SIRIO, Volume 148

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Page 406 - Parliament, and to subvert the true principles of the constitution ; it is His Majesty's pleasure that you should, immediately upon the receipt hereof, exert your utmost influence to defeat this flagitious attempt to disturb the public peace, by prevailing upon the Assembly of your province to take no notice of it, which will be treating it with the contempt it deserves.
Page 397 - Committee a Representation from the Lords Commis"sioners for Trade and Plantations, setting forth that "they have had under Consideration a Bill passed by "the Council & Assembly of your Majesty's Province "of New Jersey. "For makeing Current one hundred "thousand Pounds in Bills of Credit...
Page 332 - I have received and laid before the king your letters of the 17th, 18th, and 21st ultimo, and I am commanded to signify to you his majesty's approbation of your conduct, in communicating to the American commissioners the fourth article of your instructions ; which could not but convince them, that the negotiation for peace, and the cession of independence to...
Page 498 - Customs duties would be made, one at the end of the first year and the other at the end of the...
Page 63 - ... be assisting in that, then the sooner the scabbard is flung away the better. I write by this messenger to Lord Sunderland to the same effect. Keep your temper, and if parliament continues, we will make some of their hearts ache. I am, heart and soul, yours.
Page 278 - ... former (slaveholder though he was) seemed to possess some regard for honor, some reverence for justice, and some respect for humanity. The latter seemed totally insensible to all such sentiments. Mr. Freeland had many of the faults peculiar to slaveholders, such as being very passionate and fretful ; but I must do him the justice to say, that he was exceedingly free from those degrading vices to which Mr. Covey was constantly addicted. The one was open and frank, and we always knew where to find...
Page 406 - ... which he is entitled to, when those rights of Great Britain shall be infringed or invaded; and this must be allowed to be the sense of those defensive engagements. Nothing therefore can be stronger, than the obligations which the Empress of Russia is under by the defensive alliances of 1741 and 1742, and by the King's accession to the treaty of 1746...
Page 166 - DOWNING STREET, 31 July, 1806. Sir, I have received Mr. Secretary Fox's directions to transmit to you the inclosed Letter17 from Messrs. Hoare Hill Barnetts Roan and Hill, and I am to acquaint you that it is His Majesty's Pleasure that you should lose no time in applying to the American Government for permission to have Thomas Bateman and Lydia Wilson apprehended...
Page 397 - Order of the Bath; and it being necessary that he should be invested with the Ensigns of the said Order, which are transmitted to him by this opportunity: I am to signify to you the King's pleasure, that you should perform that ceremony ; and it being his Majesty's intention, that the same be done in the most...
Page 493 - ... en s'assurant d'un corps de troupes capable de faire une puissante diversion en cas de telles attaques, et comme, vu la...

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