This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,This other Eden, demi-Paradise,This fortress built by Nature for herselfAgainst infection and the hand of war,This happy breed of men, this little world,This precious stone set in the silver sea,Which serves it in the office of a wallOr as a moat defensive to a house,Against the envy of less happier lands....
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,This other Eden, demi-Paradise,This fortress built by Nature for herselfAgainst infection and the hand of war,This happy breed of men, this little world,This precious stone set in the silver sea,Which serves it in the office of a wallOr as a moat defensive to a house,Against the envy of less happier lands....
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,This other Eden, demi-Paradise,This fortress built by Nature for herselfAgainst infection and the hand of war,This happy breed of men, this little world,This precious stone set in the silver sea,Which serves it in the office of a wallOr as a moat defensive to a house,Against the envy of less happier lands....
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-Paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands....
The editor went on to declare, more prosaically, that "To hang the safety of England at some most critical instant upon the correct working of a tap, or of any mechanical contrivance, is quite beyond the faith of this generation of Englishmen."
Almost at the instant that the heavy blow of the petition inThe Nineteenth Centuryfell upon the tunnel promoters, the Board of Trade sent down a real thunderbolt upon their heads. On April 1, the Board of Trade wrote Sir EdwardWatkin that, whatever might be the title to the foreshore at Shakespeare Cliff, there was no doubt as to the title of the Crown under the bed of the sea below low-water mark and within the three-mile limit. It informed him that according to the department's calculations, based on a tracing of the tunnel route previously obtained from the Submarine Continental Railway Company, the boring of the tunnel now must necessarily be close to the point of low-water mark. And, as a consequence, the Board of Trade instructed the company that, pending the outcome of the Government's deliberations on the military security of the tunnel, it must suspend its boring operations forthwith and give the Government assurances to that effect.
Footnotes.[1]An Anglo-French Joint Commission formed to set up agreements on the jurisdiction of the two countries over the Channel tunnel in 1876 actually drew up a protocol for a channel-tunnel treaty between England and France. The Commission agreed to the jurisdiction of each government ceasing at a point to be marked in the center of the tunnel and it recommended that the tunnel be regulated by a specially appointed international body.
Footnotes.[1]An Anglo-French Joint Commission formed to set up agreements on the jurisdiction of the two countries over the Channel tunnel in 1876 actually drew up a protocol for a channel-tunnel treaty between England and France. The Commission agreed to the jurisdiction of each government ceasing at a point to be marked in the center of the tunnel and it recommended that the tunnel be regulated by a specially appointed international body.
Footnotes.
[1]An Anglo-French Joint Commission formed to set up agreements on the jurisdiction of the two countries over the Channel tunnel in 1876 actually drew up a protocol for a channel-tunnel treaty between England and France. The Commission agreed to the jurisdiction of each government ceasing at a point to be marked in the center of the tunnel and it recommended that the tunnel be regulated by a specially appointed international body.
[1]An Anglo-French Joint Commission formed to set up agreements on the jurisdiction of the two countries over the Channel tunnel in 1876 actually drew up a protocol for a channel-tunnel treaty between England and France. The Commission agreed to the jurisdiction of each government ceasing at a point to be marked in the center of the tunnel and it recommended that the tunnel be regulated by a specially appointed international body.