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rity of Parliament. Instructions to Lord Botetourt, dated 21 August, 1768. It would have been ill for American Independence, if a man like him had been sent to Massachusetts. But with Massachusetts, said Camden, See Camden to Grafton, 4 Sept. 1768, in Grafton's Autobiography. it will not be very difficult to deal, if that is the only disobedient Province. For Boston his voice did not entreat mercy. Grafton's Memoirs intimate no dissent on his part or on Camden's. They both joined inneous. Therefore it must execute the law. How to execute it, I am at a loss. Boston is the ringleading Province; and if any country is to be chastised, the punishment ought to be levelled there. Grafton's Autobiography, Camden to Grafton, 4 Sept. 1768. Campbell, v. 279, dates the Letter 4 Oct. But the system which made government subordinate to the gains of patronage, was every where producing its natural results. In South Carolina, the profits of the place of Provost-Marshal were enj
o, I will go where you lead. But now he encouraged Grafton to slight Chap. XXXVII.} 1768. Oct. their justly dissatisfied benefactor, as brooding over his own suspicions and discontent. Lord Camden to the Duke of Grafton, 29 Sept. 1768; in Campbell's Chancellors, v. 277. I will never retire upon a scanty income, he added, unless I should be forced by something more compelling than the Earl of Shelburne's removal. You are my pole star, Chatham being eclipsed. Camden to Grafton, 4 September, 1768. The date of 4 Sept. seems to me the correct one. Grafton wished earnestly to gain Chatham's acquiescence in the proposed change, and repaired to Hayes to give assurances, that no new bias swayed him from the connection, to which his faith was pledged. My Lord's health, answered the Countess, is too weak to admit of any communication of business; but I am able to tell your Grace, from my Lord himself, that Lord Shelburne's removal will never have his consent. The King awaited an