Annual Register, Volume 88Edmund Burke 1847 - History |
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... vernment - Causes of that Event - Failure of the Potato Crop - Lord John Russell is sent for by the Queen - Unsuccessful Attempt of that Nobleman to form a Cabinet - Sir R. Peel returns to Office in the new character of an Opponent to ...
... vernment - Causes of that Event - Failure of the Potato Crop - Lord John Russell is sent for by the Queen - Unsuccessful Attempt of that Nobleman to form a Cabinet - Sir R. Peel returns to Office in the new character of an Opponent to ...
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... vernment - Causes of that Event — Failure of the Potato Crop - Lord John Russell is sent for by the Queen - Unsuccessful Attempt of that Nobleman to form a Cabinet - Sir R. Peel returns to Office in the new character of an Opponent to ...
... vernment - Causes of that Event — Failure of the Potato Crop - Lord John Russell is sent for by the Queen - Unsuccessful Attempt of that Nobleman to form a Cabinet - Sir R. Peel returns to Office in the new character of an Opponent to ...
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... vernment - Manifesto issued by it - Decree against the Liberty of the Press -Ministerial difficulties , and resignation of General Narvaez - Formation of the Isturitz Cabinet - Narvaez is obliged to leave Spain - Insurrection in Galicia ...
... vernment - Manifesto issued by it - Decree against the Liberty of the Press -Ministerial difficulties , and resignation of General Narvaez - Formation of the Isturitz Cabinet - Narvaez is obliged to leave Spain - Insurrection in Galicia ...
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... vernment . The commission was promptly undertaken by that no- bleman , but it was not long before it was understood that serious dif- ficulties impeded the new arrange- ments . Dissensions and jealousies were supposed to exist among the ...
... vernment . The commission was promptly undertaken by that no- bleman , but it was not long before it was understood that serious dif- ficulties impeded the new arrange- ments . Dissensions and jealousies were supposed to exist among the ...
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... vernment . Lord Malmesbury protested against the opinion , that the great mass of the people were in favour of a repeal of the Corn Laws . They had not changed their opi- nions because Cabinet Ministers had changed theirs , and it was ...
... vernment . Lord Malmesbury protested against the opinion , that the great mass of the people were in favour of a repeal of the Corn Laws . They had not changed their opi- nions because Cabinet Ministers had changed theirs , and it was ...
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Page 274 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean...
Page 261 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
Page 274 - River, the navigation of the said branch shall be free and open to the Hudson's Bay Company, and to all British subjects trading with the same, to the point where the said branch meets the main stream of the Columbia, and thence down the said main stream...
Page 273 - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Page 280 - We. therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude...
Page 339 - Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the...
Page 296 - Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage. Hundreds fell under this cannonade; hundreds upon hundreds were drowned in attempting the perilous passage.
Page 285 - I refer you to the report of the secretary of the navy, for a highly satisfactory account of the manner in which the concerns of that department have been conducted during the present year.
Page 296 - ... gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that victory finally declared for the British. The fire of the Sikhs...
Page 304 - Singh acknowledges the supremacy of the British Government, and will, in token of such supremacy, present annually to the British Government one horse, twelve perfect shawl goats of approved breed (six male, and six female), and three pairs of Kashmir shawls.