George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.

[61] would not venture to supersede him. Whom will

Chap. Xxviii} 1767. March

Chatham next recommend? asked the King, through Grafton; and no other could be named. This was a new humiliation. Chatham saw his adversary exposed defenceless to his will; and the shaft which his aged and enfeebled hand tremulously hurled at him, fell harmless at his own feet. He could endure no more. ‘We cannot remain in office together;’ said he of Townshend, and he asked the Duke of Grafton himself to call the next Council at his own house.¹ The accumulation of grief destroyed what little of health remained to him; he withdrew from business and became invisible even to Camden and to Grafton.

Here, in fact, Chatham's Administration was at an end.² Transmitting to his substitute every question of domestic, foreign and colonial policy unsettled, the British Agamemnon retired to his tent, leaving the subordinate chiefs to quarrel for the direction.