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While he was at Whitehall, he entertained proposals from the royalists, consented to accept a title and twenty thousand pounds a year, and designed to escape to the fleet under Montague, but was too strictly watched to effect his purpose. Clar. But the principal source of disquietude still remained.
They wished to insist on David leaving for America. He refused. They contented themselves with Belgium. On the 19th December he reached Brussels. He came to see me, and said to me, "I am lodging at the Grand Monarque, 89, Rue des Fripiers." And he added laughing, "The Great Monarch the King. The old clothesmen the Royalists, '89. The Revolution." Chance occasionally furnishes some wit.
"And how will the lot of ye live, man?" asked Clowes, crossly. "Hast not had word that Jersey has enacted a general act of forfeiture and escheatage 'gainst all Royalists?" "That I'd not," answered the squire, pulling a long face. "I suppose that has taken Greenwood from us?" "Ay, for I saw the very advertisement of the sale, and have not told ye before merely to spare you distress.
In 1801, he was made the commander-in-chief in the Western Department, where he exercised the greatest barbarities against the inhabitants, whom he accused of being still chouans and royalists. With Augereau and Massena, Bernadotte is a merciless plunderer.
Symptoms of moderation, or any conciliatory measures we might be inclined to show, of our free will, to the constitutionalists, would be immediately considered as a desertion of our supporters, and treachery to ourselves, by the royalists.
It was willing, and chaffered only for a very short respite. What else was the 29th of January, 1849, than the "coup d'etat" of December 2, 1851, only executed by the royalists with Napoleon's aid against the republican National Assembly?
When off Hedic, Admiral Harvey sent the Orion to join Commodore Sir John Borlase Warren, with that part of the convoy intended to act with the royalists, while he proceeded with the rest to the West Indies. The troops were landed.
And Franklin's testimony confirms that of the English Governor. "The true loyalists," he says, "were the people of America against whom the royalists of England acted.
The Legislative Assembly, formed of new men, presented quite a special interest from the psychological point of view. Few assemblies have offered in such a degree the characteristics of the political collectivity. It comprised seven hundred and fifty deputies, divided into pure royalists, constitutional royalists, republicans, Girondists, and Montagnards.
When Bolivar arrived at the point in question with the army, he found that there were no boats ready. When Paez was questioned by the Libertador, he replied: "Oh, yes, Sir, I am counting on the boats." "But where are they?" Bolivar asked. "The enemy has them," said Paez, indicating some royalists' launches and canoes across the river.
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