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" Gentlemen, the real prosecutor is the master of the greatest empire the civilized world ever saw. The defendant is a defenceless proscribed exile. He is a French royalist, who fled from his country in the autumn of 1792 at the period of that memorable... "
The Trial of John Peltier: Esq., for a Libel Against Napoleon Buonaparté ... - Page 78
by Jean-Gabriel Peltier, James Adams - 1803 - 312 pages
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 5

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...defenceless proscribed exile. He is a French royalist, who fled from his country in the autumn of 1792 at the period of that memorable and awful emigration...ministers of religion, who fled from the ferocity of their countrymen as before an army of invading barbarians. The greatest part of these unfortunate exiles,...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 5

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 514 pages
...his country in the autumn of 1792 at the period of that memorable and awful emigration when all die proprietors and magistrates of the greatest civilized...ministers of religion, who fled from the ferocity of their countrymen as before an army of invading barbarians. The greatest part of these unfortunate exiles,...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...defenceless proscribed. e^ile. .He is a French royalist, who fled from his country in the autumn of 1792, at the period of that memorable and awful emigration, when all the proprietors and magistrates of the greate.st.civilized country of Europe were driven from their homes by the daggers of assassins; when...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Oratory - 1810 - 516 pages
...defenceless proscribed exile. He is a French royalist, who fled from his country in the autumn of 1792, at the period of that memorable and awful emigration,...ministers of religion, who fled from the ferocity of their countrymen as before an army of invading barbarians. " The greater part of these unfortunate...
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Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for ..., Volume 28

Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 738 pages
...defenceless proscribed exile. He is a French royalist, who fled from his country in the autumn of 1792, at the period of that memorable and awful emigration...all the proprietors and magistrates of the greatest civilised country of Europe were driven from their homes by the daggers of assassins; when our shores...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 28

Trials - 1820 - 742 pages
...defenceless proscribed exile. He is a French royalist, who fled from his country in the autumn of if!i,', ai the period of that memorable and awful emigration...all the proprietors and magistrates of the greatest civilised country of Europe were driven from their homes by the daggers of assassins ; when our shores...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - British - 1836 - 526 pages
...this court, his assailants before a tribunal of their country. M. Peltier had left France in 1792, " when our shores were covered, as with the wreck of a great tempest," and had supported himself, during the interval, by the fruit of his literary labour ; he was now amongst...
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Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1836 - 558 pages
...this court, his assailants before a tribunal of their country. M. Peltier had left France in 1792, " when our shores were covered, as with the wreck of a great tempest," and had supported himself, during the interval, by the fruit of his literary labour ; he was now amongst...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added, the ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...defenceless proscribed exile. He is a French royalist, who fled from his country in the autumn of 1792, at the period /of that memorable and awful emigration...ministers of religion, who fled from the ferocity of their countrymen as before an army of invading barbarians. The greatest part of these unfortunate exiles,...
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The Pictorial History of England During the Reign of George the Third: 1802-1820

George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1844 - 928 pages
...number of pamphlets. After the 10th of August, 1792, when the Bourbon monarchy was rent to pieces, and " when our shores were covered as with the wreck of a great tempest," he fled to England, and availed himself most actively, and to an immense extent, of our liberty of...
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