 | 1822 - 496 pages
...folly, when a deputation of the city bad made representations to him against the admiral, blurted out, " Oh ! indeed he shall be tried immediately, he shall be hanged directly." As the day approached for the execution of the admiral, symptoms of ah extraordinary nature discovered... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Admirals - 1839 - 532 pages
...when a deputation from the city had made representations to him against the admiral, blustered out, ' Oh, indeed, he shall be tried immediately, he shall be hanged directly.' " Newcastle was in the habit of uttering foolish things, but Walpole himself, or some of his city friends,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Admirals - 1839 - 536 pages
...when a deputation from the city had made representations to him against the admiral, blustered out, ' Oh, indeed, he shall be tried immediately, he shall be hanged directly.'" Newcastle was in the habit of uttering foolish things, but Walpole himself, or some of his city friends,... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 562 pages
...from justice." To a deputation from the city which waited on himself, he blurted out, we are told, " Oh, indeed he shall be tried immediately, he shall be hanged directly." — Walpole, u. 70. He was brought before a court-martial on board the St. George, at Portsmouth (Dec.... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...ought not to excuse : " Oh, indeed, he shall be " tried immediately ; he shall be hanged directly ! " * On the same principle he attempted to cajole Fox into...General Fowke, on the contrary, was brought to trial for disobedience of orders, and being found guilty was dismissed the service. But previously and chiefly,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1844 - 608 pages
...ought not to excuse : " Oh, indeed, he shall be " tried immediately ; he shall be hanged directly ! " * On the same principle he attempted to cajole Fox into assuming the main responsibility .f On all possible points was the popular impulse flattered and complied with. No sooner had General... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Great Britain - 1846 - 446 pages
...folly, when a deputation of the city had made representations to him against the Admiral, blurted out, " Oh! indeed he shall be tried immediately— he shall be hanged directly." While England was thus taken up with the contemplation of her own losses and misconduct, a vaster war,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 446 pages
...and, above all, the largest vials of popular wrath were poured on the devoted head of Byng. The only doubt with the nation seemed to be whether he was...he attempted to cajole Fox into assuming the main responsibility-J On all possible points was the popular impulse flattered and complied with. No sooner... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 608 pages
...ought not to excuse : " Oh, indeed, he shall be " tried immediately ; he shall be hanged directly! "* On the same principle he attempted to cajole Fox into assuming the main responsibility.t On all possible points was the popular impulse flattered and complied with. No sooner... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 602 pages
...punishment, that nobleman, with an indelicacy so gross as to be now scarce credible, blurted out : ' Oh ! indeed he shall be tried immediately ; he shall be hanged directly !' The more to inflame the mob against him, ho was conveyed under a strict guard to Greenwich, and... | |
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Blakeney landed with his garrison at Portsmouth than he was created an Irish Baron. General Fowke, on the contrary, was brought to trial for dis* H. 
