United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Volume 43

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H. Colburn, 1843

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Page 212 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore. Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 280 - The defence of the Essex, taking into consideration our superiority of force, the very discouraging circumstance of her having lost her main-top-mast, and being twice on fire, did honour to her brave defenders, and most fully evinced the courage of captain Porter and those under his comma.nd.
Page 456 - ... disaffection in the minds of Her Majesty's subjects, and to bring into hatred and contempt the Government and Constitution of the country as by law established ; " And whereas at some of the said meetings, such seditious and inflammatory language has been used by persons...
Page 289 - Friant had been struck with a ball by my side, and I myself had my horse killed, and fell under it. The brave men who will return from this terrible battle will, I hope, do me the justice to say, that they saw me on foot with sword in hand during the whole of the evening, and that I only quitted the scene of carnage among the last, and at the moment when retreat could no longer be prevented.
Page 129 - ... justice and impartiality, and to cooperate with Parliament in effecting such amendments in the existing laws as may tend to improve the social condition and to develop the natural resources of Ireland. From a deep conviction that the Legislative Union is not less essential to the attainment of these objects than to the strength and stability of the Empire, it is my firm determination, with your support, and under the blessing of Divine Providence, to maintain inviolate that great bond of connexion...
Page 112 - Romilly moved in the House of Commons for a return of the number of...
Page 104 - I expect," says that autocratic trader, " that my will and orders shall be your rule, and not the laws of England, which are a heap of nonsense compiled by a number of country gentlemen, who hardly know how to govern their own families, much less the regulating companies and foreign commerce.
Page 145 - Kings, living while youth and beauty last as the concubine of the infidel, thrown aside when their attractions have departed, to perish in their degradation and shame. This is the first of the black fruits of invasion for which Britons must blush. We have avoided explicitness on such a subject : our readers will be at no loss to discover our meaning: — the most attractive of the ladies of the Zenana now share the tents of British officers.
Page 457 - ... and in the effectual dispersion and suppression of the same, and in the detection and prosecution of those who, after this notice, shall offend in the respects aforesaid. — Given at...
Page 392 - ... advocate. On the 5th of March, 1824, during the discussion on the Mutiny bill, he raised the question of flogging in our army, and denounced it in a telling speech ; lie was supported by Sir Robert Wilson and other members ; and he persisted in dividing the House upon the proposition, " That it should not be lawful to inflict corporal punishment by flogging, on any private soldier or noncommissioned officer ;" for which 24 members voted, and 50 against it. And on the 15th of the same month, he...

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