Nothing could better illustrate the rash, overconfident spirit in which Howe proceeded to carry out his southern scheme.
He decided to go around to Philadelphia by sea, but he was slow in starting, and seems to have paused for a moment to watch the course of events at the north.
His next plan coincided remarkably with the other half of Lee's scheme.
Many national Governments seemed unable adequately to respond; and, often with the improvident assent of the masses of the people themselves, new forms of government were set up with oligarchy taking the place of democracy.
On the last day of July, Lord Monteagle brought forward, in the House of Lords, a motion for the employment of the people of Ireland, of which he had given notice whilst the Peel Government were yet in office.
At the same time certain privileges of self-government were granted to the towns, representatives from which were summoned to sit in the diet.
His ideas of government were those of an absolute monarch, and he probably wished to surround himself with some of the pomp which had encircled the older emperors of Rome.
The despatch continued that "Her Majesty's Government were aware of the great value which the French Government had attached in the past to the Dual Control.
It was certainly matter of great importance where the different powers of Government were placed, and caused considerable debates in the convention.
All the efforts of the opposition to thwart the measures of government were, indeed, futile: the propriety and necessity of war were acknowledged by the great majority of the nation, as well as of the members of parliament.
The result was, that the stadtholder was not only reinstated in his former privileges, but gratified with new, and that the ancient forms of government were re-established.
The effective branches of government were, almost from the first, engrossed by Napoleon.
If the Tycoon's government wereto inquire what view they took of the question, they would reply ambiguously.
They were brought up in complete ignorance of the outer world, and the strings of government were pulled by the unseen hands of obscure functionaries who obtained their appointments by force of their personal qualities.
This ultimatum included a form of apology to be published on a specified date by the Servian Government, and ten engagements which the Servian Government were to give the Austro-Hungarian Government.
These forms of government were not in universal use, but are as nearly typical as can be found, as the cities varied much in governmental practice.
All kinds of government were exercised in Greece, from the democracy to the hereditary monarchy.
It appears, therefore, that the first attempts at local self-government were made in the cities and towns.
Her Majesty's Government were in effect in a very bad mess.
Most details of government were transacted in their offices.
By this act the officers of government were liable to some responsibility, and in several instances were cast in damages, notwithstanding the efforts of the crown to defend them.
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