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ia, 27 Nov., 1762. No one was more bent on reducing the colonies to implicit obedience than the blunt, humane, and honest, but 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, Pitt's successor, desiring, like Pitt, to conduct the negotiation from ministry to ministry, limited the powers of Bedford. The angry duke remonstrated to Bute, who just then, in company with the Duke of York, had been decorated with the order of the Garter, at a very full chapter, where Temple sat directly by his side in silent sullenness. The prime minister incurred the enmity of Egremont, by promising to ask of the cabinet a restitution to Bedford of his full powers. Are you sure of the cabinet's concurrence? asked Rigby. The king will be obeyed, replied Bute, and will talk to the two secre- chap. XIX.} 1762. taries on their scruples. And it was so. The young man of three-and-twenty subd
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 19
ustice himself, could not fail to render the office of great service to his Majesty, in securing the dependence of the colony on the crown, and its commerce to Great Britain. Pratt to the Lords of Trade, 24 May, 1762. It was further hinted, that it would insure judgments in favor of the crown against all intrusions upon the royaepresentatives. 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 frome British statute of 1740, for naturalizing foreigners, where the subjects in the colonies are plainly declared entitled to all the privileges of the people of Great Britain. In conclusion, he warned all plantation governors not to spend their whole time, as he declared most of them did, in extending the prerogative beyond all b
New Castle, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ica, 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 continue in office, said Newcastle, nor said a civil thing to me; and at last most lingeringly the veteran statesman resigned. English writers praise his disinterestedness, because the childless man, who himself possessed enormous wealth, who while in office had provided bountifully for his kindred, and who left his post only to struggle in old age to recover it and act his part anew, did not accept a pension. America gives him the better praise, that, beneath all his frivolity and follies, he had a
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
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 ch. Compare, too, Novanglus. The purpose of raising a revenue by parliament at the peace was no longer concealed; and chastisement was prepared for Maryland and Pennsylvania, the refractory provinces which had so much tasked the attention of the great English lawyers, Mansfield, Charles Yorke, and Pratt. The perseverance of Marylahe Assembly of Pennsylvania the king's high disapprobation of their artfully evading to pay any obedience to his Majesty's requisitions. Egremont to Gov. of Pennsylvania, 27 Nov., 1762. No one was more bent on reducing the colonies to implicit obedience than the blunt, humane, and honest, but self-willed Duke of Bedford, wh
Austria (Austria) (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 Age, blessed by the consecrating put a week after the declaration against Spain, the king directed measures to be taken to detach Austria from the House of Bourbon, and recover its alliance for England. The proposition was made ththe 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 cwas an outrage on the laws of nations; the proposition, if accepted, equally implied perfidy in Austria towards France. Her Imperial Majesty and her minister, said Kaunitz, cannot understand the proIt was evidently the royal wish to compel Frederic to the hard necessity of ceding territory to Austria. A statement was demanded of him of his idea on the subject of peace, and of his resources for
Versailles (France) (search for this): chapter 19
. 466 in April, spite of redoubled misfortunes, chap. XIX.} 1762. should have confidence in the solidity of their existence. If I were the master, we would stand against England as Spain did against the Moors; and if this course were truly adopted, England would be 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 for discussion through the ministers of Sardinia in London and Versailles; and after passing April in the consideration of plans, early in May Bute was able to submit to Bedford his project. I am glad of the peace as it has been chalked out, said Bedford; a much longer continuance of the war, however relieved by the lustre of farther conquests, 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 good peace with foreign enemies, said Hutchinson, from Mass
St. Lucia (Saint Lucia) (search for this): chapter 19
the end of March, news reached Europe of victories in the West Indies, achieved by Monckton with an army of twelve thousand men, assisted 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
Porto Rico (search for this): chapter 19
stacles of nature and art, were surmounted, and the most decisive victory of the war was completed. The scene in the British cabinet was changed by the capture of Havana. Bute was indifferent to further acquisitions in America, for he held it of much greater importance to bring the old colonies into order than to plant new ones; Knox Extra official papers, II. 29. but all his colleagues thought otherwise; and Bedford was unwilling to restore Havana to Spain except for the 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 aristocracy; Wilkes,
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
t a provision would be made for their independent support. Bernard to Shelburne, 4 January, 1767. Compare, too, Novanglus. The purpose of raising a revenue by parliament at the peace was no longer concealed; and chastisement was prepared for Maryland and Pennsylvania, the refractory provinces which had so much tasked the attention of the great English lawyers, Mansfield, Charles Yorke, and Pratt. The perseverance of Maryland in disobeying the royal requisition was laid before the king, who Maryland in disobeying the royal requisition was laid before the king, who expressed what was called just displeasure at the obstinate disobedience of the Assembly of that province. He censured them as not animated by a sense of their duty to their king and country. Though there is little room, added Egremont, to expect a change in persons who seem determined to adhere to their own opinion, his Majesty has judged it proper to direct me chap. XIX.} 1762. to express his sentiments on the conduct of the Assembly of your province, that they may not deceive themselves b
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
stre of farther conquests, 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 good peace with foreign enemies, said Hutchinson, from Massachusetts, as early as March, would enable us to make a better defence against our domestic foes.. The relations of Ireland and of America to the British king and the British parliament were held to be the same. By Poyning's Act, as it was called, nossembly to be equal to those of the House of Commons, and that to raise or chap. XIX.} 1762. apply money without its consent, was as great an innovation as for the king and House of Lords to usurp legislative authority. The privileges of Massachusetts, it was held, were safe under the shelter of its charter and the common law; yet Otis did not fail to cite, also, the preamble to the British statute of 1740, for naturalizing foreigners, where the subjects in the colonies are plainly declare
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