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Page 479 - The Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag.
Page 297 - A ship canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, if such a work were practicable, would be a different thing; and it is needless to point out how such a work, changing as it would the relative position of some of the maritime powers of Europe towards each other, would involve the possibility of political consequences of great import and might seriously affect the foreign relations of the Turkish Empire.
Page 8 - King, that there shall be a reciprocal and entirely perfect liberty of navigation and commerce between the subjects of each party in all and every the kingdoms, states, provinces, and territories subject to their Majesties, in Europe, for all and singular kinds of goods...
Page 272 - With Russia we are just as we were, snarling at each other, hating each other, but neither wishing for war. Their last communication on Eastern affairs is anything but satisfactory. However, there is nothing at present done by us, because there is * About Luxembourg.
Page 199 - ... out, on which was a battery for five or six guns, now in ruins. The water of Aden is good, and the climate healthy. The harbour of Aden is excellent, and ruins of great extent prove that it was once a mart of great importance. It might again, under good management, be made the port of export for coffee, gums and spices of Arabia, and the channel through which the produce of England and India might be spread through the rich provinces of Yemen and Hadhar-el-mout. The trade with the African coast...
Page 363 - The realization of the great work destined to give new facilities to commerce and for navigation by the cutting of a Canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea being one of the most desirable events in this age of science and of progress, conferences have been had for some time past with the Company which asks authority to execute this work, and they have ended in a manner conformable, as regards the present and the future, with the sacred rights of the Porte, as well as with those of the Egyptian...
Page 169 - ... as well as the manifest advantages, facilities, and cheapness of this line of communication. The hurricane has been, it is true, a most trying and calamitous event ; but, I believe, it is regarded by all, even at this early day, as having no more to do with the navigation of the Euphrates in other...
Page 198 - The establishment of a monthly communication by steam with the Red Sea, and the formation of a flotilla of armed steamers, renders it absolutely necessary that we should 'have a station of our own on the coast of Arabia, as we have in the Persian Gulf; and the insult which has been offered to the British flag by the Sultan of Aden...
Page 192 - Lives of Indian Officers, illustrative of the History of the Civil and Military Service of India. Three Vols, crown 8vo, 6s. each. KING OF LOVE (THE). By the Author of
Page 113 - Committee be appointed to inquire into the present state of the Affairs of the East India Company, and into the Trade between Great Britain, the East Indies, and China ; and to report their observations thereupon to the House.