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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
nd, St. Lucia. Secret instructions from the king to Sir H. Clinton, 21 March, 1778. As the commissioners stepped on shore to receive June. the submission of the colonies, The particular and elaborate orders and instructions to the commissioners from the king, 12 April, 1778; and Germain to the commissioners of the same date. and on their submission to pardon their rebellion, they found to their extreme surprise and chagrin Commissioners to Lord George Germain, Philadelphia, 15 June, 1778, and particularly postscript by Governor Johnstone. that orders for the immediate evacuation of Philadelphia had preceded them, and were just being executed. About three thousand of the most tenderly bred of the inhabitants were escaping to embark in British ships. The commission, it was said, can do no good now: if Philadelphia is left to the rebels, independence is acknowledged, and America lost. In the streets that lately had the air of one continuous marketday, the stillness was br