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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
. XVII.} 1761. March departments the care of the marine. It is certain, said Grimaldi, the Spanish ambassador at Paris, they ardently wish for a negotiation for peaFrance will not be bound by the will of her allies. Flassan: VI. 377, 381. Grimaldi to Fuentes in Chatham Correspondence, II. 92.Spain saw with alarm the dispositccasioned the intrusive settlements. Unwilling to be left to negotiate alone, Grimaldi, urging the utmost secrecy, began working to see if he could make some protectting victory by a reasonable peace. There may be quarrelling yet, predicted Grimaldi. To further the negotiations, Bussy repaired May. to London, furnished with d to gain time, till the fleet should arrive at Cadiz. Compare the letters of Grimaldi to Fuentes, of August 31, and September 13, in Chatham Correspondence, II. 139ut was informed that the document had been misplaced or lost. The allusion of Grimaldi, in his letter of September 13, to the stipulations of the treaty between the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
condition that the details should be kept religiously from Spain, and from the Duke of Bedford. Thus the ministry of the hostile power, with which Bedford was to negotiate a peace, was, without his knowledge, made acquainted with his most secret instructions. Nothing better explains the character of Bute, and its discovery drew on him the implacable displeasure and contempt of Bedford. The consummation of the peace languished and was delayed; its failure even was anticipated, because Grimaldi, for Spain, was persuaded that the expedi- chap. XIX.} 1762. tion of the English against Havana must be defeated. But before the end of the twenty-ninth day of September news arrived of a very different result. Havana was then, as now, the chief place in the West Indies, built on a harbor large enough to shelter all the navies of Europe, capable of being made impregnable from the sea, having docks in which ships of war of the first magnitude were constructed, rich from the products of