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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
Chapter 6: The triumvirate ministry pursue the plan of taxing America by parliament. April, May, 1763. George the Third was revered by his courtiers as CHAP. VI.} 1763. April. realizing the idea of a patriot king. The Annual Register: Gov. Bernard, in a speech to the Legislature of Massachusetts. He would espouse no party, rule by no faction, and employ none but those who would conduct affairs on his own principles. The watchword of his friends was a coalition of parties, in the spirit of dutiful obedience, so that he might select ministers from among them all, and he came to the throne resolved to begin to govern as soon as he should begin to reign. Bolingbroke's Patriot King, 77. Yet the established constitution was more immovable than his designs. Pitt did not retire from the ministry till the country was growing weary of his German war, and a majority in the British cabinet opposed his counsels. Newcastle, so long the representative of a cabal of the oligar
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 7: (search)
who had not much alertness or sagacity, while he prepared reinforcements, pleased himself with calling the acts of the Indians unwarrantable; hoped they would be too sensible of their own interest to conspire against the English; and declared that if they did, he wished them to know that, in his eyes, they would make a contemptible figure. Yes, he repeated, a contemptible figure. The mischief would recoil on themselves, and end in their destruction. Letter of Amherst to Major Gladwin, May, 1763. But Pontiac, the colossal chief of the North West, the king and lord of all that country; Rogers: Account of North America. a Catawba William Smith to H. Gates, 22 November, 1763. Gladwin speaks of the Ottawa Nation as Pontiac's Nation. A less authority than that of Smith might not deserve to be regarded; but Smith is one of the accurate. prisoner, as is said, adopted into the clan of the Ottawas, and elected their chief; Gladwin to Amherst, 14 May, 1763. respected, and in