 | John Booth - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1815 - 198 pages
...British people. I claim from your Royal Highness the protection of the laws, and throw myself upon the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies, i : . «' NAPOLEON." '•!• it -i - . .. • . . ..:..•••: ,1 ,.,-... ' .'• • '• . '... | |
 | J. W. Robertson - 1815 - 850 pages
...place my self under the protection of its laws, which (protection) I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. 'Roche/art, \3thJuly, 1815.' 'NAPOLEON.' This letter was immediately sent on board the English vessel,... | |
 | Edmund Boyce - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1816 - 480 pages
...career, and i come, like Themistocles, to throw myself on the hospitality of the British nation. I place myself under the safeguard of their laws, and...Royal Highness, the most powerful, the most constant, the most generous of my enemies. NAPOLEON*." Rochefort, 13th July. * The reader is here presented with... | |
 | 1816 - 926 pages
...people. I pjk\c» myself nnder the protection of their laws, which I claim of vour Royal High, ness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies." Bourdeanx, Thoulnuse, Strasbargh, with many other of the frontier fortresses, are still held by the... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 690 pages
...people. I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your royal highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. " Rochefort, July 13." His allusion to the illustrious Athenian was at once a confession of his errors,... | |
 | Christopher Kelly - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1817 - 550 pages
...career, and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself on the hospitality of the British nation. I place myself under the safeguard of their laws, and...of Buonaparte. The former had been the saviour of his country, and had made her mistress of Greece. In the very zenith of her prosperity, sha became... | |
 | Europe - 1817 - 398 pages
...nation. 1 place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. " NAPOLEON. " Rochefort, 13th July." The Bellerophon was immediately ordered round to Plymouth, with strict orders... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1817 - 738 pages
...nation. 1 place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as toe most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. " NAPOLEON. " Rochefort, ISth July." The Bellerophon was immediately orderedround to Plymouth, with strict orders... | |
 | 728 pages
...nation. I placr .ny self under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your royal highness, as the most' powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. (Signed) NAPOLEON." "Roehefort, July 13, 1815." Upon the arrival of the Bellerophon at Torbay, Captain... | |
 | Europe - 1817 - 736 pages
...nation. I place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your royal highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. (Signed) NAPOLEON." « Rochefort, July 13, 1815." Upon the arrival of the Bellerophon at Torbay, Captain... | |
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I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous, of my enemies. 
