, it would have been strange indeed if calumniators, revilers, and traitors, had not abounded. Your Court became much less a scene of polished manners and refined intercourse than of low intrigue and scurrility. — Spies, Bacchanalian tale-bearers, and foul conspirators, swarmed in those places which had before been...
Página 100 - ... and I will not, except compelled by actual force, submit to any sentence which shall not be pronounced by a Court of Justice. I have now frankly laid before your Majesty a statement of my wrongs, and a declaration of my views and intentions.
Página 84 - ... had been already gained by her Majesty. In the first place, let it be observed, that it was now explicitly acknowledged, that the only basis on which her Majesty could be called upon to treat, was that high ground of her unimpeachable, undisputed, and unsuspected title of Queen of this realm. This point alone she had made a fine qua non, and she had obtained it before the conference was opened.
Página 96 - ... indulgence. To see my daughter, to fold her in my arms, to mingle my tears with hers, to receive her cheering caresses, and to hear from her lips assurances of never-ceasing love ;—thus to be comforted consoled, upheld, and blessed, was too much to be allowed me. Even on the slave mart the cries of' Oh ! my ' mother, my mother!'