You will believe that I do not urge others to give and to withhold myself; but my mode of subscribing will be novel in its manner, and by doing it I mean to debar myself of many comforts to serve my country, and I expect great consolation every time I cut a slice of salt beef instead of mutton."—...
He had undertaken that this inquisitorial measure, as it was deemed by those who paid it, should be repealed as soon as the war ended. But the Government, faced with the charge, first of the American War and then of Napoleon's escape from Elba, and anxious to contribute some force to preserve int...
2 Berry, II, 189; Tito Duchesses, 164-5, 1703! Trotter, 240; Aberdeen, I, 15; Romilly, II, 90; Granville, I, 343; Espriella, I, 21-22; Glcnbervie, I, 337-8. in their admiration for his achievement and desire for peace, they found themselves becoming apologists for everything which their own liber...