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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
763. April. a system of frugality. America, with its new acquisitions-Florida, and the valley of the Mississippi, and Canada-lay invitingly before him. The enforcing the navigation acts was peculiarly his own policy, and was the first leading feature of his administration. His predecessors had bound him by their pledges to provide for the American army by taxes on the colonies; and to find sources of an American revenue, was his second great object. This he combined with the purpose M. Frances au Due de Choiseul à Londres le 2 Septembre, 1768. of so dividing the public burdens between England and America as to diminish the motive to emigrate from Great Britain and Ireland; Second protest of the House of Lords, on the repeal of the stamp act. for, in those days, emigration Knox, i. 23, Extra-official Papers, II. 23. was considered an evil. In less than a month after Bute's retirement, Egremont, who still remained Secretary of State for the southern department, asked the ad
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
th of Cape Rosieres, designating the line chap VIII.} 1763 June. with precision on a map, which is still preserved. With regard to the limits of these governments, as described in the report, and marked out in the chart thereunto annexed, &c. of Egremont to the Board of Trade, 11 July, 1763 (E. and A., 278). At the south, the boundary of Georgia was extended to its present line. Of Canada, General Murray advised General Murray's opinion, given by himself to Frances, as contained in M. Frances au Due de Choiseul, à Londres le 2 Septembre, 1768. to make a military colony, and to include the west within its jurisdiction, in order to overawe — the older colonies, and keep them in fear and submission. Against this project Shelburne desired to restrict Lords of Trade to the Secretary of State, 8 June, 1763. the government of Canada within narrower limits, and to bound it on the west by a line drawn from the intersection of the parallel of forty-five degrees north with the St. Law
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
made a plan for establishing it in the isle of St. John. This reverie of a visionary he desired to apply to all the conquered countries, to Acadia and Canada on the north; and to the two Floridas on the south, which were to be divided into great baronies, each composed of a hundred vassals. In each province there were to be castles, fortified, casemated, chap. IX.} 1763. Oct. and armed with cannon, placed near enough to preserve a connection. The contemptuous neglect of his project M. Frances an Duc de Choiseul, à Londres le 21 8bre. 1768. II meprise les talens de M. Grenville et bait sa personne inclined him to think lightly of Grenville's ability, and to hate him, Frances to the Duke de Choiseul, Oct. 1768. 11 (Egmont) n'a pas pardonne a my Lord Hillsborough, qui etoit alors a la tete du bureau des plantations, de s'etre oppose à son execution. nor did he forgive Hillsborough for his opposition. In forming the new territory into provinces, the fear of danger from large