...found yourself in the hands of those barbarians ? " asked a Member of the House ; to which the captain replied, " I recommended my soul to God and my cause to my country." The severed ear he exhibited in Parliament as he had done elsewhere whenever he told the story. It was...

...The House of Commons took up the case, and Jenkins, when asked how he felt while thus abused, said, " I recommended my soul to God and my cause to my country." The answer was made a political war cry, and touched a chord of popular sympathy. However, it is by no...

...The House of Commons took up the case, and Jenkins, when asked how he felt while thus abused, said, " I recommended my soul to God and my cause to my country." The answer was made a political war cry, and touched a chord of popular sympathy. However, it is by no...

...upon having been asked by a member what were his feelings at the moment of the outrage, Jenkins had replied: "I recommended my soul to God, and my cause to my country." Spain at length agreed to make some reparation, and to settle outstanding differences. The convention...

...those barbarians?" asked a member of parliament. Holding aloft the ear, he cried in a stentorian voice, "I recommended my soul to God and my cause to my country!" The anger of England swept parliament off its feet, and the complacent disregard of Spanish insolence in...

...Spaniard, who, beside treating him with great cruelty in other respects, cut off one of bis ears and bade him carry it to his king, whom he would serve in the...said he had lost it on a very different occasion. Various attempts were made by Walpole to settle the Spanish matter by negotiation; at length (1739),...

...Spaniard, who, beside treating him with great cruelty in other respects, cut off one of his ears and bade him carry it to his king, whom he would serve in the...recommended my soul to God and my cause to my country." n 7:;<.>-i7u AD ] The story produced such an effect that Pulteney declared that the very name of Jenkins...

...vowed it had been cut off by Spaniards, whose violence had been such that, despairing of life he had 'recommended my soul to God and my cause to my country,' the nation flamed up, passed round the cry of 'no search,' and refusing to be satisfied with the compensations...

...Jenkins's ears, and he may have suggested to that perjured mariner the phrase which set England aflame, " I recommended my soul to God and my cause to my country." He declined silk when Lord Hardwicke, at the Duke of Newcastle's instance, made him the offer, and...

...suffering the cruel indignity, he said (surely some one skilled in oratorical claptrap prompted him), " I recommended my soul to God and my cause to my country." The country accordingly loaded the tables of the House of Commons with petitions for vengeance on the Spaniards,...