#Orford Express

[guerrerense]

The Orford Express under Mont-Orford por Michael Berry Por Flickr: With its namesake Mont-Orford looming in the background, the Orford Express is crossing the Eastman trestle before changing directions and heading east to Sherbrooke. Leading is the only FL9 in use in Canada.

[mvcrystalsea]

Ship’s Blog

MV Crystal Sea is a 1968 Express Cruiser designed by William Garden and built at Philbrooks in Sydney BC.

She is 53′0″ LOA and 49′ at the waterline. Her beam is 16′6″ and she weighs 32 tons. 

She is powered by twin 1968 Cummins V903 Turbo Diesels with each approaching 4300hrs. 

She is built of Port Orford cedar, diagonally planked and epoxied, fastened with silicone bronze fasteners. 

She carries 1100 gallons of diesel fuel and 360 gallons of fresh water. 

She has two cabins, one with two singles and a full head with shower, and a master with a queen size and a full head with shower.

She sports a full-width saloon, an “apartment” style galley and a generous aft deck, partially covered, with engine controls.

She has a fully functioning Portuguese bridge with steering station and engine controls, and a large all glass pilothouse with seating and lounging space for 8.

[a-royal-obsession]

Princess Elizabeth to the Prince of Wales

Queen’s Lodge, Windsor, 6 Aug. 1795

Your most kind affectionate letter I received, my most beloved brother, the day before yesterday as I was going to dinner, so had not time to read it till late that day, & yesterday being out the whole day with mama & my sisters, partly at Frogmore & breakfasting at Lady Newhaven’s, I had no opportunity of communicating your amiable & truly affectionate expressions to mama but by word of mouth, but whenever we have leisure (which you know is seldom) I think it would be acting a most unsisterly part by you did I not shew your letter to her, as it conveys such sentiments which nothing that I could say could do justice too.

You may easily conceive that the choice you have been so very kind as to make concerning Lady Dashwood* deserves from me more thanks & gratitude than I am able to express, & I am certain will be most flattering to her, though at the same time I think it but just by her to say that I am certain it is a situation which she will never understand without considering most thoroughly if she thinks herself able to go through with it as she ought, for I know her so perfectly well that you may be certain that if she does accept of it it will be from thinking that she can undertake it conscienciously & totally devote herself to it, but having given up the world for some years when you have it named to her you must have the goodness to give her time to consider of it as you must recollect how many various duty’s she has to fulfill. This is entirely from myself so it must be alone for you.

I hope by this time you will have received mama’s letter & the pigs which she commands me to say she hopes will be acceptable to the Princess. How much pleasure do we all look forward too is seeing you on the eleventh. My sisters join with me in informing you in a whisper that at present we want much to egayé us.

The Dutchess of Oldenburg** desires me particularly to tell you that whatever you may think we have made a conquest & of no less a person than Lord Orford, who says that he does not wish himself to be turned into one Emperor but into three; notwithstanding this declaration her maiden-blush cheek is turned into a damask rose whenever the Duke’s name is mentioned.

Our kind love to the Pss.

* A Lady of the Bedchamber to the Prince’s sisters. She was appointed Governess of the Royal Nursery at Carlton House in December 1795.

** A teasing reference to their eldest sister, who at this time seriously considered Peter of Oldenburg as her husband-to-be. 

[fortunainfiniitus-a-blog]

Dolores Jane Umbridge - Verses

HARRY POTTER SERIES

Half-blood witch, a daughter of Orford Umbridge and his muggle wife Ellen Cracknell, who served as Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic under Ministers Cornelius Fudge, Rufus Scrimgeour, and Pius Thicknesse. Canon-divergent, based mostly on the book and personal headcanons.

BY LIKING THE POST YOU EXPRESS WILLINGNESS TO INTERACT WITH THE CHARACTER.

[architectnews]

Blackwood Studio, Hinchinbrooke

Blackwood Studio, Hinchinbrooke Home, Québec Real Estate Extension, Canadian Architecture, Images

Blackwood Studio in Hinchinbrooke

Oct 26, 2020

Blackwood Studio

Architects: atelier BOOM-TOWN

Location: Hinchinbrooke, Québec, Canada

The premise in itself is quite uncommon: a visual artist who paints with fire buys a house on Blackwood Street and builds his studio using burnt wood cladding.

The Blackwood Studio is the outcome of a long history that began several years ago with a meeting with Steven Spazuk, a unique visual artist who paints with fire. Steven wanted to free himself from the space constraints of his cramped studio set up in the attic of his home in Léry, on the shores of Lake Saint-Louis.

A first version of the studio project was designed there and was set up in the backyard. Since the use of “artist studios” was prohibited for accessory buildings in that municipality, it was out of the question for the artist to carry out his creations on the sly in a “garage.” His desire for assertion and creation could not be expressed in such a place.

Additionally, the bedrock and constraints of the initial site soon made construction costs spiral upward. What is the point of living off your artwork when in order to pay your mortgage you need to return to the job you left behind to dedicate yourself to the art of creation? This marks the beginning of the search for a construction site for a house and studio. The location sought after would include an immense wooded area frequented by birds.

This search became a life project for the couple who have a love for fauna and flora. We, therefore, set foot together on a large piece of land up in the Rigaud hills and imagined a new project that would remain at the idea stage. In 2018, it was love at first sight… The couple fell under the spell of property in Franklin, on Blackwood Street, at the boundaries of the US border.

This time, it was an opportunity to bring the project to fruition by adding to the house’s structural components the studio that Steven had dreamt of for years. The budget remained modest, the form would be simple, but the context enabled the creation of a project that would integrate well both with the existing buildings as its natural environment.

The vast space is essentially dedicated to the creation and arrangement of an office area. The position of the openings is designed to let natural lighting judiciously illuminate the studio and allow the artist to relate to nature both within his new place of creation and at its doorstep. An all-glass space makes it possible to connect the studio to the house. The original house is white with a black tin roof. The play of black and white contrasts prevails.

As fire is at the heart of the artist’s working method, burnt wood cladding was required to cover the main volume of the studio. A long white skylight cuts a slit, like an arrow loop, in the southwest facade, to sparingly catch the afternoon sun.

Architects: atelier BOOM-TOWN Completion Year: spring 2020 Surface (building area): 74 m2 [800 sq.ft.] Architect: atelier BOOM-TOWN Cladding: Arbres & Bois

About atelier BOOM-TOWN Historically, the Boomtown house is associated with the ‘mushroom’ towns created near industrial complexes and mines in the years 1890–1920. It is easily recognized by its simple facade and square shape. Its roof is flat or nearly flat, an innovation for the time. The popularity of the Boomtown house was mainly due to increased space and low construction costs.

A century later, l’atelier Boomtown proposes a rereading of human-scale buildings architecture based on the original principles of the Boomtown house: Simplicity and efficiency. Working with space, light, and matter, l’atelier Boomtown designs contemporary houses, adapted to modern living.

To find out more about the artist Steven Spazuk

Photographer: Raphaël Thibodeau

Blackwood Studio, Hinchinbrooke information / images received 261020 from v2com newswire

Location: Bromont, Québec, Canada

Montreal Architecture

Montreal Architecture

Montreal Architecture Designs – chronological list

Montreal Architectural Tours Montreal Architecture Walking Tours by e-architect

Chalet La petite soeur, Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, Canada Architects: ACDF Architecture photography : Adrien Williams Residence in Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm

La Luge Cabin, La Conception, in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada Architects: YH2 photograph : Francis Pelletier New House in La Conception

Mount-Royal Kiosks, Parc du Mont-Royal, Montreal, QC, Canada Architectes: Atelier Urban Face photographers : Fany Ducharme, Normand Rajotte, Sylvain Legault and Sylvie Perrault Mount-Royal Kiosks

Centre de services Le Bonnallie, Parc national du Mont-Orford, Orford, QC Design: Anne Carrier architecture photographer: Stéphane Groleau Centre de services Le Bonnallie

Canadian Architects

Canadian Architecture

Montreal Buildings

Canadian Buildings

Comments / photos for the Blackwood Studio, Hinchinbrooke Canada Architecture page welcome

Website: Hinchinbrooke

The post Blackwood Studio, Hinchinbrooke appeared first on e-architect.

[maisondesbieres]

Nouveautés 9 SeptembreOn va commencer la semaine en beauté:Microbrasserie la Memphré- Lemon Haze - NEIPA de Session au CitronRobe voilée jaune paille. Nez d’agrumes et de fruits tropicaux. Désaltérante et citronnée en bouche. Finale nette et houblonnée. Pintable à souhait.- Orford - Special BitterAu nez, on devine des notes modérées de caramel et de chocolat et les houblons. Les houblons présentent ici un profil plus terreux et boisé. Bière réconfortante, mais pas trop forte, idéale pour la période automnale / hivernale.Brasserie Dépareillée- Saison Gagnante- Saison barriquéeVieillie en fût de vin rouge du Domaine Labranche.- La Passion dans tes YeuxBière fruitée aux fruits de la passion et poivre de Voatsiperifery savoureusement parfumé.Brasserie du Bois Blanc- Monolithe collaboration ÉpitapheSaison IPA- Fait AccompliNew England India Pale LagerLa Souche Microbrasserie- Nuit BlancheExpresso Stout- Haskap Grand Cru collaboration Microbrasserie St-PancraceTriple belge à la CameriseLa Barberie- Grande OasisDouble NEIPA des plus expressives houblonnée avec du Galaxy, du Mosaic, du Citra et du Ella.11 comtés- Gawa collaboration LA BALEINE ENDIABLÉEDes prunes de Dégelis, des camerises de Ste-Rita et des cerises de St-Jean-de-Dieu, parce que notre territoire regorge de petits trésors fruités.Beauregard Brasserie Distillerie- Stout ImpérialClassique à redécouvrir, notre Stout Impérial séduit par sa texture soyeuse et imposante. Des parfums de chocolat noircombinés à des notes légèrement fumée soutiennent des arômes de noisette, de café et de chocolat.

[adisneybucketlist]

Confession #14

Supernatural Tour: Part One

One of my teachers once said, everything you do in life, whether it be parenting, running a business, or just running your day, it all comes down to love and logistics. Our Supernatural Retreat was no different. It all came down to love and logistics.

Which brings me to part one. I’m going to start with logistics. While going into the tour, I knew the dates we would leave, the dates we needed to be at the finish line, and a few of the definite stops along the way and the people that may be at those stops, the rest was left to the unknown.

In fact, there were many unknowns jumping into this thing. I really couldn’t even tell you why I was doing it in the first place. Except for that I wanted to show my kids. I wanted them to see extraordinary people living extraordinary lives. People who may not live a “conventional” life, but that living that life is exactly what has brought them true freedom and joy. I knew I wanted to share stories of people’s healings with the world. But beyond that, it was just something that came to me in a meditation one day that I just couldn’t seem to shake. It was something my soul was calling me to do for some reason unknown to me. But I have learned enough now to know that when the soul calls, the body must follow.

So we officially started the tour off in Austin, Texas, staying with a woman we had never met for the weekend. We flew from the Philadelphia airport to Austin on October 19th. I had planned on us staying in an Airbnb near the airport that night as I knew it would be a little late coming in and if this woman had 50 cats, at least we would only have to endure it for one night!

Well she used her southern charm on us and apparently that is a very real thing. We decided to skip the Airbnb and take a lyft directly to her house in Kyle, TX. Well there weren’t 50 cats and in fact, despite our fears trying to work themselves in, her house was a little piece of heaven….as was she.

Saturday, we had a gathering of about 22 people. People came from hours away to join in on being a part of the tour. Originally, I had reached out to friends I have met through the work of Dr.Joe Dispenza. There is a big Facebook community online that people go to from all over the world that are practicing Joe’s meditations and teachings. That was a majority of who I was reaching out to, to try and connect with on our tour and get interviews from. I relied heavily on locals for reaching out to people in their area that would be interested in joining us for a day to meditate, interview, and just join in on the love and laughter.

Austin did not disappoint. There was only one person there (my friend that put the whole gathering together!) that we actually knew and the rest we had either met briefly online or hadn’t met at all. We meditated together, ate tons of amazing food, did some coherence healing meditations, and plenty of interviews. By the end of the day, as it always goes, we felt like one big happy family.

The next day we flew into Las Vegas to pick up our RV on Monday morning. Our little home that would be ours for the following 10 days. It was completely self-sufficient with a comfy bed, bathroom, shower, and fully operable kitchen. We were able to meet up with a very good friend of ours before heading off into the sunset.

From Las Vegas we drove to Sedona, AZ. We really only had one intention in mind for going to Sedona. We had both been there before, so it wasn’t the scenery. It was one particular person. A person we met one year before almost to the date! More on that in part two.

We stayed 2 days in Sedona, rode around some trails on a rented side by side, watched beautiful sunsets, and of course visited the famous church on the rocks.

From Sedona we moved on to Phoenix, Arizona where we met up with some amazing people. We gathered for a walking meditation on the morning of October 25th, followed by breakfast. We had some great convos throughout the day and gathered for a feast that night.

We hit the road early the next morning for San Diego, driving pretty much all day. It was a gorgeous drive and we were greeted by an amazing friend late that night. As it seemed to be the theme, we parked in her driveway that night and were so excited just to be able to plug in our RV….and have Wi-Fi!

San Diego turned out to be much quieter as I didn’t have much planned for our stop there. We were able to meet up with one Dr.Joe student who had made some tremendous changes in her life since we first met her in Santé Fe in February. She preferred to keep her story to just us for now, but stay tuned

We also had the pleasure of meeting up with another friend we hadn’t seen in a year and her adorable doggies. It was definitely one of our most favorite stops. As soon as you walked into her house, you could feel such warm and happy energy. It took over your whole body and you didn’t want it to end. Even the smell of her house was amazing. Her private little outside oasis with the San Diego sun and warmth was heavenly. One hour there was nowhere near enough time!

We decided the smartest move would be to avoid Sunday morning traffic in LA and drive that night. We left San Diego after a great dinner with the friend we were staying with and headed straight for Ojai, California.

We arrived in Ojai in the wee hours of the night, sleeping with our heads pointed straight downhill. Little did we know our friend’s house who we were parking at that night was on a fairly steep incline. Well at least it felt steep after all the blood had rushed to my head by morning:-)

We spent 3 amazing hours at our very dear friends house. To say her house is beautiful is an understatement. It reminded me of a very old Spanish hacienda mission style, but something the deeply spiritual would build. As soon as we walked into her house, both our bodies were buzzing. Literally. The energy was beyond this world and every nook and cranny felt like it held a secret. In knowing her, I knew she would probably have a pretty awesome house, but it was 100 times that. I completed an interview with her, and, yet again, it was hard to say goodbye. But our longest haul of the trip was inching close.

After leaving Ojai we were in for the longest stretch of driving. Ojai to San Francisco, driving up the old Pacific Hwy (hwy 1) the whole time. If you have never drove up that highway, I would most definitely add it to your bucket list. The views were something I have never seen before. The colors of the sunsets were so vivid and breathtaking. Literally it took my breath away. You can’t not believe in something beyond us when seeing sights like that. It truly is a spiritual experience.

We made it to the Nepenthe restaurant right outside of Big Sur late that evening and decided the parking lot would suffice for parking the RV to sleep that night.

We were to meet a group in Sonoma at the Benziger Family Winery at 2 pm that afternoon so another early morning rise and long day drive for us. From Big Sur to San Francisco it was again, spectacular views.

I have never been to wine country before, but it was BEAUTIFUL. The particular winery we met our group at is a biodynamic winery, which if you don’t know what that is, I definitely recommend you look it up. Pretty cutting-edge stuff and so inspirational!

We had a group of about 15 people to do the wine tour with and a short meditation before the tour. I only completed one interview while at the winery, but it was amazing. As was the theme, there was only one person there I had previously met and was friends with and the rest met for the first time.

We had dinner after our wine tour in Sonoma and shared some amazing stories and laughter. It was the perfect group with the most perfect people!

We parked that night in the driveway of the lady and her husband’s house that put the gathering together. And I am so happy to say now that they are both soul friends. After dinner the great conversation extended to their house and then again in the morning before leaving. As the theme became very common, it was hard to leave that morning.

It was supposed to be a short jaunt over to Sacramento to stay the night there but as it goes, traffic, side of the road naps, and finding a gas station that takes American express (in other words, the unknown!) seemed to throw some wrenches in that plan.

We arrived at my very very dear friend’s house in Woodland Park around 5 pm on Tuesday, the 30th. This was especially exciting for me because I had been waiting to see her and her family for over a year. She cooked an enormous meal for us and some other friends that made it over for dinner. It was a meal for God’s! Not to mention the amazing conversation and the closeness we all felt. So much so that I was too enmeshed in the moment to do any actual interviews.

Once again it was a very early rise before sun up and on the road again. Our last long stretch of the trip. We drove through the Redwood forest in northern California only to be greeted by the Pacific Northwest rain upon entering Oregon. We made it to an actual RV park in Port Orford Oregon and were beyond excited to stay somewhere with FULL hookups. It definitely wasn’t anything to write home about, but hey, after living in an RV for over a week, and sleeping in parking lots and driveways, the little things counted.

We got up the next morning and hit the road. We had plans to meet some friends in Olympia for dinner and it would be our last long day of driving. And even though it was nearing winter and we were driving half the day on the Oregon coast and the other half through central Oregon and then into Washington, it was beautiful sunshine and towering pine trees. While it’s no California coast, it is beautiful in its own Pacific Northwest way.

We met our friends for dinner in Olympia and of course, another great meal, great conversation and tons of laughter.

After dinner, we had yet another night spent in a parking lot and our last before sunrise the next morning to hit the road. We had to have the RV to northern Seattle by 10 am that morning and then it would be on to our final stop of the tour. Our big ending to our big trip.

After dropping off the RV we headed straight to the Airbnb we would be spending the weekend at. See, I knew from the beginning of our trip, Seattle would be more than just the final destination. It would be something magical. We would be surrounded by not only our closest friends but some of the most amazing people I have ever met in my life. But more on that in part 2.

We stayed in an Airbnb in Seattle for 3 days with 12 other people. The weekend was beyond words and after 2 weeks of being surrounded by complete love and light and then ending it like that, Monday night was a complete culmination of all of it. We had 2 of our closest friends stay with us Monday night at a very strange Airbnb near Olympia, Wa. We had dinner once again with some other good friends that lived nearby in Yelm Washington. But it didn’t matter where we were…it just mattered we were together.

Which leads to part 2. Love…

source https://thefreedomproject222.com/confession-14/ source https://thefreedomproject222.blogspot.com/2020/07/confession-14.html

[engl11ww]

Video Game Addiction

On June 18, 2018, the Sun.co.uk reported that a nine-year-old girl in the UK was checked into rehab after getting addicted to the video game Fortnite. Fortnite is a builder/third-person shooter game where one or a group plays with 100 other players on a map trying to eliminate other players to be the only team left in a shrinking playable map. (Barbour, 2018)

Her parents reported that she would play for 10 hours a day, that she would hit her father when told to stop playing and that she would wet herself to avoid having to stop playing. Her mother Carole reported that she is in therapy for addiction to video games. This is not the only case of video game addiction, a study by Douglas A. Gentile Ph.D., revealed in a study that 273 kids and teenagers out of 3034 video game players studied can be classified as addicted to video gaming (Addictions.com, n.d.). This paper seeks to suggest psychosocial interventions for parents to follow to treat clinically normal children who are currently diagnosed with video game addiction.

To better understand the problem, it is important to understand addiction and what are the distinct qualities that make up the disorder in children. Addiction in a broad sense is any substance or behavior that has an appetitive nature, an impulsive repetitive quality, is self-destructive and is experienced as difficult to modify or stop (Orford, 1985). Video games like Fortnite have the potential to be an addictive behavior because of how video games are designed. Video games give the player purpose or goals which can be accomplished through play. Accomplishing in-game goals like getting a kill or getting nice items makes the brain experience hits of dopamine which is associated with the brain’s pleasure, craving and reward system. The association that video game activity is pleasurable makes an individual crave the repetition of activity, which can lead to dependence on that activity for pleasure or an unhealthy attachment to gaming. (Beres, 2018)

The climate of today’s time also encourages children to participate in gaming as a social activity, again for example in the case of Fortnite. “Fortnite logged 8.5 million concurrent players and announced that more than 200 million people play. People across the world have spent more than 5,000 years watching Fortnite streams on a video game streaming service called Twitch over two weeks alone. Lastly Epic Games, the company that produced Fortnite, announced it will be putting $100 million into eSports player pools over the next year.” (Beres, 2018)

Children in terms of their development are also at risk for developing addiction due to underdeveloped impulse control centers in the brain in the prefrontal cortex. Thus it is important to monitor and regulate their behavior and development as they grow up. (KidsHealth, n.d.).

This of course does not assume that all people/children who engage in video gaming activity are designed to develop video game addiction. Certain symptoms define or can indicate whether video gaming activity has become addictive or unhealthy for an individual. In a child’s case, warning signs to parents that a child could be experiencing video game addiction could be seen in one or more of the following symptoms happening as a result of video game use:

Child does not perform at an adequate level at school

Child does not get 8 to 10 hours of sleep a day

Child does not eat at least 3 meals a day

Child does not have various interests besides gaming

Child does not have strong and healthy social relationships

Child does not maintain basic hygiene

The measures above are basic expectations for a healthy child’s development and wellbeing outlined by Nestle. (Nestle, n.d.)

If it is found that a child does exhibit the symptoms of video game addiction, then the following steps can be taken by parents/guardians to regulate a child’s gaming activity to a healthy level.

First it is recommended that parents/guardians see a developmental psychologist or a child psychologist with the child to consult about whether the child really does have addiction and/or if the child’s video game addiction could be indicative of other psychological disorders like depression or attention disorders. If other psychological disorders are present, then parents would be advised to explore multiple interventions with the guidance of a psychologist.

If the child is found to be clinically normal though then a second step would be for parents to establish clear and strict rules to be followed by children regarding video game use. Suggestions by RaiseSmartKids.com, a parenting blog, regarding effective rules would be to only allow an hour to two hours of video game play a day or establishing a reward system where children can only play video games if they finish a homework assignment or chore or get certain grades at school. The blog also advises using software to regulate time children spend playing games and automatically close them when the agreed upon time elapses, an example on the desktop would be an app like FocusMe (raisesmartkid, n.d.).

Lastly it is encouraged for parents to engage and build children’s interests in other activities besides gaming as a pleasurable activity whether through sports, art, lessons or others. One healthy activity that can be taught and accompanied with interventions can be mindfulness meditation. Psychologists have found that mindfulness meditation can help recovering addicts of various substances. Mindfulness trains the mind to deal with stressful situations by learning to sit with discomfort and be in the present moment exercising thoughtful and purposive action. This helps in the development and exercise of the prefrontal cortex and trains children not to simply act on pure instinct, helping regulate addiction (Smith, 2017).

Ideally should all these steps be followed; a child should be able to regulate gaming to a healthy and acceptable level. A healthy level of gaming again can be measured following Nestle’s measure for a healthy child’s development.

The advantages of the intervention above would be that firstly, it involves parents which is important in child-based interventions as parents have the most control in their children’s lives and are commonly vigilant to their children’s behaviors thus should be able to spot symptoms of addiction and act on change. Secondly it is psychosocial in nature, meaning less expense on drugs and medical procedures while being an integral part of teaching children proper impulse control which is important to their development.

The success of the intervention of course though is wholly dependent on the commitment and judgement of the child’s parent. Thus, it is encouraged to mitigate any weakness in the interventions that parents continue to read and study video game addiction and their children so that they can modify interventions according to a child’s specific case or development.

Bringing it back to the case of the British girl in Sun.co.uk, this intervention should work in her case as she has the guidance of a psychological expert in her recovery and her parents have been vigilant in spotting her addiction and willing to invest in her recovery. Rehabilitation facilities do often teach patients as well to regulate addictive behavior whether to entirely stop or regulate to healthy levels by setting strict rules towards patients. The only difference in rehabilitation centers being the presence of other recovering addicts, meant to be a source of support for patients to one another. Rehabilitation centers though are commonly designed for adults who engage in behavior or substances of their own volition and have it on them to rehabilitate and change themselves. Children on the other hand are still under the guidance and direction of parents and thus can be better regulated by their rules (techaddiction, n.d.).

Gaming itself should not be feared as an activity because as mentioned awhile ago, the social climate has made it a new avenue for social and creative expression, to build friendships and build pleasurable memories. It is simply important as in any activity to balance its use and exposure so that children can gain the most of its benefits while building a healthy and happy childhood.

(1344 words overall)

Additional Sources:

Smith, F. (2017, September). The Addicted Brain. National Geographic, 34-51.

Diclemente, C. C. (n.d.). Addiction and Change (2nd ed.). New York and Lonodon: The Guilford Press.

[veryfineday]

Saturday 30 April 1831

6 1/2

12 35/..

Vc  Vc  Vc  Vc N  +  V

Fahrenheit 52º 1/2 at 6 3/4 and fine morning - out at 7 35/.. - walKed to the muette gate and bacK in 2 hours - began to rain about 8 20/.. and rained latterly heavily the whole of the rest of time I was out and has rained more or less heavily ever since till now, 12 madame de Hagemann came to me for a minute or 2 to shew blotting booKs - dressed - breakfast at 10 10/.. in 20 minutes - read Le Temps and had a little nap till 11 50/.. - looKing over maps of the de Hagemanns’ Italian guide -

madame Galvani Lesson 37 from 12 40/.. to 1 50/.. - then hour dressed etc. left madame G-[Galvani] to sit in my room till 3 - I off at 2 1/2 to Lady Stuart’s she in bed - not quite so well as on Thursday - saw Lady mexborough and the girls - Lady S-[Sarah] S-[Savile] wanted to return me both my fans, but agreed she is to Keep the prettiest -

then to mrs. Hamilton - sat near an hour with her - she spoke of my Knowledge as having a high idea of it - would have me publish my journal! - speaKing of miss Berry - thinKs her clever merely by dint of living with clever people, Lord Orford etc., and having picKed up a great deal of anecdote - but there is a strange confusion of ideas in her head - and want of language to express them - Mrs. H[amilton] has often seen her breakdown in conversation -

then went to the rue du Helder meaning to call on mrs. Taylor but could not find out the house - then to madame Contant’s - very long time there buying cambric for M-[Maraina] 3 ells at 7 /.[francs] 2 d[itt]o at 15/75 and 1 aune + enough for 2 pocket handkerchiefs at 18/.[francs] - th[e]n left my fan again at Pivat’s to be gummed again for Lady S.S-[Sarah Savile] and home at 5 50/.. -

dinner at 6 35/.. - Read the paper - came to my room at 8 35/.. - wrote all but first 2 1/2 lines of today - on returning to dinner found 2 card from ‘Madame [Nathaniel] Barton Rue neuve de Berri no.2 bis’ and very civil note from our proprietor monsieur Leclercq offering a small apartment upstairs to put our furniture in till my return and then carriage stand gratis, observing that the apartment might do for me just at first till I could suit myself better -

madame Galvani speaKing today of English ladies and their low reputation here for morality said everybody how easy they were of attainment - one English lady who lives near the Luxembourg, and was liée with a GreeK prince just gone as consul somewhere (Kolocotroni?) made him climb the garden wall to get to her room and had put him in one bed while her husband was in the other! a species of effrontery unheard of in Italy - the lady more over never acKnowledged her GreeK in society but when they met there each appeared a perfect stranger to the other -   she was sspeaking this day week of Lady S[tuart] de R[othesay] and her sore throat as being all owing to Lord S[tuart]  and mentioned sarsaparilla as a specific in that case  little Lou should take it in spring  as much as three spoon fulls in three glasses water - on the subject of an old man marrying a young  she had made the only?[with a dot] or best impromptu she had ever done  ‘Qui soixante ans aura vecu Et jeune fille épousera, S’il est [galu], se grattera  Avec les ongles d’ un coccu’ - she wrote me copy of letter to Antoine Clavet

Coffee at 9 1/2 - at which hour madame de Hagemann came and soon after mr. de H-[Hagemann] he and I got into politics - he all for the reform bill and I gently against - we two stood talKing till 11 20/.. ten minutes after madame de H-[Hagemann] had left the room - then staid talKing to my aunt - came to my room at 10 40/.. at which hour Fahrenheit 54º and very rainy night, and very rainy day - ten minutes on the pot for nothing but two or three little round bits

[etoncollege]

The Canadian Way of Life: Introduction for International Students

The world is composed of people who come from various cultures. Being open to distinct cultures helps you accept and respect people who are different from you. The more you connect with people, the more you can understand their points of view and appreciate their unique practices.

One way to expose yourself to different cultures is to study abroad.

But when it comes to studying abroad, what are your primary considerations? Is it attaining a foreign degree, or having stable employment after graduating? Are you looking for a safe place to study, or a welcoming and multicultural environment for when you study abroad for two to four years.

You will discover all these and much more in Canada.

Fast facts

Canada is one of the most favored destinations among international students. Ranking as the second-largest country in the world, it has all the components to make for an extraordinary experience. Its people are known for their hospitality and politeness. The state has a comparatively affordable cost of living, is known to be welcoming to immigrant populations, and is famed for providing a high quality of life.

The people

Canadian people are friendly, sincere, and kind. In fact, a Canadian is often depicted as one who apologizes despite not being at fault. To a certain extent, this is true. The society greatly values tolerance, humility, as well as non-violence.

The climate

Canada’s four seasons add to its extensive potential to be a preferred study destination.

Summers are normally sunny, but can be hot or muggy. Mount Orford in Quebec and the Bruce Peninsula are typically the go-to summer vacation sites.

Winter runs the range of snowy and cold, very cold, or freezing.

Spring is usually wet and unstable, and it comes early in February and around April in the rest of the country.

Fall gives a spectacular display of glowing landscapes, with golden and red leaves enhancing the trees in the forests. It is the ideal season for hiking in the national and provincial parks over the country, mainly those in Ontario and Quebec.

The sights and attractions

You’ll never run out of places to occupy your time when you’re not studying. You could discover something new with just a short drive. You could also take a plane for once-in-a-lifetime activities such as visiting Niagara Falls, exploring Banff National Park, skiing in Whistler, and sightseeing on Prince Edward Island.

The food

Canadians’ typical diet consists of fruits, vegetables, and flour-based carbohydrates. In fact, they eat more potatoes than flour. Their usual dish is mashed potatoes and chicken or turkey. Banana is the main dessert because of its availability, but apple is also an in-demand fruit.

On the other hand, they also present prominent international cuisines, such as Chinese, Indian, Portuguese, Lebanese, Thai, Cambodian, Mexican, Mongolian, Armenian, Ethiopian, and Japanese, to name a few. Restaurants offering these diverse cuisines will make you feel like you’ve traveled around the world.

The culture

Canada excels beyond its borderline with its wealthy native art. Thousands of years before the European expansion, a time that radically changed the country’s ethnic layer, indigenous artists were making sculptures and crafts representing everyday ventures and legends. These expressive heritage sites are the main sources of the country’s visual culture and rich history.

The education system  

When it comes to schools, universities, and campuses, Canada has both public and private educational institutions. It has a reputation for world-class and in-demand programs, as well as a good employability aspect to its course offerings. This means students have a good chance of landing stable jobs once they graduate.

If you’re interested in studying in Canada, Eton College offers career-oriented programs that equip students with an exceptional educational experience to meet their educational and career goals.

[guerrerense]

Approaching MP 89 por Michael Berry Por Flickr: The Orford Express has just left Magog as it approaches a crossing at MP 89.

[electorquotes]

Cobbett’s Parliamentary History of England, 1811

Page 1: Accession of George the First. August 1, 1714. Pursuant to the act of succession, George Lewis, son of Ernest Augustus, first elector of Brunswick Lunenburgh, by the princess Sophia, granddaughter of king James 1, ascended the throne on the death of queen Anne. ……. The great services he had done for the emperor Leopold, determined the emperor Joseph, his successor, to use all his power to procure him admittance into the electoral college: and the emperor Charles, successor of Joseph, caused him to be acknowledged elector by Lewis 14, and by the electors of Cologne and Bavaria, who, till the treaty of Restart, had refused him that title. …… As soon as queen Anne had resigned her last breath, the privy council met, and the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, and resident Kreyenberg (in whose hands they were lodged) procured the elector of Brunswick’s three instruments, nominating the persons to be added, as lords justices, to the seven great officers of the realm. After the opining of the instruments, a proclamation was issued, declaring that the high and mighty prince George elector of Brunswick Lunenberg, was, by the death of queen Anne, become our lawful and rightful liege lord, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. ……. The great officers were: Dr. Tennison, archbishop of Canterbury; lord chancellor Harcourt: John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire, lord president; Charles Talbot, cute of Shrewsbury, lord treasurer; William Legg, earl of Dartmouth, lord privy seal; Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford, first commissioner of the admirably; sir Thomas Parker, lord chief justice of the King’s bench. To these were added, by the elector of Brunswick, in the instrument under his own hand, the following persons: The dukes of Shrewsbury; Somerset; Bolton; Devonshire; Kent; Argyle; Montrose; Roxburgh; the earls of Pomfret; Anglesey; Carlisle; Nottingham; Abingdon; Scarborough; Orford; lord viscount Townshend; lord Halifax; and lord Cowper.

Page 17: To the Whigs the court of Hanover was indebted, for obliging the French king and the duke of Lorrain not to suffer the Pretender in their dominions, and for the advices of what was contriving against the interests of the Protestant successor. This being the case, there was no room to deliberate which party to choose. King William, accustomed from his youth to dissimulation, might have deliberated, or seemed to have done so; but the elector of Hanover, absolute master in his German dominions, and consequently unused to faction and party, was hardly capable of that dissimulation, so requisite in a government like that of England.

Page 25: The elections for the new parliament were now carrying on with great warmth by both parties, but with most success on the side of the Whigs. The electors in some counties and cities drew up instructions for their representatives, the most remarkable of which were those of the city of London, wherein was this passage: “We desire and expect, that you will inquire by whose counsel it was, that, after God had blessed the arms of her late majesty, and her allies, with a train of unparalleled successes, she was prevailed upon, contrary to the grand alliance, and her repeated promises from the throne to both houses, to send to, or receive managers from France, to treat separately of a peace, without the knowledge and consent of our allies.”

Page 77: And his imperial majesty and their high mightinesses, pursuant to the treaties aforementioned, respectively, in or about the said month of May 1702, did likewise declare war against France and Spain: And whereas the kings of Portugal and Prussia, the electors of Hanover, Saxony, Treves, Mentz, Palatine of the Rhine, the duke of Savoy, the prince of Hesse, the dukes of Wolfenbuttle, Mecklenburg, and Wirtemburg, the circles of Swabia and Franconia, and of the Upper Rhine, the bishops of Munster and Constance, and other princes and powers, being invited by the said grand alliance, and relying on the faith thereof, did afterwards become parties to the said confederate war against France and Spain; and, in the treaty entered into in or about the month of May 1703, between his imperial majesty, the queen of Great Britain, the States General, and the king of Portugal, it is, amongst other things, expressly stipulated ….

Page 149: Article II. Whereas the maintaining a perfect union and good correspondence between her late majesty and the illustrious house of Hanover was of the utmost importance, for preserving to these kingdoms the invaluable blessings of their religion and civil liberties by securing the succession to the crown, by a race of protestant princes, ever renowned for their great justice and clemency, and thereby defeating the traitorous designs of the Pretender; and, for that purpose, the great wisdom of divers parliaments, had fixed and confirmed the said succession, had also laid the obligation of an oath upon the subjects of these realms, to support and maintain the same to the utmost of their power; he the said Thomas earl of Strafford, not regarding the many ill consequences to her majesty and these kingdoms, which would naturally ensue from a disunion or coolness of affection between princes so nearly allied in blood and interest, instead of doing what in him lay to prevent the same, did, on the contrary, in his letters from Holland to her majesty’s ministers of state in Great Britain, by divers false representatives and scurrilous reflections upon his present most gracious majesty, then elector of Hanover, endeavor to alienate her majesty’s affections from his said electoral highness, and to create or widen fatal differences or misunderstandings between them: and when, by the wicked and pernicious advice of him the said Thomas earl of Stafford and divers other evil counselors, her late majesty was at lsat prevailed upon to make a fatal cessation of arms with the then common enemy, without any concert with his said electoral highness, and against the consent, and contrary to the most earnest representations, of all the allies; for the execution of which he the said earl was sent over to the army in the Netherlands, where the generals of the auxiliaries paid by her majesty, whose honor and consciences would not permit them to abandon the confederates, and leave them as a sacrifice to France, refused to withdraw tin the duke of Ormond, without particular orders form their respective masters; which proceedings of the confederate general being widely represented by the said evil counselors, in conjunction with the ministers and emissaries of France, as an indignity offered to her scared majesty; …..

Page 161: The said earl doth acknowledge, that he thought a peace was very much for the interest and advantage of Great Britain; and, in his humble opinion, the most favorable juncture for obtaining advantageous terms of peace was immediately after the signal victories gain by her majesty’s arms in the year 1706; for, after the reduction of the dominions of the electors of Bavaria and Cologne, with other important conquests in Germany; after the entire destruction of three great armies of France, in Flanders, Spain, and Piedmont; after the allies had recovered the Spanish Netherlands, Milan, and other territories in Italy: it might have been hoped, from the great distress in which the enemy then was, a just and reasonable peace could have been obtained, since so much was at that time gained from the enemy, and so much more in all probability, would have been yielded by them, as would have fully answered the ends of the grand alliance.

Page 253: The said earl denies that he, by false representations, or by any reflections upon his majesty, when elector of Hanover, in any letter to the late queen’s ministers or otherwise, did endeavor to alienate her majesty’s affections from his electoral highness; and saith, that to such a general charge it is impossible to make any particular answer or defense; but the said earl is firmly persuaded, there is not any expression, in any letter by him wrote, that carries the appearance of any such false representation or reflection; such expressions being as remote from his heart and intentions, as they are inconsistent with that respect to the illustrious house of Hanover, which, by the whole tenor of his actions, he hath endeavored to demonstrate.

Page 257: And the said earl is well assured, he was not wanting in his zeal and regard for the security of the Protestant succession; on which head the British plenipotentiaries, at the very first general conference with the French ministers at Utrecht, pressed their explanation; and they agreed thereunto; and, when the allies delivered their respective demands, the queen’s ministers, on their part, insisted in such manner on what related to the security of that succession, that the princess Sophia was pleased to honor them with a letter of thanks, and to acknowledge their care of the interest of her family; nor were they less careful, at the conclusion of the treaty, to settle that important point with the utmost exactness, to the satisfaction of the queen, the court of Hanover, and both houses of parliament; and the articles for that purpose were not only conceived in stronger terms than and been made use of at Ryswick, for acknowledging the then settlement of the crown; but, before they were inserted in the treaty, were communicated to the minister of the elector, and had his approbation; and the manner of that transaction seems sufficiently justified, from the happy effects.

Page 301: After this he made some remarks on our ancient constitution, in relation to parliaments; and, in particular, took notice of the great change which, in process of time, has happened in the qualifications of the electors, by the increase and plenty of silver and gold species in Europe; for forty shillings a year in freehold, which qualifies a man to vote in elections, was formerly as good as forty pounds is at present: so that formerly the electors were either gentlemen or men of substance, whereas the majority of them are of the dregs of the people, and therefore more subject to corruption. From all which he inferred, that frequent elections render our government dependent on the caprice of the multitude, and very precarious. He also took notice, that if the heats were increased since the king’s accession to the crown, it was chiefly because some persons, who had a great opinion of their own merit were not in office; which gave him an opportunity to vindicate his majesty as to the distribution of his favors, and the rewarding those who, in the worst of times, had shown their zeal for his succession, and, during the late rebellion, ventured their lives for his majesty’s service.

Page 311: Since the king and his parliament exert their united power for the good of the public, and to retrieve the honor of the nation, why should they not continue longer together, that they may finish what they have so unanimously and so happily begun? Upon the whole, Sir, the electors and people of all the boroughs in England having been, for several years past, both bribed and preached into the Pretender’s interest, and a dislike of the Protestant succession, it becomes rather necessity than choice to apply an extraordinary remedy to an extraordinary disease; therefore I shall give you no farther trouble, but make you a very short motion, which is, That this bill be committed.

Page 317: But it is self-evident, that this power with relation to the part we bear in the legislature, is absolutely, is solely in the electors. You have no legislative capacity, but what you derive from them. You were chosen under the Triennial Act, and could only be chosen for three years, unless they could convey more to others, than they had in themselves; unless they could give us a long term to represent them, than they could claim at the time of their choice to be represented. Our trust therefore is a Triennial trust; and if we endeavor to continue it beyond its legal duration, from that instant we cease to be the trustees of the people, and are our own electors; from that instant we act by an assumed power, and erect a new constitution.

Page 329: The right of electing representatives in parliament, is inseparably inherent in the people of Great Britain, and can never be thought to be delegated to the representatives, unless you will make the elected to be the elector; and, at the same time, suppose it the will or the people, that their representatives should have it in their power to destroy those that made them, whenever a ministry shall think it necessary to screen themselves from their just resentments: this would be to destroy the fence to all their freedom; for if we have a right to continue ourselves one year, one month or day, beyond our Triennial term, it will unavoidably follow, we have it in our power to make ourselves perpetual; and whatever necessity we may be reduced to hereafter, matters are not yet in that apparent bad condition, to voice the people that there is a present occasion for this dangerous innovation in their constitution.

Page 331: Many subsequent laws were made for preserving to the people this privilege, on which all other depend, of being faithfully represented in parliament. No less than seven acts were made in king William’s time for that purpose: so greatly did the endeavors of officers to influence elections at that time abound. The statute of 3 Will. and Mar. c. 1, takes notice, ‘That the officers of the excise, by reason of the greatness of the duty, and the extraordinary powers given to them, had frequently, by threats or promises, so far prevailed on electors, that they had been absolutely debarred of the freedom of giving their votes; which, according to the known constitution of this kingdom, every person ought to have and enjoy.’ It then enacts, ‘that any such officer who persuades or dissuades any elector from giving his vote, shall forfeit 100l. and be incapable of executing any office relating to the excise.’ Another law of the like nature was lately made in relation to the officers concerned in collecting the post office duty. These laws are now all to be laid asleep. Provisions made for protecting the people’s right of election must become insignificant, if elections themselves are no loner to be allowed.

Page 341: I believe it will not be denied, That it is very possible for a ministry, by pensions and employments to some, and by the expectations raised in others, and by the corruption of electors, and returning officers, to obtain a very great majority, entirely and blindly at their devotion, even at the very first meeting of a parliament, and that by a committee of elections and other proper helps, their party may daily increase; and that such a parliament may be so far from protecting the liberties of their country, or from being a terror to evil ministers, as to become themselves the tools or oppression in the hand of such a ministry, and by their authority, to consecrate the worst of actions, to declare every honest patriot, who has the courage to attempt to stem the tide of wickedness, and to stand up for the liberties of his country, to be its greatest enemy; and those who are ready to give it up, to be the only true friends of our constitution; and if this should ever happen to be our case, I beg gentlemen to consider, Whether a greater curse could fall on any people than to have such a parliament as this entailed upon them.

Page 347: If this bill were to enlarge only the continuance of future parliaments, I should give my negative to it for the reasons I have already mentioned, and yet in that case the electors would have a fair warning for what time they were to choose, and those elected, would be truly and properly the representatives of the people; which I conceive cannot be said with truth of the present Parliament, if they should be continued beyond the three years: this, to me, is an insuperable objection against this part of the bill; for if we may add four years to our present term, may we not add forty, may we not make ourselves perpetual: or even extinguish parliaments themselves? Nay, what is it which we may not do, or, after this set, what is it which the people of Great Britain may not apprehend that we will do? Can we do anything much worse, than to subvert one of the three estates of the realm, and to substitute a new one in the place thereof, and instead of a House of Commons by the choice of the people, as it always has been, and ever ought to be, to establish a new kind of House of Commons, and till now unheard of, by act of Parliament?

Page 353: It has been said, ‘That three years is too short a time to effect anything of great moment for the service and benefit of the nation: That the first sessions is generally spent and wasted away in the determination of elections; in the second something is done; but that the last sessions is usually as much lost as the first, gentlemen’s minds running so much on the ensuing election, as to think of nothing else; and the fear also of disobliging their electors, on so near a view of a new choice, become a very great bias to their conduct in parliament, to the prejudice of the public service; so that in this short term of three years, there is little more than the work of one year done.’

Page 355: As to the increase of bribery and corruption in elections, since the Triennial Act, it is impossible it can be owing to that law, or that it would be any wise diminished by a real thereof; and in fact, the increase of bribery and corruption in elections may have happened since that law, and yet be no wise a consequence thereof; it is contrary to common sense to imagine, that those who would purchase their seats in parliament, would give more for a triennial than for a septennial one, or for a continuance during life? or that such electors, who will sell their voices, have not arithmetic enough to proportion their prices, to the times they choose their representatives for; therefore this objection against the Triennial Act is certainly very frivolous, unless something much farther he intended, than I believe any Briton has yet the courage to speak out, I mean, unless it be in tended, before the expiration of the seven years, to add a farther term by another act, and so on: then ended there is an effectual sop put to all future bribery and corruption in elections, and the last election which the people had, was to be the last they ever were to have.

Page 357: The short of the case seems to me to be, That some ministers have by their conduct gone a great way to beggar the nation; and others have corrupted those who have been so undone, and in this happy situation of men and things, the public money has been employed to corrupt electors, and returning officers, and thereby have filled some parliaments with the creatures of a ministry, and many have likewise expended vast sums of their own, when they saw it necessary, to get or secure a place; and by this means these parliaments have been filled with great numbers of mercenary troops, whose names were scarce known in the counties where they were shown, and without any family interests of their own, or the assistance of those who had; and if there has been any bribery on the parts of those who have opposed such men, as perhaps there may, it has been occasioned by the vile arts which have been put in practice against them: So I think I may truly affirm, That bribery and corruption, in elections, have not followed as any consequence of the Triennial act, but from cases widely different; and that the foundation thereof was at first laid, and has bene since improved and carried on by wicked and designing ministers.

Page 359: The argument which I shall next take notice of, is that which seems to me to be mentioned as the chief inducement in the preamble of the bill, and which has been chiefly insisted upon by the gentlemen who have spoken for it: “Because of the danger from the general discontents, which some gentlemen are apprehensive, were a parliament now to be called, would produce a majority of very different sentiments from those who now compose it: others, who think better of the inclinations of the people, believe that this wicked work could not be accomplished without the help of foreign money, to bribe and corrupt the electors of Great Britain; but upon the whole, are of opinion, that the thing would be effected, and that instead of the present excellent House of Commons, so devoted to the true interest of their country, and to the support of his majesty and the protestant succession, we should greatly risk the having such a parliament as would be ready to call in the Pretender, and to deliver up their country to Popery and arbitrary power; and therefore those who are against the bill, are charged with contributing to this design, although they are charitably believed no wise to intend the thing.” And this I think is the full import of what has been said by gentlemen on this head of argument.

Page 363: Certainly no gentleman can be afraid of what every gentleman must wish, that before the end of another year, our ferment will subside, and the nation be restored to a perfect calm, which would entirely take away all pretenses of doing what is now endeavored: Or, that the unanimous voice of the electors of Great Britain against such a law, would, before another session, be found too strong to be resisted by their representatives, and that gentlemen, upon a more mature consideration, might come to think very differently of this matter from what they at present may; and that therefore this great masterpiece must be struck off at one heat, and that now or never must be the word: Or may not others without doors be apt to suspect, that this law is really intended to encourage the Pretender to invade, and his secret friends to show themselves in public, by soothing them up in the hopes and belief of the greatness of their numbers; and by leading them into that snare, have an opportunity of discovering and crushing them as thoroughly in England, as we have lately done in Scotland: and thereby secure forever the peace and tranquility of the whole kingdom?

Page 367: But it is said, that the main reason against beginning it here, was to take off that bias, which was apprehended might be upon the minds of gentlemen, from the doubtfulness of its fate in another place; for though the Lords have, we have not an inheritance in our seats, but depend for a continuance of them in future parliaments, on the good opinion of the elector of Great Britain; and to deprive them of the right of frequent elections, which they are entitled to by law, cannot be supposed a proper recommendation to their favor; and it was therefore convenient to remove this stumbling block out of the way, that the advocates for the bill might argue and vote with greater assurance.

Page 377: ….It is said, our electors choose us their representatives but for three years, and that we cannot prolong the term without betraying that trust which they have reposed in us. In answer to which must desire gentlemen to consider the nature of the writs of summons, and the returns to them: Is it not to consult ‘de rebus arduis regni?’ and….

Page 409: As to the rest, however, just and solid I allow your friend’s reasoning in other matters, yet I cannot reconcile the opinion, which your friend seems to have of the good faith of the king, and his interest, with the fear, which is nevertheless shown, that we have no other end than to procure for ourselves the restitution of the duchy of Bremen. — Pray, Sir, which way can the king of Sweden better secure himself the recovery and possession of his said duchy, than by reducing king George to be nothing more than an elector of the empire? By which means the king of Sweden will make himself be courted by the house of Lunenburg, as in former times.

Page 415: For my part, I take this reason to be a very weak one; for as this treaty, and the departure of the Pretender out of this country, must make the court of England think themselves in perfect safety, and deprive them of the pretext of keeping up their troops, our enterprise is become more easy, and more sure. And to imagine, that this court, at the bottom of their heart, would not be better pleased to have the Pretender on the throne of England, than the elector of Hanover; especially if the first continued to carry himself well towards this court, is to have a wrong notion of its interest, and of the private sentiments of the duke regent.

Page 443: Upon this Mr. Secretary Stanhope spoke in vindication of the king and his ministers, in relation both to the Czar and the king of Sweden. With respect to the first, he said, That he had hitherto been obliged to be silent; but that he was now at liberty to set this matter in a clear light, and to acquaint the House, that the coldness which appeared of late between the king and the czar, proceeded from his majesty's refusing to become guarantee of his czarish majesty's conquests; and from his majesty's soliciting the czar to withdraw his troops from the duchy of Mecklenburg: that as to the first of those matters, his majesty's conduct deserved the applause and the thanks of a British parliament, since it appeared thereby, that his majesty was tender not to engage the nation in foreign quarrels; that this, indeed, had been his majesty's principal care, since his happy accession to the throne; and he might assure them, that Great Britain was entirely free from any engagements, and at liberty to follow such measures as best suit with her interest: that as for the instances which his majesty has caused to be made with the czar, and the measures he may have concerted, to get the Russian troops out of the duchy of Mecklenburg, his majesty has acted in all this as elector and prince of the empire: that he was persuaded, all the gentlemen there would agree with him, that the king's dignity, as king of Great Britain, was never understood to tie up his hands with respect to his interests in Germany, and a prince of the empire: but besides, he must desire gentlemen to consider, that long before his majesty's accession to the crown, Great Britain was in strict union with the emperor and empire; so that if, by virtue of ancient alliances, the emperor should require Great Britain to use those instances with the czar, which the king has made only as elector of Hanover, Great Britain could not avoid complying with his request: that in relation to Sweden, the king's conduct was not only blameless and unspotted, but worthy of the highest commendations: that in the late queen's time, Great Britain interposed to procure a neutrality in the North, whereby the king of Sweden might have preserved his possessions in the empire: That the regency at Stockholm agreed to this overture; but that the king of Sweden rejected it with haughtiness and the utmost scorn, declaring, he would use those as his enemies, who should pretend to impose such a neutrality upon him: That during the whole course of that negotiation, the king, then elector of Hanover, used all friendly offices in favor of Sweden: That all this having proved ineffectual, through the king of Sweden's obstinacy, and the king of Denmark having, by the fortune of war, reconquered the duchies of Bremen and Verden, his majesty, as elector of Hanover, has purchased the same with his own money, for a valuable consideration: That although it never was in his majesty's thoughts to engage Great Britain in a war to support that acquisition, yet, if gentlemen would give themselves the trouble to cast their eyes upon the map, to see where Bremen and Verden lie, he hoped they would not be indifferent as to the possessor of these two duchies, but would agree with him, that their being in the king's hands suits far better with the interest of Great Britain, than if they were in the hands either of the czar, who gives already but too much jealousy to the empire; or of the king of Sweden, who endeavored to raise a new rebellion in Great Britain, and harbors our fugitive rebels.

Page 612: “I will not pretend to doubt but those noble personages have, under the hands and seals of all and every of their electors, the peers of Scotland, full power and authority for this alteration, without which their proceeding could not be reconciled to common honor: and if the thirty odd, who are to be ennobled by this Bill, are to be made up by present members of the House of Commons, such members are to climb to honor through infamy.

Page 846: That, after all, it seemed unreasonable to expect that the czar should restore his conquests, whilst other princes kept the spoils of Sweden; and therefore in order to engage the czar to yield what he had gained, it were but just that the king of Prussia should give up Stetin, and the elector of Hanover, Bremen, and Warden. His lordship owned, that the distressed condition to which the Swedes had been reduced, was really worthy of compassion: but that, on the other hand, it must be considered, that they had been, in great measures, the authors of their own misfortunes, by their tame submission to a despotic, tyrannical prince, and by sacrificing their whole substance to enable him to carry on his unjust, rash, and ambitious designs; and that any nation who followed their example deserved the same fate.

Page 967: 7. Because several oaths are, by laws now in being, required to qualify electors, and the oaths enjoined by this bill are intended only to strengthen the obligations under which such electors do, by the known rules of our constitution, already lie; nor are these oaths attended with any new hardship or difficulty, since they relate only to plain matters of fact, which are certainly known to the electors themselves, and which they will be ready to attest will all solemnity, if they are conscious of their own innocence; and if they are not, the legal punishment of perjury to which they are subjected is light, in comparison of the heinous nature of their offenses, and the mischievous consequences of it.

Page xl, Appendix: There are two or there faces very sour; they sigh and wish the Hanoverians had not separated from us, but I shall tell them, perhaps, it may be better.

He may see by this time the wrong advice he has followed, since all must lay the blame of the separation upon him. But this is not the only instance of the scorn and contempt which his lordship was ready to express upon the like occasions; for July the 16th, 1712, giving an account of a conversation with M. Bealau, the elector of Hanover’s general, wherein his lordship declared, that the queen had yet neither made peace nor truce, which declaration was made near a month after the articles for a suspension of arms were signed; and his lordship representing the great danger the queen’s troops were exposed to, by being left alone in their camp, when prince Eugene marched; and M. Bealau replying, in case of any attack they had been sure of their assistance and protection, his lordship says, “My answer was in a disdainful way, It would be a very odd thing, when an elector of the empire should be sufficient protection to Great Britain: and December the 14th, 1712, lord Strafford in his letter to Mr. St. John, says, count Zinzendorf owned, it was impossible to carry on the war alone, especially since the elector of Hanover, who was the greatest hero for the war, has threatened the States to recall his troops, if they did not pay him the queen’s share of the subsidies; — In short, count Zinzendorf himself could not but laugh at the ridiculous way of proceeding of that court.

Page xlvii, Appendix: He desires that the troops in Flanders under the command of the duke of Ormond, may be left there to make a good use of the towns which he was in possession of; but as the king of France could not consent to the duke of Savoy’s having Sicily, except the elector of Bavaria has also the Netherlands besides his electorate, he thinks the queen’s having a good army in Flanders under the command of the duke of Ormond, may render this very practicable; and as the queen has done a great deal for her own ungrateful allies, it will be for her glory now to contribute to the good of a prince of so much merit as the elector of Bavaria, whose acknowledgments will be equal to the benefits he shall receive.

But this would not pass even upon the ministry of Great Britain: the giving Flanders to the elector of Bavaria, was not only contrary to all the propositions of peace that had been made and passed between England and France, but was what would absolutely engage us in a new war to oblige the Imperialists and Dutch to agree to it; and they could not think it for the honor or interest of the queen to make war upon her allies, as ungrateful as they had ben, in favor of the elector of Bavaria; and especially considering, that although we could secure Ghent and Bruges for him, the allies had yet an army in Flanders so considerable both for the number and goodness of their troops, that they were able to defend the conquest they had made. ……. But although this negotiation was carried on upon a supposition, that the queen was to depart from several things, which in justice ought to have been procured for her allies, the king of France thought himself under no such obligation; his honor to an ally, whose fidelity was without reproach, was not to be dispensed with; and therefore to satisfy his engagements to so good an ally, was a point from which the king of France would never depart. But to show the king’s good dispositions to the peace, he at last consents to the duke of Savoy’s having Sicily upon certain conditions; wherein very ample provision is made for satisfaction to the elector of Bavaria; and one express condition is, that a peace be concluded between England, France, Spain, and Savoy.

Page xlix, Appendix: But the French plenipotentiaries were so far from agreeing to this, that they demanded of our ministers to know the queen’s mind upon the several parts of the last general plan brought over by M. Gaultier, and which are not explain in her majesty’s speech; saying their king expected it: and they do not know how to proceed till those points be stated: and the utmost they were to be brought to, was, that it was not to be understood to exclude their master from making some demands for the elector of Bavaria, and that Lisle was to be restored over and above the two or three places excepted in the queen’s speech. These passages are here mentioned as falling in, in point of time, but will be more properly considered afterwards.

Page li, Appendix: The substance of his instructions was in short to remove all difficulties and differences that might obstruct the general suspension of arms between England and France from taking place, or settling the treaty of peace in such a course, as may bring it to a happy and speedy conclusion. But to declare, that he does not imagine there will be any possibility to prevail with the queen to sign the peace with France and Spain, unless full satisfaction be given to his royal highness the duke of Savoy, and unless they can take him along with them in the doing thereof. He is therefore to take particular care to settle his barrier, and to procure Sicily for him; to settle the renunciation in such a manner, that there may be as little room left as possible for dispute or delay; that the elector of Bavaria may have Sardinia, and be restored to his dominions in the empire, except the Upper Palatinate and the first electorate; and when he has had satisfaction in these points, he is to proceed to speak to such articles as relate particularly to the interest of Great Britain, and endeavor to have such of them, as there may appear to be any doubt concerning, explained in the most advantageous manner. And then he is to do his best to discover upon the several parts of the general plan of peace, what the real ultimatum of France may be; and when the pace between England and France shall be signed, that it may be expedient to fix the allies a time to come in, wherein the queen will use over good offices, but will not be under any obligation to impose upon the allies the scheme offered by France, or to debar them from obtaining better terms for themselves.

Page lviii, Appendix: What happened afterwards in relation to Tourney, upon what great concessions made to France, together with the advantageous terms procured for the elector of Bavaria, the measures and councils relating to this affair were afterwards altered, is not material enough to require a long detail; but nothing less than an absolute concurrence, without any new objections or further demands, was to satisfy for the cession of Tournay; and that it was at last obtained is owing solely to the firmness and resolution of the States.

Page lx, Appendix: At the latter end of October Mr. Prior was sent into England, and, by what appears, left his residence in France, without the leave or any orders from the queen his mistress; but was sent over by the king of France as a proper person whom he thought fit to intrust with the great secret of prevailing with the queen by her credit to obtain what the king demanded for the elector of Bavaria. He brings a credential letter from the king of France to the queen, which, seeming something new of the kind, is here annexed.

Page lxviii, Appendix: On the 7th, and 20th, of March, O.S. lord Bolingbroke repeats these positive orders, and insists, that the peace should be concluded with that precipitation which her majesty would have used. And it is observable, that among all the demands that were made, upon account of any prince or potentate, none at this time met with the least regard; when, at the same time, the interest of the princes Ursini is espoused in the strongest terms. And in the same letter, March the 3rd, O.S. where his lordship, speaking of the consequence of the restoration of the elector of Bavaria to his electorate, says, “Her majesty does not much enter into the notion of the degradation of Hanover as a matter of any importance.” His lordship declares, “That the principality in some part of the Spanish Netherlands, with a revenue of 30,000 crowns demanded for the princess Ursini, must be made to the emperor, and all parties concerned, a condition, ‘sine qua non,’ of the general peace.”

Page cxxi: Appendix: As to the barrier, it would be necessary, before it be settled, to agree upon the destination of the Low Countries, as the king of Spain has yielded them to the elector of Bavaria, and that the king has signed the treaty thereof; if it should not be fulfilled, the elector would have his recourse to his majesty to be indemnified. He will therefore desire, that the Dutch should put into the hands of the elector of Bavaria, the towns and provinces possessed by them, or their allies, in the Spanish Netherlands, so as that price may possess the same in sovereignty after the peace, in like manner as he now possesses the towns and provinces of Luxembourg and Namur, and the places of Charleroy and Nieuport: the king will promise, that, on condition of this cession, the Dutch shall put garrisons into the strong places of the Low Countries, which shall be paid and maintained at the expense of the country; so that those provinces, being possessed by an independent prince, and garrisoned by Dutch troops, will form a barrier, which alone would be sufficient to secure the republic of Holland against any reasonable apprehension of the designs of France. …….. The cession of the Catholic Low Countries was made by the king of Spain to the elector of Bavaria, only with a design to indemnify him for the losses he suffered during the course of this present war; but his majesty, and the king his grandson, are further engaged by treaties with that elector, to restore him, by the peace, to the possession of his dominions, of his rank, and of his dignities, whereof he was deprived by the war; so his majesty will demand, that this prince resume in the electoral college the first ran, which was transferred to the elector Palatine; that the upper Palatinate, give to the said elector Palatine, be restored to the elector of Bavaria; and in short that the dismemberments made from the chief parts of the same electorate, be annulled, and things restored to their former order.

Even these demands are not repugnant to the interest of the Dutch, supposing that they will consent to leave the low countries to the elector of Bavaria; for it is consistent with their maxims, that these provinces should be possessed by a prince, whose power secures their barrier.

However, if they have different thoughts with respect to the elector of Bavaria, and that, forgetting the first engagements of that prince with the House of Austria, they are persuaded that his ties with France will never be weakened; if upon this foundation, they think that his power might at any time be dangerous to their state, and that therefore it is necessary to diminish the same; regard may be had to this fear, although ill grounded, by proposing for the good of the peace, to engage the elector of Bavaria to yield Bavaria, and the electoral dignity, to the prince his eldest son; whereof it would be necessary to conclude at the same time the marriage with the arch duties, eldest daughter of the late emperor Joseph.

Page cxxiii: Appendix: In this case it should be stipulated, that the elector would be satisfied to possess the Low Countries instead of Bavaria, with the condition that has been mentioned, of putting Dutch garrisons into the places to be paid and maintained at the charge of the country.

If these proposals should be rejected, the king, being engaged by his treaties to take care of the interests of a prince’s ally, demands that at least the elector of Bavaria may keep the provinces of Luxembourg and Namur, and that his electorate, his dignity, and his rank, may be restored to him; but it would not be just, that being reduced to two strong places in the Low Countries, he should be obliged to receive a Dutch garrison therein, which the revenue of those two provinces would not be able to maintain. This condition must be struck out; which the king only proposes in case all the Low Countries be entirely given to the elector of Bavaria.

As the king doubts not, but the queen of Great Britain thinks it just, that the elector Palatine should restore the upper Palatinate, his majesty thinks, that the duchy of Lunbourg might b separated from the Low Countries, and give to the elector Palatine, to indemnify him for the upper Palatinate, which he should restore; this his majesty leaves to the prudence and justice of the queen of Great Britain. However it be, it might be agreed, that the elector Palatine should enjoy, during his life, the upper Palatinate, and the first rank in the electoral college, and that after his death, both should return to the elector of Bavaria, and his successor.

This second proposal, with respect to the elector of Bavaria, would bring no alteration to the offer already made, of yielding to the Dutch for a barrier, Menen, Ipres, Furn and Furn Ambach, on the conditions before mentioned. ……… If it happens on the contrary, that the proposals made in favor of the elector of Bavaria be rejected, that he be obliged to content himself with the single restitution of Bavaria perhaps dismembered from he upper Palatinate, and the elector be deprived of the first rank in the electoral college; in this case, his majesty will only grant to the Dutch the tariff sign in May 1699.

There would still be another indemnization more honorable, but far less useful, and which his majesty would nevertheless pay, at the same rate of the reestablishment of the tariff of 1664, with the exceptions mentioned.

The Dutch, and their allies, by refusing the Low Countries to the elector of Bavaria, would probably have the same yielded to the archduke; The king will consent thereto, and moreover, his majesty will dispose that elector to yield the whole electorate of Bavaria to the house of Austria, provided the kingdom of Naples be given to that prince.

The proportion is not equal between that kingdom of the one, and the Spanish Netherlands on the other part, with a country like that of Bavaria, and so convenient to the house of Austria; but the king undertakes to supply the loss of the elector of Bavaria, and to make by the indemnization, England a considerable gainer.

The means his majesty proposes to succeed therein, is, by engaging the king of Spain to yield Sicily to that elector, so by possessing both kingdoms, he would be indemnified for what he should forsake otherwise, and the english would find their particular advantage in the conventions England might make with him for the commerce in the Mediterranean. It is not indifferent to the nation to be secure of the prince who shall be master of Messina, and the Dutch would easily prevent England, if every Sicily should fall into the hands of the archduke. This reflection will not have escaped the wisdom of the queen of Great Britain, who shows likewise her regard to the affairs of Italy, by the article which concerns the duke of Savoy.

Page cxxv, Appendix: Besides these explanations, the king will give, with an entire confidence, to the queen of Great Britain, all the explanations she will be pleased to ask him, for the good of the peace; and since she desires to know, what are the king’s dispositions with respect to the elector of Brandenburgh, and the duke of Hanover; his majesty assures her, that he will make no difficulty to acknowledge the first, as king of Prussia, and the second, as elector, when the peace is signed. The queen of Great Britain may even make use of this confidence, as she shall think most fitting for advancing the peace, and be sure that the king will not disown her. …… Upon these conditions, which sufficiently show the king’s desire of leaving the empire in peace; his majesty desires only for himself the restitution of the town of Landau; and for the allies the reestablishment of the elector of Cologne, in his dominions, benefices, and dignities; referring himself, as to what relates to the elector of Bavaria, to what has already been mentioned, with respect to that prince.

Page cxxxviii: Appendix: You are also to demand the acknowledging of the electorate, which has been erected in favor of the duke of Hanover, now elector of Brunswick and Lunenburg.

And if any difficulty shall arise, concerning the time of acknowledging his Prussian majesty, and the elector of Hanover, the ministers of France insisting not to do it until the peace be signed; and the ministers of these princes, insisting to be received as the ministers of a crowned head, and of an elector, at the first opening of the congress, you are in such case, to endeavor by some expedient to reconcile the dispute.

Page cxxxiv: Appendix: The king will consent, at the signing the peace, that the Spanish Low Countries yielded to the elector of Bavaria by the king of Spain, shall serve as a barrier to the United Provinces; and to enlarge it, he will add thereto Furnes and its district, Knock, Ipres and its district, Menin and its district. In exchange his majesty demands for forming the barrier of France, Aire, St. Vennant, Douay, Bouchain, and their dependencies.

Page 13: Appendix: 2. The king shall acknowledge the elector of Hanover.

3. The elector of Treves shall be reinstated in the possession of his town of Treves, and generally in all what belongs to him. — Dem. for Aus. He demands his reestablishment as grand prior of Castile, and the restitution of the fruits, which he pretends have only been sequestered. — K’s Ans. The king promises to obtain from the king of Spain, that the grand priorship of Castile shall be returned to the elector of Treves. As to the restitution of the fruits, his majesty promises his offices to procure it, not knowing the custom of Spain in such cases; and this is another point to be discussed with the plenipotentiaries of that crown.

Page 15: Appendix: Dem. for Aus. — K.’s Ans. The king and the king of Spain not only engaged to the elector of Bavaria to reestablish him in his dominions, but also to make him an amends for the losses he has sustained during the course of this present war. It is on this account that the catholic king has yielded to him the Spanish Netherlands if it must be that the elector must desist from them for the good of the peace, the king and the king of Spain are obliged to make him some other amends; the kingdom of Sicily is the only state which Spain can give to this prince, and to satisfy the engagements entered into with him. It is the more necessary to stipulate this condition, being it appears that the Empire oppose his being reestablished in his rank, of first elector; and that it is demanded that the Upper Palatinate should be kept by the elector Palatine, and after him by prince Charles of Neubourg, his brother; not to return to the elector of Bavaria or his children, but after the death of these princes.

6. The whole on condition that the electors of Cologne and Bavaria be reestablished in their dominions, dignities, goods, and moveables, etc. — Dem. for Aus. They will not be against the duchy of Bavaria’s being returned to the elector of that name, and that he shall be the ninth and last elector, on condition that he shall give up his pretensions to the Upper Palatinate, and the dignity of first elector, without hopes of enjoying it, but after the death of the elector Palatine, and of prince Charles of Neubourg, his brother. And as to the elector of Cologne, when he shall be reinstated in his dominions, it shall be in the choice of the allies whether they will garrison the town of Bonn, or not. — K’s. Ans. Though this condition be prejudicial to the elector of Bavaria, the king is willing to consent to it, allowing the amends of the kingdom of Sicily, because the title of king will wipe off what is shocking, in being the last elector, which they will give him instead of the first place he had in the elector college. His majesty proposes, that the fortifications of Bonn should be demolished; and this expedient seems more suitable to him, than to put a garrison in that place, which does not depend on the elector of Congress. …….. 2. The barrier shall be formed out of the Spanish Netherlands, as they are now possessed by the allies, to which Luxembourg shall be added, reserving the principality of 30,000 crowns per ann. given by the king of Spain to madam the princess des Ursini, Namur, Charleroy, Newport, Ypres, and its chatelaine, Furnes, and Furnambac, Knneque, Menin, and its district; on condition that Lille, in the state it now is in, with its dependencies, shall be returned to France as an equivalent for the demolition of Dunkirk and Tourney, with the district of Tournay, Douay, Bethune, Aire, St. Vennant, and Bouchain, in the condition they are in, with what belongs to them, as likewise all the guns and stores of war, which shall be found in them, in exchange for the places which France adds to fortify the barrier, and those which will be yielded by the elector of Bavaria, who is actually in possession of them.

Page 19: Appendix: The most christian king being very earnest to obtain some advantageous conditions for the late elector of Bavaria; you are to inform the French ministers, that we shall readily agree to have this prince restored to all which he enjoyed in the empire, except his rank of first elector, and except the Upper Palatinate, both which are to remain and belong to the elector Palatine. We think this a sufficient concession on our part in favor of the prince above mentioned, who being in possession of Namur, Luxembourg, Charleroy, and Newport, use may be made thereof in the general treaty of peace; and he may have an opportunity there, in exchange for these places and countries, to obtain something farther for himself.

Page 29: Appendix: The last point, that on which we had the warmest debates, was concerning the elector of Bavaria. As soon as I arrived at Paris, I heard that he was come to Chaillot, in the neighborhood, and M. de Torcy either was, or affected to be, under some uneasiness at the reproaches which this prince would, he said, with reason give them, unless they provided better for him than the queen had hitherto seemed inclined to allow.

……. At last he rested on this, That the queen should engage to procure for the elector the duchy and electorate of Bavaria, exclusive of the upper palatinate, and the rank in the electoral college, which I had from the first peremptorily rejected; and that she should further promise to maintain him in the possession of the duchies and towns of Luxembourg and Namur, and in the possession of Charleroy and Nieuport, until such an equivalent for these countries and places was given him, as he should be satisfied with. This proposition I positively refused to assent to, and told M. de Torcy very plainly, that leaving these towns and places in the elector’s possession till he had such an equivalent as he should be satisfied with, was really given them absolutely to him; which I knew her majesty neither could or would admit. Further, that her majesty would enter into no engagements to procure anything for the elector, or even to use her offices in his behalf; that the towns and places which this prince is in possession of would very probably be an inducement to the allies to give him something in lieu of them: that her majesty would not oppose his having Sardinia; which equivalent had bene proposed first from hence. This I let him know was the same of all he was to expect from the queen; and your lordship will find the minutes drawn accordingly.

Page 33: Appendix: I would have you therefore regard what I do in this decisive conjuncture, as new and certain marks of my friendship for you; and do me that pleasure to acknowledge hem, by interesting yourself with me in favor of the elector of Bavaria. I do not remind you of the ties of blood which united him as well to you as to me, nor of many other reasons which out to render you sensible of his condition: It is sufficient for me that you are sensible of the concern that I have in what regards him; and I am persuaded that this will be the principal motive that will press you to act in his favor.

[seemabtechno]

Newspapers from Oregon: Newspapers from Oregon is directory of Top Newspapers, Magazines, News websites, online TV and radio from Oregon. All Newspapers are free to access.

·               advocate (Mt. Hood Community College)

·               Albany Democrat Herald

·               Appeal Tribune

·               Argus Observer (Malheur County)

·               Ashland Daily Tidings

·               Baker City Herald

·               Bandon Western World

·               Barometer (Oregon State University)

·               Beacon (University of Portland)

·               Beaverton Valley Times

·               Bee

·               Bend Bulletin

·               Bend Weekly

·               Blue Mountain Eagle

·               Boom

·               Bulletin (Deschutes County)

·               Burns Times Herald

·               Business Journal

·               Canby Herald

·               Cannon Beach Gazette

·               Capital Press

·               Cascade Business News

·               Catholic Sentinel

·               Central Oregonian

·               Christian News Northwest

·               Chronicle (Columbia County)

·               Clackamas Print (Clackamas Community College)

·               Clatskanie Chief

·               Coast River Business Journal

·               Columbia Press (Clatsop County)

·               Confederated Umatilla Journal

·               Corvallis Gazette Times

·               Cottage Grove Sentinel

·               Crescent

·               Creswell Chronicle (Lane County)

·               Curry Coastal Pilot

·               Curry County Reporter

·               Daily Astorian

·               Daily Barometer

·               Daily Courier (Josephine County)

·               Daily Journal Of Commerce

·               Daily Tidings (Jackson County)

·               Dalles Chronicle (Wasco County)

·               Douglas County News

·               East County Gazette

·               East Oregonian

·               El Centinela

·               El Hispanic News

·               El Latino de Hoy

·               Emerald (University of Oregon)

·               Estacada News

·               Eugene Weekly

·               Gazette

·               Gazette-Times (Benton County)

·               Headlight Herald

·               Herald and News

·               Hermiston Herald

·               Hillsboro Argus

·               Hilltop

·               Hood River News

·               Illinois Valley News

·               Itemizer-Observer (Polk County)

·               Janco Saver

·               Journal of Commerce

·               Just Out

·               Keizertimes

·               Koos News

·               Lake County Examiner

·               Lebanon Express

·               Madras Pioneer

·               Mail Tribune

·               McKenzie River Reflections (Lane County)

·               Mid County Memo

·               Molalla Pioneer

·               New Era

·               New West

·               Newberg Graphic

·               Newberry Eagle

·               Newport News Times

·               News Guard (Lincoln County)

·               News Register

·               News Times

·               News-Review (Douglas County)

·               Nickel

·               Nickel

·               Nickel Ads

·               North Coast Citizen

·               Northwest Examiner

·               Noticias Latinas

·               Nugget

·               Nugget Newspaper

·               New York Times Oregon

·               Observer

·               Observer

·               Oregon City News

·               Oregon Coast Today

·               Oregon Commentator

·               Oregon Daily Emerald

·               Oregon Herald

·               Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association

·               Oregonian

·               Outlook

·               Pacific Index (Pacific University)

·               Polk County Itemizer Observer

·               Port Orford News

·               Port Orford Today

·               Portland Chinese Times

·               Portland Mercury

·               Portland Monthly

·               Portland News Daily

·               Portland Observer

·               Portland Tribune

·               Positively

·               Register Guard

·               Rogue River Press

·               Salem Business Journal

·               Salem Monthly

·               Salem News

·               Sandy Post

·               Seaside Signal

·               Sentinel

·               Sherwood Gazette

·               Siuslaw News (Lane County)

·               Source Weekly

·               South Coast Shopper

·               South County Spotlight

·               South Lincoln County News

·               Southeast Examiner

·               Southwest Community Connection

·               Southwest Portland Post

·               St. Helens Update

·               Statesman Journal

·               Stayton Mail

·               The Advocate

·               The Argus Observer

·               The Asian Reporter

·               The Bee

·               The Broadside

·               The Clackamas Print

·               The Columbia Press

·               The Commuter

·               The Creswell Chronicle

·               The Dalles Chronicle

·               The Grants Pass Daily Courier

·               The Gresham Outlook

·               The Index

·               The News Guard

·               The Observer (Union County)

·               The Record Courier

·               The Regal Courier

·               The Siuslaw News

·               The Skanner

·               The Springfield Beacon

·               The Umpqua Post

·               The World

·               Times

·               Torch

·               Umpqua Post (Douglas County)

·               Upper Rogue Independent

·               Valley Herald

·               Valley Times (Washington County)

·               Vanguard

·               Wallowa County Chieftain

·               West Linn Tidings

·               Western Oregon Journal

·               Wheeler County News

·               Willamette Collegian

·               Willamette Week

·               Wilsonville Spokesman

·               Woodburn Independent

·               World (Coos County)

[culinaryqueen-blog]

Mrs Orford's Fried Eggs

Mrs Orford’s Fried Eggs

This is a simple, yet delicious dish. When I first created this recipe, I was inspired by Kylie Kwong’s ‘Mrs Jang’s home-style fried eggs’ which a relative had made me a number of years back. I remember being surprised by the ingredients and my husband’s facial expression was less than impressed! Needless to say, we both ate our words and went back for seconds.

It is one of my favourite…

[theshapeishere]

In the words of the Great Wayne Campbell " (I'm) not Worthy!! " #loveher @odreyb.raby (at Orford Express)