The Political Life of the Right Honourable George Canning: From His Acceptance of the Foreign Department in September, 1822 to the Period of His Death in August 1827: Together with a Short Review of Foreign Affairs Subsequently to that Event

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831
 

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Página 150 - Cavendish, on the sixth, moved that the house should resolve itself into a committee to consider of that revisal.
Página 22 - If there be any European power which cherishes other projects, which looks to a forcible enterprise for reducing the colonies to subjugation, on the behalf or in the name of Spain, or which meditates the acquisition of any part of them to itself, by cession or by conquest...
Página 28 - And that, like England, she would willingly see the mother country in possession of superior commercial advantages, by amicable arrangements ; and would be contented, like her, to rank, after the mother country, among the most favoured nations. ... . .,. , ,. Lastly, that she abjured, in any case, any design of acting against the colonies by force of arms.
Página 29 - The Prince de Polignac proceeded to say that, as to what might be the best arrangement between Spain and Her Colonies, the French Government could not give, nor venture to form an opinion, until the King of Spain should be at Liberty; — That they would then be ready to enter upon it, in concert with their allies, and with Great Britain among the number.
Página 84 - Provinces, but to recognize, in due time, their political existence as States, and thus to bring them within the pale of those, rights and duties which civilized nations are bound mutually to respect, and are entitled reciprocally to claim from each other.
Página 25 - That the British government had no desire to precipitate that recognition, so long as there was any reasonable chance of an accommodation with the mother country, by which such a recognition might come first from Spain. But that it could not wait indefinitely for that result; that it could not consent to make its recognition of the new states dependent upon that of Spain ; and that it would consider any foreign interference, by force, or by menace, in the dispute between Spain and the colonies, as...
Página 146 - Liverpool said, that he apprehended such a course would be rendered unnecessary by what he was about to state. He could not be ignorant of the state of public feeling with regard to this measure ; and it appeared to be the opinion of the House, that the bill should be...
Página 404 - the character of belligerency was not so much a principle as a fact ; that a certain degree of force and consistency acquired by any mass of population engaged in war entitled that population to be treated as a belligerent, and even if their title were questionable, rendered it the interest well understood of all civilized nations so to treat them...
Página 25 - That, completely convinced that the ancient system of the Colonies could not be restored, the British government could not enter into any stipulation binding itself either to refuse or to delay its recognition of their independence.
Página 32 - ... produced in his American provinces, and of the relations which, during the disorders, have been formed with commercial nations ; in order thereby to adopt with good faith the measures most proper for conciliating the rights and just interests of the crown of Spain and of its Sovereignty, with those which circumstances may have occasioned with respect to other nations.

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