The experience of every day shows the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. It is useless to complain ; but we are certainly not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend. The Edinburgh Annual Register - Strona 747pod redakcją - 1811Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Sir Charles William Pasley - 1810 - Liczba stron: 822
...Wellington observes, in his letter to Lord Wellesley, dated the 12th of August, 1809, " it is useless to " complain ; but we are certainly not treated as...cause of Spain can " depend. But besides this want of good will, which can " easily be traced to the temper and disposition of the Ge~ " neral commanding... | |
| Sir Charles William Pasley - 1811 - Liczba stron: 570
...Wellington observes, in his letter to Lord Wellesley, dated the 12th of August, 1809, " it is useless to " complain; but we are .certainly not treated as...less as the only .prop on which the cause of Spain «1 can depend. But besides this want of good will, which " can easily be traced to the temper and... | |
| Robert Southey - 1827 - Liczba stron: 836
...on the way, and deprived of all his .barley and part of his bread by a detachment of Spanish horse. Whatever momentary irritation might be occasioned...the British ambassador, " to complain ; but we are not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend. But, besides... | |
| Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1834 - Liczba stron: 606
...shows the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. ' It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause in Spain can depend. But besides this want of good will, which can easily be traced to the temper and... | |
| William Walton - 1837 - Liczba stron: 446
...English envoy on the subject of defective supplies, Sir Arthur Wellesley said : — " It is useless to complain ; but we are certainly not treated as...only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend." The Marquis of Wellesley suspected some members of the junta of treason, and all of them of insincerity.... | |
| Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) - 1838 - Liczba stron: 620
...shows the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. ' It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause in Spain can depend. But besides this want of good will, which can easily be traced to the temper and... | |
| Marquess Richard Wellesley Wellesley - 1838 - Liczba stron: 296
...shews the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. It is useless to complain ; but we are certainly not treated as...cause of Spain can depend. But besides this want of good will, (which can easily be traced to the temper and disposition of the general commanding the... | |
| Martin Andrew Sharp Hume - 1900 - Liczba stron: 618
...his brother the Marquis of Wellesley, at this time English ambassador to the Junta. "It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends,...only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend." And again, " I am much afraid from what I have seen of the proceedings of the Central Junta, that in... | |
| John Kenneth Severn - 2007 - Liczba stron: 628
...in a schoolyard brawl, hurled his own battery of accusations at the Spanish allies. "It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends,...only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend," he wrote to his brother in great frustration.11 In Seville, Wellesley found an atmosphere quite different... | |
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