Memoirs, المجلد 6

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الصفحة 239 - ... immoveable, shall be respected; and they shall be at liberty either to accompany the French army or to remain in Portugal. In either case their property is guaranteed to them, with the liberty of retaining or of disposing of it, and passing the produce of the sale thereof into France, or any other country where they may fix their residence ; the space of one year being allowed them for that purpose. It is fully understood that...
الصفحة 237 - The French army shall carry with it all its equipments, and all that is comprehended under the name of property of the army, that is to say, its military chest and...
الصفحة 240 - XVIII. The Spanish troops detained on board ship in the port of Lisbon shall be given up to the Commander-in-chief of the British army, who engages to obtain of the Spaniards to restore such French subjects, either military or civil, as may have been detained in Spain, without being taken in battle, or in consequence of military operations, but on occasion of the occurrences of the 29th of last May, and the days immediately following.
الصفحة 239 - No native of Portugal shall be rendered accountable for his political conduct during the period of the occupation of this .country by the French army; and all those who have continued in the exercise of their employments, or who have accepted situations under the French government, are placed under the protection of the British commanders : they shall sustain no injury in their persons or property, it not having been at their option to be obedient, or not, to the French government...
الصفحة 24 - ... whom it was graced. This may easily be accounted for when it is recollected that almost all the French generals and the superior officers of the Imperial Guard had married for love, either in France or in other countries during their campaigns. I have already spoken of the elegance which embellished the Consular Court ; but we have now arrived at the period of the Empire when that elegance was doubled, nay tripled, in refinement and magnificence. The Emperor's desire was that his court should...
الصفحة 212 - A Spaniard, by the grace of God." — "What do you mean by that?" — "An honest man." — "Who is our enemy ? " — " The Emperor of the French." — " What is the Emperor Napoleon ? " — " A wicked being, the source of all evils, and the focus of all vices." — "How many natures has he?" — "Two: the human and the diabolical." — " How many Emperors of the French are there ? " — " One actually, in three deceiving persons.
الصفحة 239 - In either case their property is guaranteed to them, with the liberty of retaining or of disposing of it, and passing the produce of the sale thereof into France, or any other country where they may fix their residence, the space of one year being allowed them for that purpose. It is fully understood that shipping is excepted from this arrangement, only, however, in so far as regards leaving the port ; and that none of the stipulations above-mentioned can be made the pretext of any commercial speculation.—...
الصفحة 238 - Portugal, or accidentally in this country, shall be protected : their property of every kind, moveable and inimoveable, shall be respected : and they shall be at liberty either to accompany the French army, or to remain in Portugal. In either case their property is guaranteed to them ; with the liberty of retaining or of disposing of it, and passing the...
الصفحة 236 - All the places and forts in the kingdom of Portugal, occupied by the French troops, shall be delivered up to the British army in the state in which they are at the period of the signature of the present Convention. ART.
الصفحة 411 - ... threw her into it, after lacerating her with more than a hundred sabre strokes. ' She uttered not a groan. As for the child, it was the first victim. Twenty-two men were destroyed by this exploit, — which I cannot call otherwise than great and heroic. The commander himself told me he escaped by miracle. The persuasion that the bed of death would be disturbed in search of booty was indeed holding us as savages ; and such was the impression produced by the man who could command : " Let no sanctuary...

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