Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K. G.: South of France, embassy to Paris, and Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815

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Page 120 - Navarre on the other part, animated by an equal desire to terminate the long agitations of Europe, and the sufferings of Mankind, by a permanent Peace, founded upon a just repartition of force between its States...
Page 357 - Ils seront ratifiés , et les ratifications en seront échangées en même temps. En foi de quoi les plénipotentiaires respectifs les ont signés et y ont apposé le cachet de leurs armes. Fait à Paris , le 4/16 septembre de l'an de grâce 1846.
Page 426 - Lakes, you have not been able to carry it into the enemy's territory, notwithstanding your military success, and now undoubted military superiority, and have not even cleared your own territory of the enemy on the point of attack.
Page 173 - Offence shall be committed, by the Oath or Oaths of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses, or by the Confession of the...
Page 173 - ... that then and in such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the said...
Page 129 - XXXI. All Archives, Maps, Plans, and Documents whatever, belonging to the ceded Countries, or respecting their administration, shall be faithfully given up at the same time with the said Countries : or if that should be impossible, within a period not exceeding six months after the cession of the Countries themselves. This Stipulation applies to the Archives, Maps and Plates, which may have been carried away from the Countries during their temporary occupation by the different Annies.
Page 120 - In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias...
Page 121 - His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias...
Page 426 - Then if this reasoning be true, why stipulate for the uti possidetis? You can get no territory ; indeed the state of your military operations, however creditable, does not entitle you to demand any ; and you only afford the Americans a popular and creditable ground which, I believe, their Government are looking for, not to break off the negotiations, but to avoid to make peace. If you had territory, as I hope you soon will have New Orleans, I should prefer to insist upon the cession of that province...
Page 121 - His Majesty the King of Prussia ; And His Majesty the King of...

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