The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston: With Selections from His Diaries and Correspondence, Volume 2

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Page 396 - HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, His Majesty the King of the French, His Majesty the King of Prussia, and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias...
Page 396 - Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : — Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 21 - We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poesy ; Arts which I loved ; for they, my friend, were thine.
Page 328 - I know you to be the master of, convey to him, in the most friendly and unoffensive manner possible, that if France throws down the gauntlet we shall not refuse to pick it up; and that if she begins a war she will to a certainty lose her ships,. colonies, and commerce before she sees the end of it ; that her army of Algiers will cease to give her anxiety, and that Mehemet AH will just be chucked into the Nile.
Page 404 - It is also agreed that the navigation of the intermediate channels between the Scheldt and the Rhine, in order to proceed from Antwerp to the Rhine, and vice versa, shall continue reciprocally free, and that it shall be subject only to moderate tolls, which shall be the same for the commerce of the two countries.
Page 41 - ... proceedings less and less every day. Their assurances of friendship and peace are indeed incessant and uniform, but they continue actively preparing for war when nobody threatens them, and while every day discloses more and more their designs upon Belgium, and the underhand proceedings which they fCre carrying on with reference to that country.
Page 399 - Sure, the waterway (Thalweg) of which River shall serve as the limit between the two States, as far as opposite to Tintange, from whence it shall be continued, as directly as possible, towards the present Frontier of the Arrondissement of...
Page 425 - Saintes qui s'y trouvent situées; de l'île de Candie, du district d'Adana, et de toutes les autres parties de l'Empire ottoman qui ne sont pas comprises dans les limites de l'Egypte et dans celles du Pachalic d'Acre, tel qu'il a été désigné ci-dessus.
Page 396 - Honourable Henry John Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a Member of her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council...
Page 302 - Powers whether France joins or not; but that on every possible account we should deeply regret that France should not be a party to the proceeding ; and you might observe that France has distinctly approved of our object, though from internal difficulties she may hesitate as to taking a share in the means of execution. If Soult should hint that France would oppose the four Powers, you Letters.

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