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Burke's endeavours to stay the policy that was driving the American colonies to revolution, caused the State of New York, in 1771, to nominate him as its agent. About May, 1769, Edmund Burke began the pamphlet here given, Thoughts on the Present Discontents. It was published in 1770, and four editions of it were issued before the end of the year.
"The first of my line that I know anything about was a lieutenant in the force that marched overland from Mexico to California under command of Don Gaspar de Portola. Don Gaspar was accompanied by Fray Junipero Serra. They carried a sword and a cross respectively, and arrived in San Diego on July first, 1769. So, you see, I'm a real Californian." "You mean Spanish-Californian."
Thomas Pennant, who travelled in Perthshire in the year 1769, tells us that "on the first of May, the herdsmen of every village hold their Bel-tien, a rural sacrifice.
Having taken "sweet counsel" with the powerful heads of his company, he freely gave me all his influence with the king. Fortune sent me an auxiliary not less influential than these two gentlemen; I mean the marechal duc de Richelieu. In the month of January, 1769, he returned from his government of Guienne to enter on service.
It was in September of the year 1769 just forty-eight years ago as I write that I found myself once again in New Orleans, feeling almost a stranger to the town, except for the few rough flatboat-men in company with whom I had floated down the great river.
Saturday 14. I was visited today by a very old man, an uncle to Tupia, the person who went from these islands in the Endeavour in the year 1769, and who died at Batavia. He appeared to be near 70 years old and was treated with much respect by the natives. He made several enquiries concerning his nephew and requested that when I came again I would bring his hair.
Our commander took this occasion to preserve the memory of the prior visits of the English, by inscribing, on the other side of the post, Georgius tertius Rex. Annis 1767, 1769, 1773, 1774, & 1777.
I am, With the greatest esteem and respect, GENTLEMEN, Your most humble And obedient servant, JOSHUA REYNOLDS A DISCOURSE Delivered at the Opening of the Royal Academy, January 2nd, 1769, by the President. Gentlemen, An academy in which the polite arts may be regularly cultivated is at last opened among us by royal munificence.
Flourishing cities have been built on its rich soil; large portions of it have been brought under cultivation; gold-mines have been discovered; churches and schools have been erected, and many of the natives have become partially civilised. Very different indeed was the state of things when Captain Cook first drew near to its shores in the year 1769.
Cuvier and Smith were exact contemporaries, both men having been born in 1769, that "fertile year" which gave the world also Chateaubriand, Von Humboldt, Wellington, and Napoleon. But the French naturalist was of very different antecedents from the English surveyor.
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