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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 51: (search)
parliament, and then replied by enclosing a copy of the intended speech. Hastening to court, Grafton complained of the violent, injudicious, and impracticable schemes of the ministers, framed in age; but when he announced that a numerous body of German troops was to join the British forces, Grafton answered earnestly: Your majesty will find too late that twice the number will only increase thpeared uncouth; but the debate Chap. LI.} 1775. Nov. which he opened had no effect except that Grafton took part with him, and as a consequence resigned his place as keeper of the privy seal. Everyld have included Grenville; it retained Rockingham, Grenville's successor; it had now recovered Grafton, Chatham's successor; and Lord North, who succeeded Grafton, sided with Germain and Sandwich onGrafton, sided with Germain and Sandwich only by spasms, and though he loved his place, was more against his own ministry than for it. The king's policy was not in harmony with the England of the Revolution, nor with that of the eighteenth ce