Memoranda of a Residence at the Court of London, Comprising Incidents Official and Personal from 1819-1825: Including Negotiations on the Oregon Question, and Other Unsettled Questions Between the United States and Great Britain

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Lea & Blanchard, 1845 - 640 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 456 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Pàgina 558 - And if the said commissioners shall agree in their decision, both parties shall consider such decision as final and conclusive. It is further agreed, that in the event of the two commissioners differing upon all or any of the matters so referred to them, or in the event of both or either of the said commissioners refusing, or declining. or wilfully omitting, to act as...
Pàgina 24 - And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother...
Pàgina 411 - Spain, or which meditates the acquisition of any part of them to itself, by cession or by conquest, such a declaration on the part of your government and ours would be at once the most effectual and the least offensive mode of intimating our joint disapprobation of such projects. It would at the same time put an end to all the jealousies of Spain with respect to her remaining colonies, and to the agitation which prevails in those colonies, an agitation which it would be but humane to allay, being...
Pàgina 558 - States, stating in detail the points on which they differ, and the grounds upon which their respective opinions have been formed, or the grounds upon which they, or either of them, have so refused, declined, or omitted to act. And His Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United States hereby agree to refer the report or reports of the said Commissioners to some friendly sovereign or State, to be then named for that purpose...

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