Crimes in High Life: Some Society Causes Célèbres, Volume 1Dodd, Mead, 1927 - 310 páginas |
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Crimes in High Life: Some Society Causes Célèbres, Volume 1 Horace Wyndham Visualização integral - 1927 |
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11th Hussars accused action admiral Alfred de Vidil alleged answer appeared appointed Baron de Vidil Bill Blood Bow Street called Captain Colborne Captain Reynolds Captain Tuckett charge co-respondent Codrington Colonel Anderson conduct considered counsel couple course Court declared divorce Duke Earl of Cardigan Elizabeth Campbell England enquired evidence fact fashion feelings followed friends gentleman Governor Wall guilty happened Hardinge heard hearing heart honour husband John judge jury justice Lady Elgin Lady Ellenborough Lavalette letter lived London Lord Cardigan Lord Elgin Lord Ellenborough Lord Palmerston lordship marriage married Mildmay military Miss Faithfull morning never O'Kane officer once pamphlet Paris Pergami petitioner Phineas Davis Prince Schwarzenberg prisoner proceedings prosecution Queen Caroline regiment result returned Robert Ferguson Robert Phillimore Royal secure Sir Robert Wilson Sir William solicitor soon stop Thereupon Thomas Blood thousand pounds took trial Twickenham wanted wife witnesses woman wrote young
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Página 19 - Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ?
Página 53 - Most gracious Queen, we thee implore To go away and sin no more; But, if that effort be too great, To go away at any rate.
Página 34 - I had reason to flatter myself that the lords commissioners would not have given in the report, before they had been properly informed of various circumstances, which must, for a feeling and delicate-minded woman, be very unpleasant to have spread, without having the means to exculpate herself. But...
Página 48 - ... subject of any civil right; ridiculous, to establish the least offence ; scandalous, to support a charge of the highest nature ; monstrous, to ruin the honour of the Queen of England. What shall I say of it, then, as evidence to support a judicial act of legislature, an ex-post facto law ? My lords, I call upon you to pause.
Página 48 - ... adorn it — save the crown, which is threatened with irreparable injury — save the aristocracy, which is surrounded with danger — save the altar, which is no longer safe when its kindred throne is shaken. You see that when the church and the throne would allow of no church solemnity in behalf of the Queen, the heartfelt prayers of the people rose to Heaven for her protection. I pray Heaven for her ; and I...
Página 314 - Highness cannot admit that any 313 circumstance could justify a British officer in having obtained, under false pretences, passports in feigned names from the representative of his own Sovereign ; and in having made use of such passports for himself and a subject of his Most Christian Majesty, under sentence for high treason, disguised in a British uniform, not only to elude the vigilance of the French Government, but to carry him in such disguise through the British lines.
Página 209 - Not, however, difficult to understand, since it was merely written backwards : " Do, for Heaven's sake, send them something, or they must die for want, or meet with an untimely grave. What a dreadful thought ! What a dreadful end, after all that has been suffered for them ! " But the appeal fell on deaf ears. Even when the unhappy woman was arrested for debt and lodged in the Calton Jail at Edinburgh, and her little girls had to go to the workhouse, Sir Richard (for he had succeeded to the baronetcy,...
Página 77 - We have had under our consideration at the Cabinet the unfortunate subject of the conduct of Lord Cardigan.* The public feeling upon it is very strong, and it is almost certain that a Motion will be made in the House of Commons for an Address praying your Majesty to remove him from the command of his regiment.
Página 44 - ... ignominy. Was it too much to ask that one moment's needless delay should not occur, that the Queen might know her accusers, see the witnesses, prove their infamy, and establish her own purity ? As to the mode of proceeding, it was her Majesty's pleasure that her counsel should urge, as indispensable, that she should be furnished with a list of the witnesses against her : it was, in fact, so obviously necessary, that he could conceive nothing more alarming, than that any one who might sit in judgment...
Página 69 - Blood that wears treason in his face, Villain complete in parson's gown, How much is he at Court in grace For stealing Ormond and the Crown? Since loyalty does no man good, Let's steal the King and outdo Blood.