...discovery; I had always imagined that in the celebrated speech to which the hon. Member alludes, Mr. Canning boasted that he had called the new world into existence to redress the balance of the old. It was a great political, and not a commercial measure, that Mr. Cunning prided...

...ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be ' Spain with the Indies.' I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old !" In the Lords, the Duke of Wellington spoke, in support of the ministerial address in reply to the royal...

...espoused the cause of the South American republics, he uttered the proud but most significant boast, that he had ' called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.' At that time, this statesman, who, more than any other that ever stood at the...

...triumphantly avowed his resolution, " that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain with the Indies ; that he had called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.7' But, sir, while she shows herself so submissive to European despotism, see how...

...have rendered impossible the vain-glorious boast in which he afterwards summed up his Spanish policy, that " he had called the new world into existence to redress the balance of the old." This recognition Mr. Canning refused, not only because it ran counter to the object...

...ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain with the Indies. I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the old." In a speech which he delivered at Plymouth occurs the famous passage in which he speaks of the pacific...

...ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain " with the Indies." I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.' In this celebrated speech, Mr Canning appears to take his stand where he avowed his wish that his country...

...Southern Europe and in America" — revolutions which gave rise to Canning's famous piece of clap-trap, that he had called the new world into existence to redress the balance of the old. The fourth volume is entitled V. " The Repression of the Revolutions in Italy and...

...enduring triumphs that history records — few can be found that exceed those of Cook. Canning claimed that he had ' called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old World ' ; but that was only a glittering and idle phrase. The seaman made a better...

...say no more of the mingled falsehood and sham sublimity expressed in Canning's avowal of his having called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. In July, 1822, Lord Londonderry brought forward a bill for abating the prevalent distress by a partial...