The Monthly Magazine, Volume 21Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1806 - Art |
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Page 344 - States be requested to demand and insist upon the restoration of the property of their citizens, captured and condemned, on the pretext of its being employed in a trade with the enemies of Great Britain...
Page 17 - For me thy wrinkles have more charms, . Dear Lydia, than a smoother face ! I'd rather fold thee in my arms Than younger, fairer nymphs embrace. ' To me thy autumn is more sweet, More precious than their vernal rose, Their summer warms not with a heat So potent as thy winter glows.
Page 344 - That it is expedient to prohibit by law the importation into the United States of any of the following goods, wares, or merchandise, being the growth, produce, or manufacture...
Page 70 - ... fail of dissipating these, so that we may consider our peace on that coast, generally, to be on as sound a footing as it has been at any preceding time. Still, it will not be expedient to withdraw immediately the whole of our force from that sea.
Page 344 - Senate determined to sustain it : accordingly, by an unanimous vote, this body resolved, • that the capture and condemnation under the • orders of the British Government, and adjudica; lions of their Courts of Admiralty, of American • vessels and their cargoes, on the pretext of their 'being employed in a trade with the enemies of • Great Britain prohibited in time of peace, is an ' unprovoked aggression upon the property of the ' citizens of these United States, a violation of ' their neutral...
Page 226 - ... assailable in the forenoon, and that by the continuance of the same fire for a few hours longer, they would be in such a state as to render it desperate with our numbers to attempt to maintain them.
Page 226 - I never saw this post in a very favourable light, but when I found I was to be attacked in it in so unprepared a state, by so powerful an army and artillery, nothing but the hopes of relief would have induced me to attempt...
Page 485 - I will not be so certain of the time he died, which I did not hear of till long after it happened. When his health and faculties began to decline, he went to France, and after to Bath, in hope his health might be restored, but without success. I never saw him after his sister...
Page 211 - ... form. If it rains, either before or after noon, it is found crept up to the top of its lodging, and there it remains till the weather is settled.
Page 444 - France prepared to invade the electorate — and, lastly, the burthensome conditions under which it endeavoured to cause it to be evacuated, to substitute her own troops instead of those of France, had given too many proofs to the government of Hanover, not to oblige it to endeavour to avoid all...