| Virgil McClure Harris - Wills - 1911 - 496 pages
...endeavored to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, of which he was pronounced innocent. Napoleon writes, " Cantillon had as much right to assassinate that oligarchist,...to send me to perish upon the rock of St. Helena." In the fifth codicil to the will is a reference to Empress Marie Louise, "my very dear and well beloved... | |
| Norwood Young - 1915 - 478 pages
...scoundrel. The last legacy in this codicil was : " Ten thousand francs to the sub-officer Cantillon, who has undergone a trial upon the charge of having endeavoured...innocent. Cantillon had as much right to assassinate that oligarch as the latter had to send me to perish upon the rock of St. Helena. Wellington, who proposed... | |
| Ivar L. Sjöström - 1928 - 154 pages
...a bequest to Cantillon with the notation "Cantillon had as much right to assassinate that oligarch, as the latter had to send me to perish upon the rock of St. Helena." Carnot, Lazare Nicolas 1753-1823 A French statesman and scientist. Member of the Legislative Assembly... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1841 - 622 pages
...24th April, 1821. — Item. I bequeath ten thousand francs to the subaltern officer Cantillon, who has undergone a trial upon the charge of having endeavoured...oligarchist, as the latter had to send me to perish on the rock of St. Helena!.'!' Dr. Henry was present at the post mortem examination, and at the request... | |
| Andrew Roberts - Generals - 2001 - 392 pages
...francs to the sub-officer Cantillon, who has undergone a trial upon the charge of having attempted to assassinate Lord Wellington, of which he was pronounced...innocent. Cantillon had as much right to assassinate that oligarch as the latter had to send me to perish upon the rock of St Helena. Wellington, who proposed... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1841 - 650 pages
...:— 24th April, 1821 Item. I bequeath 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 oligarchinl, as the loiter had lf> send me to perish on the rock of St. Helena ! ! .'" Dr. Henry was... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1841 - 412 pages
...of havinsr endeavored to assassinate Lord Wellington, of which he was pronounced innocent Cantallon had as much right to assassinate that Oligarchist, as the latter had to send me to perish on the rock of St. Helena,'" &c. ever for the good, for the good of his country and his race. It is... | |
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