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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1845. Excerpt: ... *' When the prisoners were landed, multitudes of the citizens of Falmouth, excited by curiosity, crowded together to see us, which was equally gratifying to us. I saw numbers of people on the top of houses, and the rising adjacent grounds were covered with them of both sexes. The throng was so great that the king's officers were obliged to draw their swords, and force a passage to Pendennis castle, which was near a mile from the town where we were closely confined, in consequence of orders from 'Gen. Carlton, who then commanded in Canada. The rascally Brook Watson then set out for London in great haste, expecting the reward of his zeal; but the ministry received him, as I have been since informed, rather coolly--for the minority in parliament took advantage, arguing that the opposition of America to Great Britain, was not a rebellion. If it is, (say they) why do you not execute Col. Allen according to law? But the majority argued that I ought to be executed, and that the opposition was really a rebellion-- but that policy obliged them not to do it, inasmuch as the Congress had then most prisoners in their power--so that my being sent to England for the purpose of being executed, and necessity restraining them, was rather a foil on their laws and authority, and they consequently disapproved of my being sent thither. But I never had heard the least hint of those debates in parliament, or of the working of their policy, until some time after I left England. Consequently the reader will readily conceive I was anxious about my preservation, knowing that I was in the power of a haughty and cruel nation, considered as such. Thefefore the first proposition which I determined in my own mind was, that humanity and moral suasion would not be consulted in the determining of my fate. And those ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151526786
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151526789
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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