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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
d of England, escaped absorption by Spain, seemed necessarily about to become an ally of the British king. Its harbors, during the last year of the ministry of Pombal, were shut against the vessels of the United States; and congress, on the thirtieth of 1776. Dec. 30. December, 1776, resenting the insult, was willing to incur its enmity, as the price of the active friendship of Spain. Secret Journals of Congress, II. 40-44. But when, two months later, on the 1777. Feb. 24. twenty-fourth of February, 1777, the weak-minded, superstitious Maria the First succeeded to the throne, Pombal retired before reactionary imbecility. Portugal, in exchange for a tract of land conterminous to Brazil, withdrew from the La Plata, and was scarcely heard of again during the war. In the south-east of Europe, the chief political 1778. interest for the United States centred in the joint rulers of the Austrian empire. The Danube, first of rivers of the old world, rolled through their dominions be
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
ady proved to him that the colonies were become a nation. He supported the rights of neutrals in their fullest extent; and, when England began to issue letters of marque, he stigmatized privateers as pirates of the sea. Frederic to Goltz, 24 Feb., 1777. But, as to a direct commerce, he could only answer as before: I am without a navy; having no armed ships to protect trade, the direct commerce could be conducted only under the flag of the Netherlands, and England respects that flag no longed the ministry sought to open the way for it through his envoy in London. Frederic, in his replies, made the most frank avowal of his policy: No man is further removed than myself from having connections with England. Frederic to Maltzan, 24 Feb., 1777. We will remain on the footing on which we now are with her. Ibid., 3 March, 1777. France knows perfectly well that it has absolutely nothing to apprehend from me in case of a war with England. My indifference for this latter power can su