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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
o H. Sharpe, 10 July, 1762. The despatch bore the impress of George the Third, and shadowed forth his intentions. The reprimand of the legislature of Pennsylvania was delayed till Sir Jeffrey Amherst could report its disregard of his final appeal. On receiving from him full accounts, a similar letter conveyed to the 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, 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 be