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Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
on of fishermen. Otis, in September, 1762, seized the opportunity in a report to claim the right of originating all taxes as the most darling privilege of the representatives. It would be of little consequence to the people, said he, on the floor of the House, whether they were subject to George or Louis, the king of Great Britain, or the French king, if both were arbitrary, as both would be, if both could levy taxes without parliament. Treason! treason! shouted Paine, the member from Worcester. There is not chap. XIX.} 1762. the least ground, said Bernard in a message, for the insinuation under color of which that sacred and well beloved name is brought into question. Otis, who was fiery, but not obstinate, erased the offensive words, as his sentiments were fully expressed without them; but immediately, claiming to be one Who dared to love his country and be poor, he vindicated himself through the press. Invoking the authority of the most wise, most honest, and most im
Halifax (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 19
ministers. Bedford remained privy seal; Egremont, Grenville's brother-in-law, secretary of state for the Southern Department and America; while the able Lord North retained his seat at the Treasury Board. Early in June, on the death of Anson, Halifax returned from Ireland to join the cabinet as first lord of the admiralty. Charles Townshend was still secretary at war, yet having that confidence in his own genius which made him restless in occupying a station inferior to Grenville's. The he cession of Porto Rico and the Floridas. The king, who persisted in the purpose of peace, intervened. He himself solicited the assent of Cumberland to his policy; he caused George Grenville, who hesitated to adopt his views, to exchange with Halifax the post of secretary of state for that of the head of the admiralty; and he purchased the support of Fox as a member of the cabinet and leader of the House of Commons by the offer of a peerage. These movements enraged both the people and the a
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 19
hat of his brother, Earl of Temple, at the installation. Lord Egremont was wise enough to fly into a passion in the closet. I have but one sentiment to offer, said he to the king,—which is, to send the Duke of Bedford fixed articles for the preliminaries, upon no event to be changed, and if the French refuse to comply, immediately to recall him. The sentiment, said George, who repeated the conversation, is totally different from mine; a boy of ten years old might as well have been sent to Paris on this errand. The secretary yielded, and some subjects were left at the discretion of Bedford; but Bute, with singular perfidy, indirectly, through the Sardinian minister, and in his own handwriting, communicated Wiffen's House of Russell, II. 506. to the French ambassador the decision adopted, and even minutes of the advice given by the various members of the cabinet council, on condition that the details should be kept religiously from Spain, and from the Duke of Bedford. Thus the m
Dominican Republic (Dominican Republic) (search for this): chapter 19
d by Rodney and a fleet of sixteen sail of the line and thirteen frigates. On the seventh of January, the British armament appeared off Martinico, the richest and best of the French colonies, strongly guarded by natural defences, which art had improved. Yet, on the fourteenth of February, the governor and inhabitants were forced to capitulate. Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent's, were soon after occupied; so that the outer Caribbee Islands, in the whole extent of the arc which bends from St. Domingo towards the continent of South America, were British. For the siege of Havana the continental colonies were ordered to contribute quotas of men, and reinforcements were on their way from England. These successes gave new courage to the king's friends to pursue their system. Newcastle, who had received all kinds of disgusts from his associates in the cabinet, seized the occasion of withholding the subsidy from Prussia to indulge with Bute his habit of chap XIX.} 1762. complaint. Bu
Rockingham, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ed the assent of Cumberland to his policy; he caused George Grenville, who hesitated to adopt his views, to exchange with Halifax the post of secretary of state for that of the head of the admiralty; and he purchased the support of Fox as a member of the cabinet and leader of the House of Commons by the offer of a peerage. These movements enraged both the people and the aristocracy; Wilkes, through The North Briton, inflamed the public mind; while the Duke of Devonshire and the Marquis of Rockingham resigned their offices in the royal household. An opposition seemed certain; nor was it expected by the friends of the prerogative, that ancient systems of power would fall to the ground without a struggle. Lord John Russell's Introduction to vol. III. of the Bedford Correspondence, XXVII. The king's rest is not disturbed, said Bute; he is pleased to have people fairly take off the mask, and looks with the utmost contempt on what he sees is going forward; Wiffen, II. 503. and on t
South America (search for this): chapter 19
l of the line and thirteen frigates. On the seventh of January, the British armament appeared off Martinico, the richest and best of the French colonies, strongly guarded by natural defences, which art had improved. Yet, on the fourteenth of February, the governor and inhabitants were forced to capitulate. Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent's, were soon after occupied; so that the outer Caribbee Islands, in the whole extent of the arc which bends from St. Domingo towards the continent of South America, were British. For the siege of Havana the continental colonies were ordered to contribute quotas of men, and reinforcements were on their way from England. These successes gave new courage to the king's friends to pursue their system. Newcastle, who had received all kinds of disgusts from his associates in the cabinet, seized the occasion of withholding the subsidy from Prussia to indulge with Bute his habit of chap XIX.} 1762. complaint. But the Earl never requested me to conti
France (France) (search for this): chapter 19
Spain. Behold, then, at last, the great league of the Roman Catholic powers, France, Spain, Austria, and the German Empire, the mighty authorities of the Middle Agity were already safe. The character of the war was changed. The alliance of France and Spain had been made under the influence chap. XIX.} 1762. of Choiseul, a ptions; the proposition, if accepted, equally implied perfidy in Austria towards France. Her Imperial Majesty and her minister, said Kaunitz, cannot understand the prbe reduced and destroyed within thirty years. But the exhausted condition of France compelled her to seek peace; in February and March, the subject had been opened is likely to prove fatal to the nation; and in July he accepted the embassy to France, though the appointment was not declared till the first of September. A goodbut self-willed Duke of Bedford, who, on the sixth day of September, sailed for France with full powers to negotiate a peace. Scarcely was he gone, before Egremont,
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
lled, no bill could be accepted in Ireland, until it had been transmitted to England, and returned with the assent of the Privy Council. The principle had already been applied by royal instructions to particular branches of American legislation. The design began to be more and more openly avowed, of chap. XIX.} 1762. demanding a suspending clause in every act. It had been already decided that every American judge should hold his appointment at the royal pleasure. Hardy, governor of New Jersey, having violated his instructions, by issuing a commission during good behavior, was promptly dismissed; and at a time when the new-modelling of the charter governments was contemplated, William Franklin, the only son of the great adversary of the proprietaries of Pennsylvania, to the extreme astonishment and rage of the younger Penn, at the suggestion of Bute, became his successor. When New York refused to vote salaries to its chief justice, unless he should receive an independent comm
Preussen (search for this): chapter 19
The experienced diplomatist promptly hinted to his employers that offers from Prussia, that is, the offer of the restoration of Silesia, would be more effective. Aavorite held it necessary to break or bend the firmness of will of the king of Prussia; and with that view invoked the interposition of Russia. The female autocrat would aid the emperor to retain a part of the conquests made from the king of Prussia, if he would continue to hold him in check. But the chivalric Czar, indignantf Silesia, and finally transferred a Russian army to his camp. The fact, that Prussia had transformed Russia from an enemy into an ally, while England had a new ene dependent in Portugal, gave a plausible reason for discontinuing the grant to Prussia. Still the subsidy was promised; but the condition of the bounty Bute to Mssociates in the cabinet, seized the occasion of withholding the subsidy from Prussia to indulge with Bute his habit of chap XIX.} 1762. complaint. But the Earl n
Silesia (search for this): chapter 19
e ulterior acquisitions in Italy. The experienced diplomatist promptly hinted to his employers that offers from Prussia, that is, the offer of the restoration of Silesia, would be more effective. A clandestine proposition from England to Austria was itself a treachery to Frederic and a violation of treaties; it became doubly so, when the consequence of success in the negotiation would certainly have been the employment of England's influence to compel Frederic to the cession of Silesia. To promise acquisitions in Italy, with all whose powers England was at peace, was an outrage on the laws of nations; the proposition, if accepted, equally implied perfidy mpire with his illustrious friend, restored all the conquests that had been made from the kingdom to that prince, settled with him a peace including a guaranty of Silesia, and finally transferred a Russian army to his camp. The fact, that Prussia had transformed Russia from an enemy into an ally, while England had a new enemy in S
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