The Congress of Verona: Comprising a Portion of Memoirs of His Own Times, Том 1

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Стр. 300 - Madrid have been rejected, leaves little hope of preserving peace. I have ordered the recall of my minister: one hundred thousand Frenchmen, commanded by a prince of my family, — by him whom my heart delights to call my son, — are ready to march, invoking the God of St. Louis, for the sake of preserving the throne of Spain to a descendant of Henry IV. — of saving that fine kingdom from its ruin, and of reconciling it with Europe.
Стр. 248 - Be pleased to accept, most illustrious and reverend sir, the assurance of the high consideration with which I have the honour to be, &c.
Стр. 465 - I see plenty of war if you once get into it ; but I do not see a legitimate beginning to it, nor an intelligible object. You would disdain to get into such a war through the side-door of an accidental military incursion. You would enter in front, with the cause of war blazoned on your banner. And what is that cause ? Is it to be learned from the notes or despatches of the four continental powers — or from M.
Стр. 476 - Leave the Spanish revolution to burn itself out within its own crater. You have nothing to apprehend from the eruption, if you do not open a channel for the lava through the Pyrenees.
Стр. 133 - Government are of opinion, that to animadvert upon the internal transactions of an Independent State, unless such transactions affect the essential interests of His Majesty's subjects, is inconsistent with those principles on which His Majesty has invariably acted on all questions relating to the internal concerns of other Countries ; that such animadversions, if made, must involve His Majesty in serious responsibility, if they should produce any effect; and must irritate, if they should...
Стр. 477 - I am grieved to say, is more perfect now than' on that occasion; for then the Jacobins were loath to inculpate their idol; now, they, and the whigs and' tories, from one end of the country to the other, are all one way. Surely such a spontaneous and universal burst of national sentiment must lead any man, or any set of men, who are acting in opposition. to it, to doubt whether they are acting quite right. The government has not on this occasion led the public; quite otherwise. The language of the...
Стр. 362 - When we saw the situation in which Buonaparte now stood ; when we saw him reduced to make professions contrary to his very nature ; when we saw the vessel in which his fortunes were embarked labouring with the storm, and its mast bowed down to the...
Стр. 465 - I dispute it not. I grant you a French army at Madrid. But I venture to ask, " what then — if the King of Spain and the Cortes are by that time, where they infallibly will be, in the Isle of Leon...
Стр. 476 - He regrets as much as he is surprised at the change. It is not yet too late to save the world from a series of calamities. The key to the floodgate is yet in your hands. Unlock it, and who shall answer for the extent of devastation ? " The beginning of strife is as the letting out of waters.
Стр. 466 - ... place an Austrian Prince with enlarged powers upou her throne ? Surely the discussions with which the war has been prefaced are as hazardous as the war itself. Consider before what an audience you plead. How many of their passions are against you ! — how few of their sympathies are with you ! * * * And do you make war to free such a monarch from all restraint ? And do you hope to have mankind with you ?

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