 | English literature - 1863 - 634 pages
...And to thy secret self with pleasure say, Kejoice, my heart, for all went well to-day '." he said, "had as much right to assassinate that oligarchist as the latter had to send me to perish on the rock of St. Helena;" a statement, as Scott has remarked, striking not merely for its atrocity,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 pages
...ten thousand francs, is perhaps the most despicable of all his petty crimes. " Cantillon," he said, " had as much right to assassinate that oligarchist as the latter had to send me to perish on the rock of St. Helena ;" a statement, as Scott has remarked, striking not merely for its atrocity,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 436 pages
...covering us with his body. 5. Item. Ten thousand francs to the subaltern officer Cantillon, who has undergone a trial, upon the charge of having endeavoured...assassinate Lord Wellington, of which he was pronounced mnocent. Cantillon had as much iu;lit to assassinate that oliyarchist, as the latter had to send me... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1875 - 418 pages
...covering us with his body. 5. Item. Ten thousand francs to the subaltern officer Cantillon, who has undergone a trial, upon the charge of having endeavoured...innocent. Cantillon had as much right to assassinate that oligarch !st, as the latter had to send me to perish upon the rock of St. Helena. Wellington, who proposed... | |
 | Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) - 1884 - 592 pages
...given to sub-officer Cantillon, "tried on the charge of having endeavoured to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, of which he was pronounced innocent. Cantillon...to send me to perish upon the rock of St. Helena." The Duke of 1 Fleury de Chaboulon tells us that Lavalette said to Napoleon as Phocion said to Antipater,... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1885 - 610 pages
...5. Item. Ten thousand francs to the subaltern officer, Cantillon, who has undergone a trial upon a charge of having endeavoured to assassinate Lord Wellington,...Wellington, who proposed this outrage, attempted to justify it by pleading the interest of Great Britain. Cantillon, if he had really assassinated that lord, would... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1885 - 356 pages
...and acquitted, upon a charge of attempting to assassinate the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon added that Cantillon had as much right to assassinate that oligarchist as the latter had to send him to perish upon the rock of St. Helena. 2 By permission of the English Government his remains were... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - 1886 - 352 pages
...Cantillon, ' who has undergone a -ETAT. 5i.] His Burial. 233 trial upon the charge of having endeavored to assassinate Lord Wellington, of which he was pronounced...to send me to perish upon the rock of St. Helena.' He was buried at Longwood in St. Helena; but in the reign of Louis Philippe his remains were removed... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 924 pages
...added a truly Corsican touch, bequeathing 10,000 francs to the subaltern officer Cantillon, "who has undergone a trial upon the charge of having endeavoured...to send me to perish upon the rock of St Helena." He was buried at Longwood in St Helena ; but in the reign of Louis Philippe his remains were removed... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Ramsay Weston Phipps - 1889 - 490 pages
...5. Item. Ten thousand franca to the subaltern officer, Cant il Ion, who has undergone a trial upon a charge of having endeavoured to assassinate Lord Wellington,...Wellington, who proposed this outrage, attempted to justify it by pleading the interest of Great Britain. Cantillon, if he had really assassinated that lord, would... | |
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Cantillon, who has undergone a trial upon a charge of having endeavoured to assassinate Lord Wellington, of which he was pronounced innocent. Cantillon had as much right to assassinate that oligarchist as the latter had to send me to perish upon the rock... 
