 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1835 - 542 pages
...indeed, as I believe, so far advanced as we should and ought to have been on the night of the 21st. ( I assure you, my dear Lord, matters are not prospering...However, I shall do whatever the Government may wish. ' Believe me, &c. ' Viscount Castlereagh.' ' ARTHUR WELLESLEY. Lieut. General the Hon. Sir A. Wellesley,... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1835 - 548 pages
...indeed, as I believe, so far advanced as we should and ought to have been on the night of the 21st. ' I assure you, my dear Lord, matters are not prospering...However, I shall do whatever the Government may wish. ' Believe me, &c. ' Viscount Castlereagh.' ' ARTHUR WELLESLEY. Lieut. General the Hon. Sir A. Wettesley,... | |
 | Basil Jackson - 1840 - 548 pages
...indeed, as I believe, so far advanced, as we should and ought to have been on the night of the 21st. " I assure you, my dear lord, matters are not prospering...However, I shall do whatever the government may wish.'' sir H.Dai- At noon on the 29th*, the period fixed for the M™nlfrS,&c. suspension of hostilities having... | |
 | Basil Jackson, Charles Rochfort Scott - Great Britain - 1840 - 546 pages
...indeed, as I believe, so far advanced, as we should and ought to have been on the night of the 21st. " I assure you, my dear lord, matters are not prospering...However, I shall do whatever the government may wish." sir H.Dai- At noon on the 29th*, the period fixed for the suspension of hostilities having elapsed,... | |
 | sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 534 pages
...shows his high sense of duty, and his desire of serving his country in whatever capacity he could : " I assure you, my dear lord, matters are not prospering...an earnest desire to quit the army. I have been too sueJ , • * 29th of August, 1808. f Camp. North of Torres Vedras, August 30, 1808. cessful with this... | |
 | 1842 - 840 pages
...my dear lord, natters are not prospering here ; and I feel u earnest desire to quit the army. I hatf been too successful with this army ever to serve with...it, and of course not to myself. However, I shall do what the goTernment may wish.' " Never, perhaps, was the national feeling so strongly excited by any... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1844 - 928 pages
...21st; that matters were not prospering ; that he felt an earnest desire to quit the army ; that he had been too successful with this army ever to serve with it in a subordinate situation. To a more private friend, he declared that he approved of the principal point in the convention, the... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1847 - 422 pages
...21st; that matters were not prospering; that he felt an earnest desire to quit the army ; that he had been too successful with this army ever to serve with it in a subordinate situation. The forts on the Tagus were taken possession of on the 2nd of September, by the British troops, and... | |
 | Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1851 - 512 pages
...indeed, as I believe, so far advanced, as we should and ought to have been on the night of the 21st. I assure you, my dear lord, matters are not prospering...subordinate situation with satisfaction to the person who will command it, and, of course, not to myself. However, I will do whatever the Government desire.... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851 - 414 pages
...21st; that matters were not prospering ; that he felt an earnest desire to quit the army ; that he had been too successful with this army ever to serve with it in a subordinate situation. The forts on the Tagus were taken possession of on the 2nd of September, by the British troops, and... | |
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I believe, so far advanced as we should and ought to have been on the night of the 21st. I assure you, my dear Lord, matters are not prospering here ; and I feel an earnest desire to quit the army. I have been too successful with this army ever to serve... 
