Sketch of the Geography, Political Economy, and Statistics of France: From the Original Work, ...

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Rapine and Elliot, Published by Joseph Milligan, 1815 - 406 pages
 

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Page ii - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 397 - That convention, however, may be terminated with twelve months' notice, at the option of either party. A treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce, between the United States and his majesty the emperor of Austria, king of Hungary and Bohemia...
Page 400 - His Britannic Majesty, stipulating for himself and his Allies, engages to restore to his most Christian Majesty, within the term which shall be hereafter fixed, the colonies, fisheries, factories and establishments of every kind, which were possessed by France on the 1st...
Page ii - Sketch of the Geography, political economy, and statistics of France ; from the original work .... by Peuchet Sonnini.
Page 400 - VI. Holland, placed under the Sovereignty of the House of Orange, shall receive an increase of Territory.
Page 401 - The high contracting parties wishing to place and cause to be placed in entire oblivion the divisions which have agitated Europe, declare and promise, that in the countries restored and ceded by the present treaty, no individual of whatever class or condition shall be prevented, harassed, or disturbed in his person or property, under any pretext...
Page 401 - Majesty to enjoy, in regard to commerce and the security of their persons and properties, within the limits of the British sovereignty on the continent of India, the same facilities, privileges, and protection, which are at present granted to the most favoured nations. On his side, his most Christian Majesty having nothing more at heart than the perpetuity of the peace between the two Crowns of France and England, and wishing to contribute, as much as in him lies, to remove henceforward such points...
Page 399 - Geneva with the other parts of the Swiss territory on the Lake, France consents that the road by Versoy shall be common to the two countries. The respective governments will have...
Page 390 - France; this progress commenced long before the revolution ; since that epoch, new causes have accelerated it much, and these causes would have produced effects still more important, if destructive events had not diminished their influence. The propagation of good modes of agriculture by learned societies, the residence of a number of rich proprietors in the country, their experiments, their instructions, and examples, the erection of veterinary schools, produced the most happy effects in many branches...
Page 394 - The government considered our seamen as merely recruits for the land forces — a system which lias led to the annihilation of the population of our coasts, and the complete exhaustion of our arsenals. The remonstrances of the most enlightened men, and of the most experienced mariners, and the evidence of facts, were incapable of checking those foolish enterprises, those violent measures, which belonged to a plan of domination oppressive in all its parts. Thus, in 1804, the projected invasion of...

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