This is indeed a maxim of general application... Nations cannot be…

To assist the Spaniards is morally and politically one of the highest duties a nation ever had to perform.

Wellesley's success...appears to have been nothing more than an affair of a rear-guard, and is ridiculously magnified.

Mr. Grey was much obliged to his hon. friend for submitting the motion to the House. The length of time during which the nation had groaned under such vexatious and tyrannical institutions, was with him a reason why they should exist no …

[The Spanish news] really keeps me awake at night and in the day I can think of nothing else. I did not think it possible that anything could have made me regret being out of office, but I now wish I was in a situation, in which it might …

Bad as I am thought, I cannot express the horror I feel at this atrocity.

[T]he French are on the point of making a great effort in Portugal...which Lord Wellington...will find himself unable to resist. But even if such an effort could not take place or should not succeed, I am convinced the period when we shall …