Remarks on a Late Publication, Styled The History of the Politics of Great Britain & France &c. &cG.G. and J. Robinson, 1800 - 133 pages |
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Page 41 - Auguft, the King has thought proper ..to fufpend all official communication with France, You are yourfelf no otherwife accredited to the King, than in the name of his Moft Chriftian Majefty.
Page 14 - Majefty: the balance of Europe, the independence of the different powers, the general peace, every confideration which at all times has fixed the attention of the Englifh.
Page 47 - Europe, established by solemn treaties and guaranteed by the consent of all the powers. This government, adhering to the maxims which it has followed for more than a century, will also never see with indifference that France shall make herself, either directly or indirectly, sovereign of the Low Countries, or general arbitress of the rights and liberties of Europe.
Page 45 - Since the same declaration was made, the convention has thought itself authorized to annul the rights of the republic, exercised within the limits of its own territory, and enjoyed by virtue of the same treaties by which her independence is secured.
Page 69 - Negotiation upon this fubjeft; which is put off, as well as the evacuation of the Low Countries by the French Armies, to the indefinite term, not only of the conclufion of the war, but likewife of the confolidation of what is called, the liberty of the Belgians.
Page 42 - Minifters, in the quality and under the form ftateel in your note. But obferving that you have entered into explanations of fome of the circumftances which have given to England...
Page 60 - Catholic king from treating with him on a convention of neutrality, ihe ratification of which is to be exchanged at Paris between the minifter for foreign affairs and the charge des affaires of Spain. We will even add, that the principal minifter of his Catholic...
Page 46 - France wiflies to eftablifh by this proceeding, aud to thofe confequences which would naturally refult from them, and that not only thofe principles and thofe confequences will never be admitted by England, but that fhe is, and ever will be ready, to oppofe them with all her force. France can have no right to annul the...
Page 66 - Council de'clares, then, not that it may appear to yield to fome expreffions of threatening language, but only to. render homage to truth, that the French Republic does not mean to eftablifh itfelf an univerfal ' arbiter of the Treaties which bind nations together.
Page 61 - ... of which depends the tranquillity of two great nations, they have fent to Citizen Chauvelin credential letters, which will give him the means of treating according to all the feverity of diplomatic forms. <• *' To proceed, now, to the three points, which can alone form an...