Remarks On The Proposals Made To Great Britain, For Opening Negotiations For Peace In The Year 1807..
Publisher
Printed by J. McCreery, Fleet-Street. For T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand.,
Date
1908
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 5 x 8 inches. xxxi + [i] + 88 pp. + [2] + 64 pp. appendix. Disbound pamphlet. Some foxing but otherwise a very good copy.
Notes
Early signature of A. Forrest at top of title. A pamphlet attacking Britain's foreign policy and expressing a wish for an honourable peace with France, requiring a more conciliatory policy on behalf of the Ministry. Its publication was occasioned by the military events of 1807. Britain's Fourth Coalition of 1806-07 against France collapsed following the occupation of Prussia after Jena and Auerst„dt and the defeat of Russia at Friedland leading to her Peace of Tilsit with France. In response to Napoleon's Continental System, the Royal Navy bombarded Copenhagen and seized the Danish fleet in November 1807. In the diplomatic correspondence with Austria and Russia reprinted from the State Papers in the Appendix, the Czar, in his first Declaration, expresses his indignation at 'this new outrage against Denmark.' Roscoe is similarly outraged by the attack upon Denmark, 'a measure, founded not only upon a total disregard to the acknowledged relations of civilized states, but in an intire disbelief, or an open defiance, of all those feelings of humanity and justice, which even the calamitous events of the present times have not wholly extinguished among mankind.' William Roscoe (1753-1831) of Allerton Hall, Liverpool was a historian and patron of the arts. He was briefly involved in politics and sat as MP for Liverpool, 1806-07. His vote for the abolition of the slave trade in the Commons ensured that his term of office as a representative of that slave trading city would be short. A scarce title
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