The Life And Times of Queen Victoria, With Which is Incorporated "the Domestic Life of the Queen"
The book The Life And Times of Queen Victoria, With Which is Incorporated "the Domestic Life of the Queen" was written by author Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897 Here you can read free online of The Life And Times of Queen Victoria, With Which is Incorporated "the Domestic Life of the Queen" book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Life And Times of Queen Victoria, With Which is Incorporated "the Domestic Life of the Queen" a good or bad book?
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These attacks were futile, but to avoid the annoyance of litigation, the Government virtually bribed Messrs. Laird into silence by buying the rams for her Majesty's service. On the other hand, the partisans of the Northern States blamed the Government for beino- too generous in extending hospitality to the Southern cruisers, or " pirates," as they were termed by the extreme Radicals of the period. 212 THE LIFE .\JSrD TIMES OF QUEEN VICTOKIA. [1864. When the Georgia, a Confederate cruiser, which... had been built on the Clyde, and secretly equipped by a Liverpool firm, put into Liverpool, it was pointed out that she ought not to be treated as a ship of war. She had been prey- ing on the commerce of a friendly Power. Like a pii-ate, she had never taken her prizes to be condemned in a Prize Court, but had scuttled them on the high seas. She had never once been in any of the ports of the belligerent Power under whose flag she sailed, and altogether a very unpleasant prece- dent for a great Maritime State was being created by her reception at Liver- pool.
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