Rijks geschiedkundige publicatiën: Groote serie, Issue 40M. Nijhoff, 1918 - Archives |
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24 articles AAN LORD PALMERSTON affairs Antwerp appears army arrangement BAGOT AAN LORD Baron Verstolk Baron Zuylen Belgian government België Belgique Belgium British chamber Charles Rogier communication conference consequence Count declared Deel dépêche DISBROWE AAN LORD door droits Dutch government duty eene été Falck Febr feeling five powers fortresses France French government H. M.'s government Hague Haye heeft het Handelsblad Holland hostilities House of Nassau informed instructions Java JERNINGHAM AAN LORD King King's Limburg London LORD ABERDEEN LORD PALMERSTON Lordship Luxemburg Maart measures ment minister Molé morning negotiation Netherland government Netherland Majesty niet object observed opinion Parijs party Pays-Bas plenipotentiaries present Prince of Orange proposed proposition protocol provinces Provisional Government Prussian qu'il received Recueil reply Scheldt Sebastiani Sept Sir Robert Adair Talleyrand territory Theux town traité troops Uit Brussel Uit den Haag Uit Londen Venloo WELLINGTON yesterday zijn
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Page 405 - Netherlands, desiring to place upon a footing, mutually beneficial, their respective possessions and the commerce of their subjects in the East Indies, so that the welfare and prosperity of both nations may be promoted. in all time to come, without those differences and jealousies which have, in former times, interrupted the harmony which ought always to subsist between them...
Page xiv - ... inspired. It may not be amiss for you to hint, upon any fitting occasion, that though we are anxious to cultivate the best understanding with France, and to be on the terms of the most intimate friendship with her, yet that it is only on the supposition that she contents herself with the finest territory in Europe, and does not mean to open a new chapter of encroachment and conquest.
Page 425 - Dutch bottoms, shall be arranged so as, in no case, to be charged at more than double the amount of the Duties paid by British Subjects and on British bottoms. In regard to any article upon which no Duty is imposed, when imported or exported by the Subjects, or on the Vessels, of the Nation to which the Port belongs, the Duty charged upon the Subjects or Vessels of the other shall in no case, exceed six per cent.
Page xiv - I found since this conversation that he had been making similar propositions to Prussia about her Rhenish provinces, in the event of the possibility of moving the King of Saxony to Belgium and giving Saxony to Prussia. To-day, he proposed to me that France should get Philippeville and Marienburg, in consideration of France using her influence to procure the election of Leopold for Belgium. I do not like all this ; it looks as if France was unchanged in her system of encroachment, and it diminishes...
Page xxxii - I am not so sure that what he reads to me is all he sends, and that the rest is in the same tone. " One thing is certain — the French must go out of Belgium, or we have a general war, and war in a given number of days.
Page lxix - Statesgeneral should have led to no satisfactory result. I am endeavouring, in concert with my Allies, to devise such means of restoring tranquillity as may be compatible with the welfare and good government of the Netherlands, and with the future security of other states.
Page xxi - Bismarck in these latter years. schot;* the substance of what I told him was as follows: While the Belgians continue to treat the conference in so unbecoming a manner, and to set up pretensions which place them in a state of moral war, if not actually of physical war, with the four Powers, and with all Germany, the letters which he has brought from the regent to the king must remain in his pocket. ')' We can hold no relation with the Belgian government; and though I shall be happy to receive M. D'Arschot...
Page 390 - The subjects and vessels of one nation shall not pay, upon importation or exportation, at the ports of the other in the Eastern Seas, any duty at a rate beyond the double of that at which the subjects and vessels of the nation to which the port belongs are charged. The duties paid on exports or imports at a British port, on the continent of India, or in Ceylon, on Dutch bottoms, shall be arranged so as in no case to be charged at more than double the amount of the duties paid by British subjects,...
Page lxviii - I have witnessed with deep regret the state of affairs in the Low Countries. I lament that the enlightened administration of the King should not have preserved his dominions from revolt...
Page xxvi - Maestricht is in his hands still, and that place, therefore, is yours neither de facto nor de jure; and it is as absurd to say that it has become your property merely because the Congress has so decreed it, as it would be to declare Belgium possessors and owners of Aix-la-Chapelle or Lille upon similar grounds. We therefore require you to cede nothing to which you have any shadow of a right...