Chronological History of the West Indies, 第 3 巻Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1827 |
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Admiral anchored Annual Register arms army arrived assembly attack Barbadoes Batavian republic battery boats brig Britannic Majesty British Cape François capitulation Captain captured carried Cochrane Coke's West Indies Colonel colony colour command commissioners conduct crew Curaçoa defended Dessalines dispatch Domingo Dominica Edinburgh Annual enemy enemy's English fire flag force France French frigate garrison governor Grenada Guadaloupe guns harbour Hayti honour immediately Indian Slavery inhabitants island Jamaica killed and wounded King land letter Lieutenant Lord lordships Majesty's ship Majesty's sloop Major-General March marines Martinico master Methodists morning Mulattoes Naval Chronicle Negroes night o'clock officers persons plantations Port Port Royal Port-au-Prince possession pounders present prisoners privateer Rear-Admiral received regiment Royal sail schooner seamen sent shore slave trade Spaniards Spanish squadron sugar Surinam surrender taken tion Tortola Toussaint town Trinidad troops vessels
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244 ページ - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
230 ページ - SIR, I HAVE the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that the...
575 ページ - January 9th, 1815. SIR, During the days of the 6th and 7th, the enemy had been actively employed in making preparations for an attack on my lines. With infinite labour they had succeeded on the night of the 7th, in getting their boats across from the lake to the river,, by widening and deepening the canal on which they had effected 456 their disembarkation.
576 ページ - Morgan, and, what is strange and difficult to account for, at the very moment when their entire discomfiture was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, in whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces, and thus yielding to the enemy that most formidable position.
524 ページ - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
438 ページ - Sir, — I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
327 ページ - Spartel in sight, but no French fleet, nor any information about them. How sorrowful this makes me ! but I cannot help myself.
576 ページ - ... already been delivered over for burial ; and my men are still engaged in picking them up, within my lines, and carrying them to the point where the enemy are to receive them; this is in addition to the dead and wounded whom the enemy have been enabled to carry from the field, during and since the action— and to those who have since died, of the wounds they received. We have taken about 500 prisoners, upwards of 300 of whom are wounded, and a great part of them mortally.
611 ページ - The present additional article shall have the same force and validity as if it were inserted, word for word, in the Treaty signed this day. it shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time.
568 ページ - Whereas the traffic in slaves is irreconcilable with the principles of humanity and justice, and whereas both His Majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed that both the contracting parties shall use their best endeavours to accomplish so desirable an object.