Simmonds Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, Volume 4

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Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston
Foreign and Colonial Office, 1845
 

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Página 207 - Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and tribes of New Zealand and to the respective families and individuals thereof the full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates Forests Fisheries and other properties...
Página 221 - Congress, until the next apportionment of representation, shall be admitted into the Union, by virtue of this act, on an equal footing with the existing States...
Página 225 - ... itself, under the specious name of transporting free laborers from Africa to her West India possessions, in order, if possible, to compete successfully with those who have refused to follow her suicidal policy. But these all afford but uncertain and distant hopes of recovering her lost superiority. Her main reliance is on the other alternative, to cripple or destroy the productions of her successful rivals. There is but one way by which it can be done, and that is by abolishing African slavery...
Página 96 - Falconer, Thomas. On the Discovery of the Mississippi and on the South Western, Oregon, and North Western Boundary of the United States with a translation from the original MS. of Memoirs, etc.. relating to the discovery of the Mississippi, by Robert Cavelier de La Salle and the Chevalier Henry De Tonty.
Página 190 - The third principle is that neither individuals nor bodies of men belonging to any nation can form colonies, except with the consent and under the direction and control of their own Government ; and that from any settlement which they may form without the consent of their Government they may be ousted. This is simply to say, as far as Englishmen are concerned, that colonies can not be formed without the consent of the Crown.
Página 199 - Islands, on this 28th day of October, 1835, declare the Independence of our country, which is hereby constituted and declared to be an Independent State, under the designation of The United Tribes of New Zealand.
Página 491 - ... the most rugged mountains, scaling or descending the most frightful precipices, searching, by routes inaccessible to the horse, and never before trodden by white man, for springs and lakes unknown to his comrades, and where he may meet with his favorite game.
Página 48 - That the sweet poet spake of? — Had he seen Our variegated woods, when first the frost Turns into beauty all October's charms — When the dread fever quits us — when the storms Of the wild Equinox, with all its wet, Has left the land, as the first deluge left it, • With a bright bow of many colors hung Upon the forest tops — he had not sighed.
Página 157 - ... bays or indents of the coast, and consequently that no right exists on the part of American citizens, to enter the bays of Nova Scotia, there to take fish, although the fishing, being within the bay, may be at a greater distance than three miles from the shore of the bay; — as we are of opinion that the term
Página 119 - LORD : Agreeably to your excellency's desire, I have the honor to report such suggestions as appear to arise from the despatch of the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the colonies, dated...

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