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"Heroic, romantic, and full of the old gallantry" to the end, he lived out his last days in the great manor house of an English village, and was laid to rest in the peaceful village church in 1785.
In January, 1785, the proposal was made and adopted in the Legislature of Virginia, and communicated to the other State Legislatures. The Convention was held at Annapolis, in September of that year.
In my Letter to the People of Scotland, against diminishing the number of the Lords of Session, published in 1785, there is the following passage, which, as a concise, and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter, I presume to quote: 'The Juries of England are Judges of law as well as of fact, in many civil, and in all criminals trials.
Thus Paley, in his charge in 1785, recommends 'the clergy who cannot talk to their parishioners, and non-resident incumbents, to distribute the tracts of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; and even so late as 1796 Bishop Horsley admits that 'many non-residents are promoting the general cause of Christianity, and perhaps doing better service than if they confined themselves to the ordinary labours of the ministry. He thinks it would be 'no less impolitic than harsh to call such to residence, and adds that 'other considerations make non-residence a thing to be connived at.
After making several voyages to Africa, which had been attended with much difficulty, trouble and loss, I received orders, in the month of June 1785, from Mons. le Marechal de Castries, Minister and Secretary of the Marine Department, to embark for the island of St Louis, in Senegal, in the Ship St Catherine, Captain le Turc commander, the same officer who gained so great a character last war, when commander of the Flessinguois.
Poelo-Penang, The Isle of the areca-nut, separated by a narrow strait from the Malay Peninsula, was ceded to England in 1785 by the Rajah of Kedah, from whom the present Sultan of Johore is lineally descended.
When Lord North opposed Pitt's reform in 1785 he said that the Constitution was 'the work of infinite wisdom ... the most beautiful fabric that had ever existed since the beginning of time. He added that 'the bulk and weight' of the house ought to be in 'the hands of the country-gentlemen, the best and most respectable objects of the confidence of the people, The speech, though intended to please an audience of country-gentlemen, represented a genuine belief.
Not having heard from him, I mention it to you, lest they should be stopped any where. I am, with great respect, Dear Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, Th: Jefferson. LETTER CXXXII. TO RICHARD O'BRYAN, November 4, 1785 Paris, November 4, 1785. Sir,
No definite commercial treaty between the two kingdoms was entered into until the Union, and there can be little doubt that the miscarriage of the Convention of 1785 was one of the determining causes of that Union. The next session was chiefly remarkable for an unsuccessful attempt to reduce the Pension List.
There it collected numerous relics of the wreck iron utensils, anchors, pulley-strops, swivel-guns, an 18 lb. shot, fragments of astronomical instruments, a piece of crown work, and a bronze clock, bearing this inscription "Bazin m'a fait," the mark of the foundry of the arsenal at Brest about 1785. There could be no further doubt.
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