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Canning; and that I am equally free from the imputation of having entertained any political hostility towards him. I claim to myself the right of not being included in the number of Mr. Canning's enemies. House of Lords, February 25, 1828. Corn Law of 1828, Principle on which founded.
Wellesley, with a certain indolent nonchalance, characteristic of his correspondence with Pinkney, delayed to answer for two months, and then gave a reply as indifferent in manner as it was brief in terms. The phrase was Canning's, and summarized precisely the jealous attitude towards its own prestige characteristic of the British policy of the day.
Among other people before whom she came was Fielding, who examined her, as well as a young woman called Virtue Hall, who appeared subsequently as one of Canning's witnesses. In February, Wells and Squires were tried; Squires was sentenced to death, and Wells to imprisonment and burning in the hand.
England, under Canning's leadership, had separated herself from the Holy Alliance, and had almost as much reason as the United States to dread and dislike such a scheme as the Czar was supposed to meditate. Canning sent for the American Ambassador, and suggested a joint declaration against any adventures by European powers on the American Continent.
Methinks it is the test of Gothic sublimity to overpower the ridiculous without deigning to hide it; and these grotesque monuments of the last century answer a similar purpose with the grinning faces which the old architects scattered among their most solemn conceptions. Close at my elbow was the pedestal of Canning's statue.
Defeated and out of harness Journey to Italy Back in Parliament Canning's accession to power Bribery and corruption The repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts The struggle between the Court and the Cabinet over Catholic Emancipation Defeat of Wellington at the polls Lord John appointed Paymaster-General.
It may be mentioned here, although the fact is of little political importance, that Canning when he became Prime Minister made the Duke of Clarence Lord High Admiral. The office was probably bestowed as a token of Canning's gratitude to the King who had stood by him, not indeed to the last, but at the last.
By joining with Great Britain we would give her a "substantial and perhaps inconvenient pledge against ourselves, and really obtain nothing in return." He believed that it would be more candid and more dignified to decline Canning's overtures and to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France.
The girl regarded him. Hardly since the first moments in Kerr's apartment, had she heard that ironical note in Mr. Canning's voice; and yet she understood at once, and was not alarmed. Gently as she had removed herself, he had felt himself rebuffed; and he could be abrupt at his pleasure. Nothing good could come out of this horrid evening, but there would be another.
It is very likely that he was displeased by the pertinacity of the resistance which men like Wellington and Peel and Eldon offered to any act of policy approved by him, and he had undoubtedly by this time come to have a strong faith, not only in Canning's capacity, but also in Canning's good fortune.
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