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accredited addressed Altesse ambassador appointed arrest attachés audience Austria autres bien Britain British Callières Ceremonies Chargé d'affaires considération convention Court credentials despatch deux diplo diplomatic agent Diplomatic Body diplomatic representative diplomatist droit Duke embassy Emperor Empress England English être fait Flassan Foreign Affairs Foreign Office France French ambassador Frère full-power German Government Grand Hannis Taylor Head honour Ibid immunities Imperial instructions jurisdiction King King of France l'Ambassadeur l'Empereur l'honneur language legation letter letters of credence London Lord Louis XV Madrid Maître Majesté Martens Martens-Geffcken ment Minister for Foreign mission Monsieur Nations negotiations Note Verbale nuncio occasion Palais Palmerston Paris person Powers precedence present Prince privileges qu'il rank received reçu refused reply Republic resident respect right of asylum Royal Russian sador Salutes Schmelzing secrétaires Secretary sent souverains sovereign Spain Spanish tion titre traité treaty Tsar ultimatum United Uti possidetis Vienna
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Page 110 - Don Fernando, Por la gracia de Dios Rey de Castilla, de León, de Aragón, de las dos Sicilias, de Jerusalem, de Navarra, de Granada, de Toledo, de Valencia, de Galicia, de Mallorca, de Sevilla, de Cerdeña, de...
Page 241 - State, or by any judge or justice therein respectively, whereby the person of any ambassador or other public minister of any foreign prince or State, authorized and received as such by the President of the United States...
Page 166 - ... was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his albo — a book of white paper, which for that purpose many of the German gentry usually carry about them — and Sir Henry Wotton consenting to the motion, took an occasion, from some accidental discourse of the present company, to write a pleasant definition of an ambassador in these very words : "Legatus est vir bonus, peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have...
Page 115 - India, etc., etc., etc. To all and Singular to whom these Presents shall come, GREETING : Whereas for the...
Page 169 - I confess has often happened undesigned) by speaking plainly; as Earl Stanhope used to say (during his ministry) he always imposed on the foreign ministers by telling them the naked truth, which, as they thought impossible to come from the mouth of a statesman, they never failed to write information to their respective courts directly contrary to the assurances he gave them.
Page 115 - ... all manner of power and authority to treat, adjust, and conclude with such minister or ministers as may be vested with similar power...
Page 334 - November last, and his assurance that the delay to which it was subjected proceeded from causes which he could not remove. " .Recent events, it is confidently hoped, have removed the probability of any recurrence of the interruption of free correspondence. And Count Bismarck's assurance to Mr. Washburne that 'the delay occurring now and then in the transmission of your dispatch-bag is not occasioned by any doubt as to the right of your Government to correspond with you, but by obstacles it was out...
Page xxiii - Diplomacy is the application of intelligence and tact to the conduct of official relations between the governments of independent states...
Page 251 - Whenever any writ or process is sued out or prosecuted by any person in any court of the United States, or of a State, or by any judge or justice , whereby the person of any ambassador or public minister of any foreign prince or State, authorized and received as such by the President, or any domestic or domestic servant of any such minister, is arrested or imprisoned, or his goods or chattels are distrained, seized, or attached, such writ or process shall be deemed void...
Page 272 - The person of a diplomatic agent, his personal effects, and the property belonging to him as representative of his sovereign, are not subject to taxation. Otherwise he enjoys no exemption from taxes or duties as of right. By courtesy, however, most, if not all, nations permit the entry free of duty goods intended for his private use.