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" The disposal of the political prisoners was from the first a matter foreign to my mission. With a view to the more easy attainment of the great objects contemplated, that question ought to have been settled before my arrival. "
A History of the Late Province of Lower Canada, Parliamentary and Political ... - Page 223
by Robert Christie - 1866
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Annual Register, Volume 80

Edmund Burke - History - 1839 - 964 pages
...was a small, though essential part, has thus been defeated. " The disposal of the politicalprisoners was from the first a matter foreign to my mission. With a view to the mose easy attainment of the great objects contemplated, that question ought to have been settled before...
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The Preamble

312 pages
...some reason to complain. But why is the instance not adduced ? " that act was a small though essential part, has thus been " defeated. " The disposal of...to " the more easy attainment of the great objects contem" plated, that question ought to have been settled before " my arrival. But as it was essential...
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The Report and Despatches of the Earl of Durham: Her Majesty's High ...

John George Lambton Earl of Durham - Canada - 1839 - 452 pages
...authorities at home, has been annulled; and the entire policy, of which that act was a small though essential part, has thus been defeated. The disposal of the...But as it was essential to my plans for the future tranquillity and improvement of the colony, that I should commence by allaying actual irritation, 1...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 63

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 666 pages
...what he considers universal approbation in England. We now arrive at the defence of the Ordinance. ' The disposal of the political prisoners was, from...question ought to have been settled before my arrival.' — (ib.~) So it ought — and so it was ! till Lord Durham chose to unsettle it. Sir John Colborne's...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 63

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...what he considers universal approbation in England. We now arrive at the defence of the Ordinance. 1 The disposal of the political prisoners was, from...question ought to have been settled before my arrival.' — (ib.) So it ought — and so it was ! till Lord Durham chose to unsettle it. Sir John Colborne's...
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Annual Register, Volume 80

Edmund Burke - History - 1839 - 1184 pages
...the politicalprisoners was from the first a matter foreign to ray mission. With a view to the mose easy 'attainment of the great objects contemplated,...But, as it was essential to my plans for the future tranquillity and improveof the colony, that I should commence by allaying actual irrita-* tion, I had...
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The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence

Law - 1839 - 474 pages
...peace, welfare and good government of the colony. When, therefore, his ex-Excellency proclaims : " the disposal of the political prisoners was, from the first, a matter foreign to any mission" — we reply — " you are only right by accident, and then you correct yourself." An...
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A History of the Late Province of Lower Canada, Parliamentary and ..., Volume 5

Robert Christie - Québec (Province) - 1854 - 440 pages
...author!ties at home, has been annulled ; and the entire policy of which that act was a small though essential part, has thus been defeated. The disposal of the...With a view to the more easy attainment of the great ob jects contemplated, that question ought to have been settled before my arrival. But as it was essential...
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The age we live in: a history of the nineteenth century, Volume 2, Part 2

James Taylor - 1882 - 276 pages
...authorities at home, has been annulled, and the entire policy, of which that Act was a small though essential part, has thus been defeated. 'The disposal of the...a matter foreign to my mission. With a view to the most easy attainment of the great objects contemplated, that question ought to have been settled before...
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Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham, 1792-1840, Volume 2

Stuart Johnson Reid - Canada - 1906 - 546 pages
...authorities at home, has been annulled, and the entire policy of which that Act was a small, though essential part, has thus been defeated. ' The disposal of the...a matter foreign to my mission. With a view to the most easy attainment of the great objects contemplated, that question ought to have been settled before...
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