The Revolutions of Spain, from 1808 to the End of 1836: With Biographical Sketches of the Most Distinguished Personages, and a Narrative of the War in the Peninsula Down to the Present Time, from the Most Authentic Sources, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1837 - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 |
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Page 202 - Cortes; a prerogative which otherwise never would have been left at the will of the Congress. Every thing was thus placed at the disposal of the Cortes, who on the very day of their installation, and as a commencement of their acts, stripped me of the sovereignty which the deputies themselves had just before acknowledged, nominally attributing it to the nation, in order to appropriate it to themselves, and by this usurpation enact such laws as they deemed fit, imposing on the people the obligation...
Page 156 - I am much afraid, from what I have seen of the proceedings of the Central Junta, that in the distributions of their forces they do not consider military defence and military operations, so much as they do political intrigue and the attainment of trifling political objects.
Page 341 - But if there exist imperfections in the frame of the government of France, or of England respectively, should we consent to reform those imperfections, on the demand of a foreign power, and under the menace of a foreign war as the penalty of our refusal ? Even by the mode in which the demand was made by France, that...
Page 135 - Berg a dû y entrer le 23 avec 40,000 hommes. Jusqu'à cette heure le peuple m'appelle à grands cris. Certain que je n'aurai de paix solide avec l'Angleterre qu'en donnant un grand mouvement au continent, j'ai résolu de mettre un prince français sur le trône d'Espagne.
Page 257 - if a declaration of any such determination should be made at Verona, come what might, he should refuse the king's consent to become a party to it, even though the dissolution of the alliance should be the consequence of the refusal.
Page 11 - Algeciras, Gibraltar, and the Canary Islands ; Count and Countess of Barcelona ; Lords of Biscay and Molina...
Page 135 - Vous sentez que ceci n'est encore qu'un projet, et que, quoique j'aie 100,000 hommes en Espagne, il est possible, par les circonstances qui peuvent survenir, ou que je marche directement et que tout soit fait dans quinze jours, ou que je marche plus lentement et que cela soit le secret de plusieurs mois d'opérations.
Page 292 - VM rendue à la liberté et usant de clémence, trouverait bon d'accorder une amnistie nécessaire après tant de troubles et de donner à ses peuples par la convocation des anciennes Cortes du Royaume des garanties d'ordre, de justice, et de bonne administration.
Page 186 - ... parts, is the most extraordinary of the many singularities which marked the Spanish contest. " In the new representative plan, neither population nor wealth was taken as a basis. Valencia, with 1,040,740 souls, was allowed nineteen deputies ; whilst Granada, including Malaga, and containing 1,100,640...
Page 135 - Jusqu'à cette heure, le peuple m'appelle à grands cris. Certain que je n'aurai de paix solide avec l'Angleterre qu'en donnant un grand mouvement au continent, j'ai résolu de mettre un prince français sur le trône d'Espagne. Le climat de la Hollande ne vous convient pas. D'ailleurs la Hollande ne saurait sortir de ses ruines. Dans...