The Political Life of the Right Honourable George Canning, from ...: 1822 to the Period of His Death, in August, 1827, Том 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831 |
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Страница 150 - Cavendish, on the sixth, moved that the house should resolve itself into a committee to consider of that revisal.
Страница 22 - If there be any European power which cherishes other projects, which looks to a forcible enterprise for reducing the colonies to subjugation, on the behalf or in the name of Spain, or which meditates the acquisition of any part of them to itself, by cession or by conquest...
Страница 28 - And that, like England, she would willingly see the mother country in possession of superior commercial advantages, by amicable arrangements ; and would be contented, like her, to rank, after the mother country, among the most favoured nations. ... . .,. , ,. Lastly, that she abjured, in any case, any design of acting against the colonies by force of arms.
Страница 29 - The Prince de Polignac proceeded to say that, as to what might be the best arrangement between Spain and Her Colonies, the French Government could not give, nor venture to form an opinion, until the King of Spain should be at Liberty; — That they would then be ready to enter upon it, in concert with their allies, and with Great Britain among the number.
Страница 25 - That the British government had no desire to precipitate that recognition, so long as there was any reasonable chance of an accommodation with the mother country, by which such a recognition might come first from Spain. But that it could not wait indefinitely for that result; that it could not consent to make its recognition of the new states dependent upon that of Spain ; and that it would consider any foreign interference, by force, or by menace, in the dispute between Spain and the colonies, as...
Страница 25 - That, completely convinced that the ancient system of the Colonies could not be restored, the British government could not enter into any stipulation binding itself either to refuse or to delay its recognition of their independence.
Страница 41 - Meanwhile, this explicit recapitulation of the whole course of our sentiments and of our proceedings on this momentous subject, must at once acquit us of any indisposition to answer the call of Spain for friendly...
Страница 84 - Provinces, but to recognize, in due time, their political existence as States, and thus to bring them within the pale of those, rights and duties which civilized nations are bound mutually to respect, and are entitled reciprocally to claim from each other.
Страница 29 - The Prince de Polignac further declared, That he could not conceive what could be meant, under the present circumstances, by a pure and simple acknowledgment of the independence of the Spanish Colonies ; since, those countries being actually distracted by civil wars, there existed no government in them which could offer any appearance of solidity ; and that the acknowledgment of American independence, so long as such a state of things continued, appeared to him to be nothing less than a real sanction...