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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 47: (search)
he had weakened the respect of the Colonies for a royal Govern ment, was weary of him; his colleagues disliked him, and conspired to drive him into retirement. Franklin to his Son, 17 August, 1772. The occasion was at hand. Franklin had negotiated with the Treasury for a grant to a Company of about twenty-three millions of acres of land, south of the Ohio and west of the Alleghanies; Hillsborough, from the fear that men in the backwoods would be too independent, opposed the project. De Guines, French Ambassador, to Aiguillon, 11 August, 1772. Franklin persuaded Hertford, a friend of the King's, Gower the President of the Council, Camden, the Secretaries of the Treasury, W. Duer to Robert R. Livingston Jr., London, 3 August, 1772. and others to become shareholders in his scheme; by their influence, the Lords of Council disregarded the adverse report of the Board of Trade, and decided in favor of planting the new Province. Order in Council, 14 Aug. 1772. Compare Propositio
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 49: (search)
tham to T. Hollis, 18 April, 1773. It was the King who precipitated the conflict. He had no dread of the interposition of France, for that power, under the Ministry of the day, feared lest the enfranchisement of the Anglo-American Colonies should create a dangerous rival power to itself, Memoire sur L'Angleterre, in Angleterre, Tome 502. and was eager to fortify the good understanding with England by a defensive treaty, or at least by a treaty of commerce. Dispatches of Aiguillon to de Guines in March and April 1773. Louis the Fifteenth was resolved at all events to avoid war. King to Lord North, 20 April, 1773; and King to Lord North, 25 April, 1773. From the time therefore that the Representatives of Massachusetts avowed their legislative Independence, the King dismissed the thought of obtaining obedience by argument and persuasion. Dartmouth to Hutchinson, 10 April, 1773. The most thorough search was made into every Colonial law that checked or even seemed to check
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 52: (search)
Fox est le seul qui en montre de distingues. Il a beaucoup d'esprit, de force d'eloquence, et malgre le derangement, sans exemple de sa conduite et de ses affaires, la nation est naturellement dispose à la confiance sur tout ce qu'il veut lui persuader. Si ses premiers pas dans les affaires sont marques par les succes, il pourra produire un jour dans son pays des effets pareils à ceux qui yont a jamais illustre la carriere politique de Milord Chatham. Written in 1773 by the French Ambassador De Guines. Memoire sur l'angleterre; In the French Archives, Angleterre, Tom. 502. The cause of liberty obtained in him a friend who was independent of party allegiance and traditions, just at the time when the passion for ruling America by the central authority was producing anarchy in the Colonies. In South Carolina, whose sons esteemed themselves disfranchised on their own soil by the appointment of strangers to every office, the Governor had for four years negatived every taxbill in t