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lone for enemies. Carleton did not succeed any better with the Congress, than his brother negotiators had succeeded with the States General. On the contrary, the Congress declared, by resolution, that they would not enter into any negotiation to which France was not a party. England then applied to France and Spain; but France was, at the time, in expectation of making great conquests in the West Indies, and Spain could not resign her hope of regaining Gibraltar. The defeat, however, of Count De Grasse by Admiral Rodney, and the repulse of the great attack upon Gibraltar by General Elliott, caused all parties to lower their tone. All had suffered severely; Great Britain by losses in the West Indies, and the destruction of a whole army at Yorktown, France by Rodney's victory and disasters in the East Indies, and Spain by the destruction of the enormous armament she had prepared against Gibraltar.--All were exhausted by the prodigious efforts they had made, and all were anxious for