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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
utchinson and Oliver; but the more cherished purpose of those who directed the councils of the Congress at Albany, was the secure enjoyment of the emoluments of office without responsibility to the respective American provinces. From past experiments, added Clinton and Shirley jointly, as they forwarded the ostensibly innocent petition, we are convinced that the colonies will never agree on quotas, which must, therefore, be settled by royal instructions. Clinton and Shirley to Board. N. Y. London Doe. XXVIII., 60. It is necessary for us likewise to observe to your lordships, thus they proceeded to explain their main design, on many occasions there has been so little regard paid in several colonies to the royal instructions, that it is requisite to think of some method to enforce them. Bayard's Trial at New York, 1702. What methods should be followed to reduce a factious colony had already been settled by the great masters of English jurisprudence. Two systems of government
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
nd the moon, in their annual rounds, differed by eleven days from the English reckoning of time, and would not delay their return, the legislature of a Protestant kingdom, after centuries of obstinacy, submitted to be taught by the heavens, and conquering a prejudice, adopted the calendar as amended by a pope of Rome. The Board of Trade was all the while maturing its scheme for an American civil list. Representation of the Board of Trade upon the State of New York, 2 April, 1751, in N. Y. London Doc. XXX. 5. Compare also order of the Privy Council of 6 August, 1751, and the justificatory Representation of the Lords of Trade, 4 April, 1754. London Doc. XXXI. 89. The royal prerogative was still the main-spring in their system. chap. IV.} 1751. With Bedford's approbation, Thos. Penn to Gov. Hamilton, 30 March, 1751. they advised the appointment of a new governor for New York, with a stricter commission and instructions; the New York legislature should be ordered to grant a pe
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
t that could not easily be imagined. Especially the British ministry had been invited, in 1752, to observe, that, while the consumption of tea was annually increasing in America, the export from England was decreasing. Clinton to Board of Trade, 4 October, 1752. The faction in this province consists chiefly of merchants. Entire disregard of the Laws of Trade. It is not easy to imagine to what an enormous height this transgression of the Laws of Trade goes in North America, &c., &c. N. Y. London Documents, XXX. 43. For the next twenty years, England chap. VI.} 1754. sought for a remedy; and, meantime, the little island of St. Eustatia, a heap of rocks, but two leagues in length by one in breadth, without a rivulet or a spring, gathered in its storehouses the products of Holland, of the Orient, of the world; and its harbor was more and more filled with fleets of colonial trading-vessels, which, if need were, completed their cargoes by entering the French islands with Dutch papers
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
money, was admitted by the crown. See the case prepared by Mr. Charles, the New York agent, in Smith's New York, II. 195. It was under these influences that the Assembly of New York, in a loyal address to the king, had justified their conduct. The Newcastle administration trimmed between the contending parties. It did not adopt effective measures to enforce its orders; while it yet applauded the conduct of the Board of Trade, Representation of the Board of Trade, 4 April, 1754, in N. Y. London Documents, XXXI. 39. and summarily condemned the colony by rejecting its address. Smith's New York, II. But the opinion of the best English lawyers Opinion of Hay in Smith, II. 197. No doubt this was also George Grenville's opinion. became more and more decided against the legality of a government by royal instructions; encouraging the Americans to insist on the right of their legislatures to deliberate freely and come to their own conclusions; and on the other hand leading British