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The Despatches and Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley During His Mission to Spain as Ambassador Extraordinary to the Supreme Junta in 1809

The Despatches and Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley During His Mission to Spain as Ambassador Extraordinary to the Supreme Junta in 1809

Wellesley, Richard Colley

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ISBN10: 1235753425
ISBN13: 9781235753428
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.19 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1838 Excerpt: ... and oppressive in its effects on the happiness and welfare of the people, and none more ruinous to the internal prosperity of the country, than the duty of enforcing the levies for the army on the frontier. I have already endeavoured to explain the system of exaction and extortion practised for the purpose of procuring the means of paying the armies upon the frontier, I have described its destructive operation upon every species of property, and upon every permanent resource of revenue; I have also stated to you the violence and rapine employed in order to supply those armies with provisions, with cloathing, and with every necessary store; and I have traced the operation of those measures upon the internal trade and cultivation of the country. I shall now show that the evils which attend the raising of this immense military force highly aggravate those by which it is maintained; and that the mere levy of these armies is in itself an oppression of the most grievous nature, and productive of the most pernicious consequences to the interests both of agriculture and commerce. The law for the requisition of the whole mass of the people, passed at the latter end of August. By this law every man in France from the age of eighteen to fifty is compelled to give his personal service in the army at the requisition of the National Commissioners. The rigour with which this law was executed, will appear from a resolution of the department of Herault sanctioned by the Convention, and since converted into a general law. Every father and mother shall be bound to declare the place of abode of their children summoned by requisition for the service of the army; every citizen is forbidden to harbour or conceal any persons under requisition. The soldiers of the revolutionary a...

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