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... returning in about a month , brought with him the Abbé Gaultier , and Mr. Mesnager , a minister from France , invested with full powers . This transaction not being avowed , Mackay , the master of the Dover packet - boat , either ...
... returning in about a month , brought with him the Abbé Gaultier , and Mr. Mesnager , a minister from France , invested with full powers . This transaction not being avowed , Mackay , the master of the Dover packet - boat , either ...
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... returned to power , was aggra- vated to a charge of high treason ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect answer to the report of the Committee of Secrecy , no treaty ever was made without private interviews and preliminary ...
... returned to power , was aggra- vated to a charge of high treason ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect answer to the report of the Committee of Secrecy , no treaty ever was made without private interviews and preliminary ...
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... returned then as soon as he could , and was welcomed on the 25th of March by a warrant , but was , however , suffered to live in his own house , under the custody of the messenger , till he was examined before a committee of the privy ...
... returned then as soon as he could , and was welcomed on the 25th of March by a warrant , but was , however , suffered to live in his own house , under the custody of the messenger , till he was examined before a committee of the privy ...
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... returned to power , and he was accordingly made secretary for the Island of Jamaica ; a place , I suppose , without trust or care , but which , with his post in the Customs , is said to have afforded him twelve hundred pounds a year ...
... returned to power , and he was accordingly made secretary for the Island of Jamaica ; a place , I suppose , without trust or care , but which , with his post in the Customs , is said to have afforded him twelve hundred pounds a year ...
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... returned home . In some part of his life , it is not known when , his indigence compelled him to teach a school , an humiliation with which , though it certainly lasted but a little while , his enemies did not forget to reproach him ...
... returned home . In some part of his life , it is not known when , his indigence compelled him to teach a school , an humiliation with which , though it certainly lasted but a little while , his enemies did not forget to reproach him ...
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