Browsing named entities in George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition.. You can also browse the collection for Clare or search for Clare in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
public life, for which he owned himself unfit. There seemed for him no way to St. Stephen's chapel, except through a rotten borough belonging to Rockingham; and what influence would the first man in England for speculative intelligence exert in the house of commons, if he should appear there as the paid agent of an American colony and the nominee of an English patron? Such seemed his best hope, when, on the eleventh of October, he was invited to become a candidate at Bristol against Viscount Clare, the statesman who in the debates on repealing the stamp act, had stickled for the peppercorn from America. He hastened to the contest with alacrity, avowing for his principle British superiority, which was yet to be reconciled with American liberty; and after a struggle of three weeks, he, with Cruger of New York as his colleague, was elected one of the representatives of the great trading city of western England. Bristol was almost the only place which changed its representation to t