This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...of course, complete silence on the negotiation entered upon with regard to the right of search; but the committee appointed, in the Chamber of Deputies, to prepare the address in reply to the speech, knew and perfectly understood the new position; and in congratulating itself on the good intelligence which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...of course, complete silence on the negotiation entered upon with regard to the right of search; but the committee appointed, in the Chamber of Deputies, to prepare the address in reply to the speech, knew and perfectly understood the new position; and in congratulating itself on the good intelligence which prevailed between the two countries, added in a special paragraph; "This perfect understanding will, without doubt, aid the success of the negotiations, which, while guaranteeing the repression of an infamous traffic, must tend to replace our commerce under the exclusive protection of our own flag." The Chamber persisted thus in its desire for the abolition of the right of search, and at the same time signified its confidence in the cabinet charged to prosecute its accomplishment. This was distasteful to the opposition. M. Billault proposed an amendment which omitted all testimony of confidence in the cabinet, and declared that the good understanding between France and England, " had no chance of being durable, until the day when negotiations conducted with perseverance, should, while continuing to prosecute the suppression of an infamous traffic, replace French navigation under the exclusive superintendence of its own flag." I opposed this amendment formally. " I have taken the desire of the Chambers seriously," I said, " and at this moment, I give proof of it, for I accept fully the paragraph of your committee. That paragraph repeats textually the desire that French commerce should be replaced under the exclusive protection of our own flag. Since I accept this without objection, it is evident that this is the object I have in view. " At the same time that I am thus formal in the expression of my conduct, I affirm that I should fail in my...
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