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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 22: (search)
! The House of Lords accepted the argument of Mansfield as unanswerable, and when the house divided, only five peers, Camden, Shelburne, and the young Cornwallis——destined to a long and chequered career, —Torrington, and Paulet, went down below the bar. With these five, stood the invisible genius of popular reform; they began a strife which the child that was unborn would rue or would bless. The rest of the peers, one hundred and twenty-five H. Hammersley. Garth to South Carolina, 9 Feb. 1766. in number, saw with derision the small number of the visionaries. As chap. XXII.} 1766. Feb. for Camden himself, they said Mansfield had utterly prostrated him. De Guerchy au Duc de Praslin, 4 Fevrier, 1766. Even while Mansfield was explaining to the House of Lords, that the American theory of representation included in its idea a thorough reform of the British House of Commons, George the Third was led to offer a pension of a hundred guineas a year to the Genevese republican, <
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 23: (search)
dismiss those who opposed him, refused his assent. Grafton's Autobiography. On the night of the fifth of February, the same question came up in the House of Commons, where chap. XXIII.} 1766. Feb. Pitt spoke at length, with tact and gentleness. The coalition was, for the moment, thoroughly defeated; and at last the house, with considerable unanimity, contented itself with changing the proposition of the ministry into a resolution, declaratory of its opinion. Garth to S. Carolina, 9 Feb., 1766. It was known that the House of Lords would nevertheless persevere; and on Thursday, the sixth, it attracted the world Chatham Corr. II., 376. The letter is strangely misdated. Its true date is 6 Feb. to witness its proceedings. To keep up appearances, Bute rose and declared his most lively attachment to the person of the king, yet the interest of his country must weigh with him more than any other consideration; the king himself would not blame him or other lords for obeying t