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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., The crisis (search)
gham suggested a coalition Duke of Richmond's Journal in Albemarle, i. 349. with the Duke of Bedford. In saloons, female politicians, at their game of loo, divined the ruin of the Ministry, and were zealots for governing the colonies by the hand of power. Rigby to Bedford, in Bedford Cor., 4 June, 1766. In America half suppressed murmurs mingled with the general transport. Arbitrary Bedford Cor., 4 June, 1766. In America half suppressed murmurs mingled with the general transport. Arbitrary taxation by Parliament Philalethes in Holt's Gazette, No. 1218, 8 May, 1766. began to be compared with restrictions on industry and trade, and the latter were found to be Chap. XXV.} 1766. May.74. Concurrently, Rigby, as the leader of the Bedford June. party, Rigby to the Duke of Bedford, 4 June, 1766, in Bedford Correspondence, III. 336. on the third day of June, proposed in the B railed mercilessly at the Ministers, in a mixed strain of wit, oratory, and abuse; Rigby to Bedford, 4 June, 1766. so that, notwithstanding a spirited speech from Conway, and a negative to the mo
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 26: (search)
ter was brought from the King's own hand, reminding him that his last words in the House of Commons had been a declaration of freedom from party ties, Rigby to Bedford, 24 April, 1766. Bedford Correspondence, III. 333. and inviting him to form an independent Ministry. The King to Pitt, 7 July, 1766. Chatham Correspondence, d of her family, and their common benefactor, to become the First Lord of the Treasury. But Temple, who had connected himself with Grenville Geo. Grenville to Bedford, 15 July, 1766, in Bedford Corr. III. 340. and the party of Bedford, refused to unite with the friends of Rockingham; and, having told the King, he would not go Bedford, refused to unite with the friends of Rockingham; and, having told the King, he would not go into the Ministry like a child, to come out like a fool, Inquiry into the Conduct of a late Right Honorable Commoner, Durand, to Due de Choiseul, 3 Juillet, 1766. Temple to Lady Chatham, Chat. Corr. II. 469. he returned to Stowe, repeating this speech to the world, dictating a scurrilous pamphlet against his brother-in-law, an
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 31: (search)
, in Works, VII. 369. N. Rogers to Hutchinson, 30 Dec. 1767. Miscellaneous letters ascribed to Junius, x. XXIX. and XXXI. in Bohm's edition, II. 146, 193, 199. Bedford himself objected to Grenville's Test for America; Lyttelton to Temple, in Lyttelton, 741. and preferred making an example of some one seditious fellow. The Ki a hack, than for a gentleman, Grenville Papers, IV. 184. he proceeded to construct a Ministry that would be disunited and docile. On the fifth of December, Bedford, now almost Dec. blind and near his end, just before the removal of cataracts from his eyes, told Grenville, that his age, his infirmities and his tastes disinclll as the most malignant against America; while Rigby was made Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, till he could get the Pay-Office. All five were friends of the Duke of Bedford, and united re- Chap. XXXI.} 1767. Dec. specting America in one opinion, which it was pretended Grafton also had accepted. Israel Mauduit to Hutchinson, 15 De