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of London by a large guard, and confined as a state's prisoner in the tower, where he was debarred from all intercourse, and from the use of pen and paper, so as to produce upon the public mind a strange and startling sensation. When the courier from Petersburg arrived at the Hague with the treaty that Panin had drafted, Stormont saw there was no time to be lost. If the states should relinquish the demand of a general guarantee, thus on the eleventh of October he in- Chap. XX.} 1780. Oct. 31. structed Yorke, and accede to the neutral convention, such an event would leave us no alternative. Stormont to Yorke, 11 Oct., 1780. On the last day of October, Yorke announced that the states-general, at their meeting in the first week of November, would disavow the transaction between Am- Nov. sterdam and America, but would decide to join the northern league. I am afraid, he said, we must proceed alone, and advise an immediate declaration. Yorke to Stormont, 31 Oct., 1780. On