A Second Letter, Address to the Rigt Honourable Earl Grey, on Portuguese AffairsHatchard, 1831 - 184 ページ |
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144 ページ - ... that any publication which tends to degrade, revile and defame persons in considerable situations of power and dignity in foreign countries may be taken to be and treated as a libel, and particularly when it has a tendency to interrupt the pacific relations between the two countries.
82 ページ - ... of nations, and founded on the principles of public law, that, in the exercise of that undoubted right, the security of neighbouring states should not be endangered. " A series of injuries and insults, for which, notwithstanding repeated remonstrances, all reparation was withheld, compelled me at last to order a squadron of my fleet to appear before Lisbon, with a peremptory demand of satisfaction. A prompt compliance with that demand prevented the necessity of further measures, but I have not...
176 ページ - Those merchants and manufacturers enjoy a sort of monopoly in the country which is so indulgent to them. That country becomes a market both more extensive and more advantageous for their goods : more extensive, because the goods of other nations being either excluded or subjected to heavier duties, it takes off a greater quantity of theirs : more advantageous, because the merchants of the favoured country, enjoying a sort of monopoly there, will often sell their goods for a better price than if exposed...
47 ページ - Highness's consent and confirmation ; in case of not obtaining which, the parties interested are to proceed to a new election, until the Royal Approbation of the Prince Regent be obtained.
162 ページ - His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, being equally animated with the desire not only of consolidating and strengthening the ancient friendship and good understanding which so happily subsist, and have during so many ages subsisted between the two CrownS) but also of improving and extending the beneficial effects thereof to the mutual advantage of Their respective subjects...
53 ページ - Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that nothing in this Act shall extend, or be construed to extend, to...
146 ページ - My learned friend has reminded you that the last prosecution tried in this place at the instance of a French government was for a libel on that magnanimous princess who has since been butchered in sight of her palace. I do not make these observations with any purpose of questioning the general principles which have been laid down by my learned friend. I must admit his right to bring before you those who libel any government recognized by his Majesty and at peace with the British empire. I admit that...
180 ページ - A commercial nation has, indeed, the same interest in the wealth of her neighbors, that a tradesman has in the wealth of his customers. The prosperity of England has been chiefly owing to the general progress of civilized nations in the arts and improvements of social life. Not an acre of land has been brought into cultivation in the wilds of Siberia, or on the shores of the Mississippi, which has not widened the market for English industry.
176 ページ - WHEN a nation binds itself by treaty either to permit the entry of certain goods from one foreign country which it prohibits from all others, or to exempt the goods of one country from duties to which it subjects those of all others, the country, or at least the merchants and manufacturers of the country, whose commerce is so favoured, must necessarily derive great advantage from the treaty.
146 ページ - ... and bloody usurpation, or the most ancient, just, and paternal authority upon earth, we are here equally bound by his majesty's recognition to protect it against "libellous attacks. I admit that if, during our usurpation, Lord Clarendon had published his history at Paris, or the Marquis of Montrose his verses on the murder of his sovereign, or Mr. Cowley his Discourse on Cromwell's government...