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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke, Edmund, 1730-1797 (search)
ands. A fine body of precedents for the authority of Parliament and the use of it! I admit it fully; and pray add likewise to these precedents that all the while Wales rid this kingdom like an incubus; that it was an unprofitable and oppressive burthen; and that an Englishman travelling in that country could not go six yards fromat. eight years after — that is, in the thirty-fifth of that reign — a complete and not ill-proportioned representation by counties and boroughs was bestowed upon Wales by act of Parliament. From this moment, as by a charm, the tumult subsided, obedience was restored, peace, order, and civilization followed in the train of libert palatine of Chester received the same relief from its oppression, and the same remedy to its disorders. Before this time Chester was little less distempered than Wales. The inhabitants, without rights themselves, were the fittest to destroy the rights of others: and from thence Richard II. drew the standing army of archers, wit
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peacock, the (search)
three sails to the windward, under convoy of an armed brig of large dimensions. The two war-vessels made for each other, and very soon a close and severe battle ensued. the Peacock was so badly injured in her rigging at the beginning that she was compelled to fight running at large, as the phrase is. She could not manoeuvre much, and the contest became one of gunnery. the Peacock won the game at the end of forty minutes. Her antagonist, which proved to be the Épervier, eighteen guns, Captain Wales, struck her colors. She was badly injured, no less than forty-five round-shot having struck her hull. Twenty-two of her men were killed or wounded. Only two of the Peacock's men were wounded; and so little was she injured that an hour after the battle she was in perfect fighting order. The Épervier sold for $55,000, and on board of her was found $118,000 in specie. She was such a valuable prize that Warrington determined to take her into Savannah himself. On the way, when abreast