Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Volumen 4 |
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... carry back to his Colony the most agreeable impression of the improved tone of public opinion on Colonial affairs , as was so strongly manifested at the late tele- graph celebration , and for which the Colonial Institute might , in his ...
... carry back to his Colony the most agreeable impression of the improved tone of public opinion on Colonial affairs , as was so strongly manifested at the late tele- graph celebration , and for which the Colonial Institute might , in his ...
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... carried out . The Americans claimed to have the line run through the Western or Haro Channel , which would give to them the Island of San Juan . The British contended that the possession of Vancouver Island carried with it the ...
... carried out . The Americans claimed to have the line run through the Western or Haro Channel , which would give to them the Island of San Juan . The British contended that the possession of Vancouver Island carried with it the ...
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... carrying out such a project , and of allowing freighted ships drawing more than ten feet of water to pass only within a certain range of their proposed fort , the Henry Island was the most important one of the whole group . Referring ...
... carrying out such a project , and of allowing freighted ships drawing more than ten feet of water to pass only within a certain range of their proposed fort , the Henry Island was the most important one of the whole group . Referring ...
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... carried thorough British feelings and British principles into the wilderness of Canada . ( Applause . ) He had taken this opportunity of putting a few questions fairly before the British public , because he felt that the great ...
... carried thorough British feelings and British principles into the wilderness of Canada . ( Applause . ) He had taken this opportunity of putting a few questions fairly before the British public , because he felt that the great ...
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... carried out his three objects , which were : 1. A twenty - five years ' quarrel with the United States . 2. The loss of the island of San Juan to Great Britain . 3. That San Juan should be fortified against us by the United States ...
... carried out his three objects , which were : 1. A twenty - five years ' quarrel with the United States . 2. The loss of the island of San Juan to Great Britain . 3. That San Juan should be fortified against us by the United States ...
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Página 12 - Alabama claims. And whereas Her Britannic Majesty has authorized her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to express in a friendly spirit the regret felt by Her Majesty's Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Alabama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed by those vessels.
Página 27 - A neutral government is bound— First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace...
Página 26 - Our citizens have always been free to make, vend and export arms. It is the constant occupation and livelihood of some of them. To suppress their callings, the only means perhaps of their subsistence, because a war exists in foreign and distant countries in which we have no concern, would scarcely be expected.
Página 37 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Página 39 - States shall be continued westward along the said 49th parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
Página 39 - From the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude where the boundary laid down in existing treaties and conventions between the United States and Great Britain terminates, the line of boundary between the territories of the United States and those of Her Britannic Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude...
Página 221 - I am bordering upon seventyseven years of age passed in honour. " I hope that the Almighty may protect me from being the witness of the tragedy which I cannot persuade my contemporaries to take measures to avert.
Página 146 - And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
Página 51 - And that true North, whereof we lately heard A strain to shame us "keep you to yourselves; So loyal is too costly! friends - your love Is but a burthen: loose the bond, and go.
Página 16 - American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved to them.