...urse with England, sedulously continued its offers of mediation. Lest their ambassador at London should betray the secret, he was kept in the dark, and misled; Grantham, the British ambassador at Madrid , hoodwinked by the stupendous dissimulation of Florida Blanca, wrote home in January, 1779: I really believe this court is sincere in wishing to bring about a pacification; and, at the end of March,...