A reply to two pamphlets, in answer to The question, why do we go to war?, temperately discussed, according to the official correspondence : one entitled The reason why, the other Observations suggested, &c.

  • William Burdon
Date:
1803
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Credit: A reply to two pamphlets, in answer to The question, why do we go to war?, temperately discussed, according to the official correspondence : one entitled The reason why, the other Observations suggested, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    i to fulfil the Treaty, because that power will not accept the guaranteeship, though the Treaty might , be completed as well without that power, and the rights stipulated for the Maltese undisputed and pre- served. In our ultimatum we endeavoured to place the island in the hands of the inhabitants, and abolish the Order. So we first abandoned the Maltese in i favour of the Order, then wish to abandon the Order in favour of the Maltese. I will not however go deeper into the dispute about the Maltese inhabitants, their sending deputies to London, or the Russian guarantee j for now | all further proceedings are stopped, the visible “ position of circumstances reversed, and we have j <c declared a resolution not to evacuate Malta till <c an adequate security is placed in our heads,” p. 43. What is it ? What phenomenon in nature can it be, that thus suddenly stops all proceeding, reverses I the position of the world, and makes us declare, Malta we have got, and Malta we will keep ? Why- nothing less than the notable report of Colonel Sebastiani 1 that rhodomontade, allowed by my other *| opponent, the author of “ Observations,” which <c showed the folly of the writer, and the detestation “ with which the name of Frenchman was held in <c Egypt, by proving that France wished still to w have partizans in that country, “ Observations,” Ip. 18 ; but which, according to the author of Reason Why,” was an outrage and aggression on the “ part of France, treated by me with unbecoming D 2 f< levity
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