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February 12th, 1768 AD (search for this): chapter 7
evenue Act had been carried through. The Rubicon is past. Compare the Narrative in Bernard to Shelburne, 14 Sept. 1767.—We will form one universal combination, it was whispered, to eat nothing, drink nothing, and wear nothing imported from Great Britain. Compare Letter of Hutchinson, 18 July, 1767. The Fourteenth of August was commemorated as the Anniversary of the first resistance to the Stamp Act. Memorial of Commissioners of Customs in America, to the Lord of the Treasury, 12 February, 1768. The intended appropriation of the new revenue, to make the crown officers independent of the people, stung the patriots to madness. Such counsels, they said, will deprive the prince who now sways the British sceptre Chap. XXX.} 1767. Aug. of millions of free subjects. Britannus Americanus, in Boston Gazette, 545, 2, 1, of 17 August, 1767. And when it was con– sidered, that Mansfield and the Ministry declared Aug. some of the grants in colonial Charters to be nugatory on the grou
August 22nd (search for this): chapter 7
liance than on the English constitution as it was, and the charitable purchase of venal boroughs by opulent noblemen of his connection. May the anarchy in the British government last for ages, wrote Choiseul. Choiseul to Durand, Cornpiegne, 4 August, 1767; La minute de cette Depeche étoit de la main du Due de Choiseul. Your prayer will be Chap. XXX.} 1767. Aug. heard, answered Durand, then in London as Minister. Durand to Choiseul, August, 1767. No date of the day. The P. S. is 22 August. The opposition during this reign will always be strong, for the cabinet will always be divided; but the genius of the nation, concentrating itself on commerce and Colonies, compensates the inferiority of the men in power, and makes great advances without their guidance. My position, observed Choiseul as he contemplated, alike in Asia and in America, the undisputed ascendency of the nation which he called his enemy, From the Dispatch of the fourth of August. is the most vexatious possi
September 17th, 1767 AD (search for this): chapter 7
more, Ministers would not be more stable. Durand to Choiseul, 16 Sept. 1767. Following his own sure instinct, he directed that the vacant place Chap. XXX.} 1767. Sept. should be offered to Lord North. Receiving the summons, North hastened to London, declined the office from fear of his inability to cope with Grenville on questions of finance, returned to the country, and changed his mind just in season to accept North to Grafton, 10 Sept. 1767. Charles Lloyd to Lord Lyttelton, 17 Sept. 1767; Lyttelton's Life, 733, 734. before the appointment of another. At that time Lord North was thirty-five years old, having seen the light in the same year with Washington. While the great Virginian employed himself as a careful planter, or fulfilled his trust as a colonial legislator, or, in his hour of leisure, leaning against the primeval oaks on the lawn at Mount Vernon, in full view of the thickly forested hill which now bears the Capitol, mused on the destinies of his country and
August 24th (search for this): chapter 7
in Boston Gazette, 545, 2, 1, of 17 August, 1767. And when it was con– sidered, that Mansfield and the Ministry declared Aug. some of the grants in colonial Charters to be nugatory on the ground of their extent, the press of Boston, in concert with New-York, Bernard to Shelburne, 14 Sept. 1767. following the precedent set by Molineux in his argument for Ireland, reasoned the matter through to its logical conclusion. Liberty, said the earnest writer, In the Boston Gazette of the 24th of August, appeared a paper taken from Molineux's Case of Ireland, with variations to adapt it to America. is the inherent right of all mankind. Ireland has its own Parliament and makes laws; and English statutes do not bind them, says Lord Coke, because they send no knights to Parliament. The same reason holds good as to America. Consent only gives human laws their force. Therefore the Parliament of England cannot extend their jurisdiction beyond their constituents. Advancing the powers of t
September 16th, 1767 AD (search for this): chapter 7
d good means of information; Grafton says that Grenville was never liked by the King; and the Grenville Diary for 1765, fully accounts for the King's invincible repugnance to a minister whose stubbornness had made him turn red and even shed tears.—The King himself has the greatest distrust of those who would rule him, so that he never will let any one prevail, said the Princess Amelia; were Bute and the Princess of Wales no more, Ministers would not be more stable. Durand to Choiseul, 16 Sept. 1767. Following his own sure instinct, he directed that the vacant place Chap. XXX.} 1767. Sept. should be offered to Lord North. Receiving the summons, North hastened to London, declined the office from fear of his inability to cope with Grenville on questions of finance, returned to the country, and changed his mind just in season to accept North to Grafton, 10 Sept. 1767. Charles Lloyd to Lord Lyttelton, 17 Sept. 1767; Lyttelton's Life, 733, 734. before the appointment of another.
September 14th, 1767 AD (search for this): chapter 7
lluring to Choiseul; and he judged correctly of the nearness of the conflict. The die is thrown, said men in Boston, on hearing the Revenue Act had been carried through. The Rubicon is past. Compare the Narrative in Bernard to Shelburne, 14 Sept. 1767.—We will form one universal combination, it was whispered, to eat nothing, drink nothing, and wear nothing imported from Great Britain. Compare Letter of Hutchinson, 18 July, 1767. The Fourteenth of August was commemorated as the Anniversat, 1767. And when it was con– sidered, that Mansfield and the Ministry declared Aug. some of the grants in colonial Charters to be nugatory on the ground of their extent, the press of Boston, in concert with New-York, Bernard to Shelburne, 14 Sept. 1767. following the precedent set by Molineux in his argument for Ireland, reasoned the matter through to its logical conclusion. Liberty, said the earnest writer, In the Boston Gazette of the 24th of August, appeared a paper taken from Moli
September 11th, 1767 AD (search for this): chapter 7
of the Ministry, of which his death seemed to presage the overthrow. Choiseul, See many of his letters to the embassy at London. a good judge, esteemed Grenville by far the ablest financier in England, and greatly feared his return to office. It was believed, that on the day of Townshend's death, Grafton advised the recall of Grenville; and that the King replied with strong emotion, Never speak to me again of that man; for I never, my life long, will see him. Durand to Choiseul, 11 Sept. 1767. That the King spoke very civilly to Lord Suffolk respecting his enemy Grenville after Grenville's death only illustrates a proverb of two thousand years ago. The letter of Durand is not conclusive, but Walpole had good means of information; Grafton says that Grenville was never liked by the King; and the Grenville Diary for 1765, fully accounts for the King's invincible repugnance to a minister whose stubbornness had made him turn red and even shed tears.—The King himself has the great
August 14th (search for this): chapter 7
f emancipating the whole colonial world was alluring to Choiseul; and he judged correctly of the nearness of the conflict. The die is thrown, said men in Boston, on hearing the Revenue Act had been carried through. The Rubicon is past. Compare the Narrative in Bernard to Shelburne, 14 Sept. 1767.—We will form one universal combination, it was whispered, to eat nothing, drink nothing, and wear nothing imported from Great Britain. Compare Letter of Hutchinson, 18 July, 1767. The Fourteenth of August was commemorated as the Anniversary of the first resistance to the Stamp Act. Memorial of Commissioners of Customs in America, to the Lord of the Treasury, 12 February, 1768. The intended appropriation of the new revenue, to make the crown officers independent of the people, stung the patriots to madness. Such counsels, they said, will deprive the prince who now sways the British sceptre Chap. XXX.} 1767. Aug. of millions of free subjects. Britannus Americanus, in Boston Gaze
September 12th, 1767 AD (search for this): chapter 7
which he had laid a duty; and avenge themselves on England by importing no more British goods. At the beginning of this excitement, Charles Sept. Townshend was seized with fever, and after a short illness, during which he met danger with the unconcerned levity that had marked his conduct of the most serious affairs, Walpole's Memoirs of George III. III. 99. he died at the age of forty-one, famed alike for incomparable talents, and extreme instability. W. S. Johnson to E. Dyer, 12 Sept. 1767, and other letters of Johnson. Where were now his gibes? Letters of Lady Hervey, Sept. 1767. Where his flashes of merriment that set the table in a roar; his brilliant eloquence which made him the wonder of Parliament? If his indiscretion forbade esteem, his good-humor dissipated hate. He had been courted by all parties, but never possessed the confidence of any. He followed no guide, and he had no plan of his own. No one wished him as an adversary; no one trusted him as an associat
September 10th, 1767 AD (search for this): chapter 7
ss Amelia; were Bute and the Princess of Wales no more, Ministers would not be more stable. Durand to Choiseul, 16 Sept. 1767. Following his own sure instinct, he directed that the vacant place Chap. XXX.} 1767. Sept. should be offered to Lord North. Receiving the summons, North hastened to London, declined the office from fear of his inability to cope with Grenville on questions of finance, returned to the country, and changed his mind just in season to accept North to Grafton, 10 Sept. 1767. Charles Lloyd to Lord Lyttelton, 17 Sept. 1767; Lyttelton's Life, 733, 734. before the appointment of another. At that time Lord North was thirty-five years old, having seen the light in the same year with Washington. While the great Virginian employed himself as a careful planter, or fulfilled his trust as a colonial legislator, or, in his hour of leisure, leaning against the primeval oaks on the lawn at Mount Vernon, in full view of the thickly forested hill which now bears the C
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