Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K. G.: 1828-1829

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Contents

Guards The payment of General officers of
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Navy the Duke of Clarence resigns the office of Lord High
1
Convention for the settlement of the British and Spanish claims
6
CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIVE
10
Kings Bounty Fund 12
12
Admiralty arrangement for the after the resignation of the Duke
14
Cope Sir John correspondence with on the destruction of foxes
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Gordon Duke of letter to 553
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIVE
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Courtenay Mr Peregrine 70
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Aglie Comte d Sardinian minister 29
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Gaisford Professor refuses the deanery of Norwich 33 to
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Vaudois The memorandum by the Duke on 599 British inter
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Rutland Duke of letter to 314 correspondence with on
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Ireland elections in 42 70 399 Brunswick clubs 42 94 120
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Pitt Right Hon William cause of resignation of
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Saltpetre supply of
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Croker Right Hon J Wilson correspondence with 53 54
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Young Mr case of 45 release of 52 to be banished from
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Guernsey proposed establishment of a French Jesuit seminary
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Wallace Mr letter to the Right Hon J Wilson Croker on
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King mention of 1 letter from the Duke of Wel
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America British North state of militia laws in 71 Canadian
80
Castelcicala Prince de correspondence with 108 114
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Knighton Sir William Private Secretary to the King corre
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OConnell Mr opinion of on fortyshilling freeholders 103
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIVE
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Gower Lord Francis Leveson Earl of Ellesmere satisfaction
112
Bagdad Pacha of encouragement to improve his military resources
118
Emigrants pensions to Spanish 12 47 283 290 Germans
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Memoranda c by the Duke of Wellingtoncontinued
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Steele Mr disturbance created in Ireland by 144 155 166 case
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Anonymous letters
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England officiousness of the English people 184 226 panic
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Farnborough Lord 427 488
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Wetherell Sir Charles AttorneyGeneral office of Baron of
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Privy Council in England and Ireland 120 122 148
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Scarlett Sir James Lord Abinger 179 192 203 fitness of
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Pensions memorandum by the Duke of Wellington respecting
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Stevenson Mr Alexander letter from on the Episcopal Church
221
Gurney Mr legal opinion respecting libels on the Duke in
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Brest secret intelligence from
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hundreds of letters on all subjects of public interest
252
Italian emigrants
283
Leinster Duke of letter from on Catholic emancipation 425
284
Williams Sir Robert letter to 452
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de case of 416
311
Militia pay of the 68 state of militia laws in British North
323
Buckingham Palace expenses of buildings at
336
Loan Portuguese 143 Spanish 338
338
Memoranda c by various writerscontinued
350
Cutch affairs of
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Sumner Dr Charles Richard Bishop of Winchester memorandum
413
Hanover and Brunswick question between 416 Hanoverian trea
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Egypt Mehemet Ali Pacha Vizier of conferences of Sir Edward
422
Appointments legal 179 203 217 see Church preferment
424
Dalhousie Earl of to succeed Lord Combermere as commander
429
Bagot Lord letter from to Earl Bathurst 502
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America United States of treaty with in relation to shipping
444
Bathurst Earl Lord President of the Council correspondence
450
Owen RearAdmiral Sir Edward disposed to retire from
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unreasonable requests made to 453 letters to the King
476
Beaufort Duke of mention of 476 Privy Seal offered to 478
478
Chandos Marquess of letter from expressing the wish of his father
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Tangier blockade of 320 321
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Daly Mr James noncompletion of grant of peerage to
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pressure of business on 487 position of government
492
Watson Sir Frederick B K G H Master of the Household
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Owen Sir John letter to upon the reform of the judicature
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Cumberland 504 reply of the King 507 painful dis
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Bülow Baron Prussian minister character of 225 mention of 592
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London Bishop of see Blomfield
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Fleming J Esq letter to
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Winchilsea Earl of opinion on the Roman Catholic question 253
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House of Commons expected retirement of the Speaker 98
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Bentham Jeremy letters from 546
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Beresford General Viscount MasterGeneral of the Ordnance
557
Petitions question respecting presentation of by peers to
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Caboga Count reflections on the siege of Varna by 328
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Scotland extracts from the printed Acts of the Episcopal Church
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Church preferment 33 34 bishopric of Calcutta 426
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Lushington Mr proceedings of in India 166 175 301 329 340
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Foxes destruction of in Windsor Park 582 600
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Darnley Earl of letter to
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIVE
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Candia blockade of 132 blockade of raised 140 151 165
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Discipline the Dukes notion of 138 comparison between British
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Army British salary of the AdjutantGeneral 2 12 allowances
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Reineck General Baron SwedishGreek commander in Candia
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d Portuguese ambassador 36 46 52 313
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Montgomery Sir Henry C letter to
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Police of the metropolis bill of Mr Peel respecting 606
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Philips Sir George letter from enclosing a communication
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Pakenham Admiral the Hon Sir Thomas letter to
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Spain convention for settlement of claims of 6 debts of
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Morea The French expedition to 3 15 46 249 affairs in 4
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Clarence Duke of resignation of office of Lord High Admiral
1
Canning Mr Stratford Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe ambas
2
Bernstorff Count 222 225
5
Portugal accounts from 28 political affairs in and projected
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Lynedoch General Lord letter from 14
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Amherst Earl proposed for LordLieutenant of Ireland 357
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of a bill for Roman Catholic emancipation precede
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Russia memorandum by the Duke upon the language the British
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Page 514 - For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for...
Page 468 - His Majesty recommends that, when this essential object shall have been accomplished, you should take into your deliberate consideration the whole condition of Ireland, and that you should review the laws which impose Civil disabilities on his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects.
Page 516 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Page 466 - His Majesty commands us to inform you, that his Majesty continues to receive from his allies, and generally from all princes and states, assurances of their unabated desire to maintain and cultivate the relations of peace with his Majesty, and with each other; and that it is his Majesty's constant endeavour to preserve the general tranquillity.
Page 503 - You will consider whether the removal of those disabilities can be effected consistently with the full and permanent security of our establishments in Church and State...
Page 557 - And lastly, that after the decease of her present Majesty, (whom God long preserve) the sovereign succeeding to her in the royal government of the kingdom of Great Britain, shall in all time coming, at his or her accession to the crown, swear and subscribe, that they shall inviolably maintain and preserve the foresaid settlement of the true Protestant religion, with the government, worship, discipline, rights and privileges of this Church, as above established by the laws of this kingdom, in prosecution...
Page 250 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm: So .help me God.
Page 62 - His Britannic Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada ; he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Page 523 - Instead of apologizing for your own conduct, your Lordship has called upon me to explain mine. The question for me now to decide is this. Is a gentleman who happens to be the King's minister to submit to be insulted by any gentleman who thinks proper to attribute to him disgraceful or criminal motives...
Page 513 - Late political events have convinced me, that the whole transaction was intended as a blind to the Protestant and high-church party ; that the noble Duke, who had, for some time previous to that period, determined upon ' breaking in upon the constitution of 1688,' might the more effectually, under the cloak of some outward shew of zeal for the Protestant religion, carry on his insidious designs for the infringement of our liberties, and the introduction of Popery into every department of the state.

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