Personal Recollections of the Life and Times: With Extracts from the Correspondence of Valentine Lord Cloncurry

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J. McGlashan, 1849 - 510 sivua
 

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Sivu 227 - MY LORD, — I have had the honour of receiving your Lordship's letter of the 18th instant.
Sivu 54 - We have offered you our measure — you will reject it ; we deprecate yours— you will persevere. Having no hopes left to persuade or dissuade, and having discharged our duty, we shall trouble you no more, and, AFTER THIS DAY, SHALL NOT ATTEND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS I— Debates, vol.
Sivu 310 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Sivu 55 - Parliamentary constitution prosper ; but let it be an operative, independent, and integral part of the constitution, advising, confining, and sometimes directing, the Kingly power. " May the House of Commons flourish ; but let the people be the sole author of its existence, as they should be the great object of its care. " May the connexion with Great Britain continue ; but let the result of that connexion be, the perfect freedom, in the fairest and fullest sense, of all descriptions of men, without...
Sivu 69 - Hamburg; and yet,' he continued, 'under present circumstances, and with evidence of the nature of that of which the Government here is in possession, strong and decisive as it is, none of those persons can be brought to trial without exposing secrets of the last importance to the State, the revealing of which may implicate the safety of the two kingdoms.
Sivu 200 - Upon the occasion of my visit to Frascati, I presented the cardinal with, a telescope, which he seemed to fancy, and received from him in return the large medal struck in honour of his accession to his unsubstantial throne. Upon one side of this medal was the royal bust, with the cardinal's hat, and the words ' Henricus nonus Dei gratia rex ; ' and upon the other the arms of England, with the motto on the exergue, ' Haud desideriis hominum, sed voluntate Dei.
Sivu 394 - ... are admitted to the presence of his Majesty's representative in Ireland, and equally well received with the King's most loyal subjects. I will not conceal from you likewise that your visit, and those of my Lord Chancellor to Lord Cloncurry, and the attendance of Lord Cloncurry at the Roman Catholic Association, immediately...
Sivu 28 - Will the armed associations, wise as they may be, be able to form a better though they reject this? Before they have for a single session entered...
Sivu 11 - Vathek," who made his journey in a style that would astonish the princes of the present degenerate days. His travelling menage consisted of about thirty horses, with four carriages, and a corresponding train of servants. Immediately upon his arrival Mr. Beckford set up a fine yacht upon the lake, and by his munificent hospitality, soon ingratiated himself with the young Englishmen of rank whose names I have mentioned. The friendship, however, was not of long endurance: in the course of a few weeks,...
Sivu 55 - May the Kingly Power that forms one estate in our constitution, continue for ever ; but let it be as it professes to be, and as by the principles and laws of these countries it should be, one estate only ; and not a power constituting one estate, creating another, and influencing a third.

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