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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
he head of the chief Protestant power on the continent, naturally leaned. Against France, whose dissolute king made himself the champion of superstition, he had fought for seven years; but, with the France which protected the United States, he had a common feeling. Liberal English statesmen commanded his good-will; but he detested the policy of Bute and of North: so that for him and the United Chap. III.} 1774. States there were in England the same friends and the same enemies. In November, 1774, he expressed the opinion that 1774. the British colonies would rather be buried under the ruins of their settlements than submit to the yoke of the mother country. Maltzan, his minister in London, yielded to surrounding influences, and in February, 1775, wishing to pave the way for an alliance 1775. between the two powers, wrote: The smallest attention would flatter the ministry beyond all expression. What motive have I, answered Frederic, to flatter Lord North? I see none: the lov