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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 47: (search)
e so rapidly, but at this time he cultivated the greatest intimacy with Panin, whose opinion he professed to follow. The indifference of the king of Prussia on the relation of England to her colonies, extended to the court of Moscow, and the Russian ministers never Chap. XLVII.} 1775. Aug. spoke of the strife but as likely to end in American independence. Yet this coolness was not perceived by the British minister. One day Panin inquired of him the news; remembering his instructions, Gunning seized the moment to answer, that the measures in progress would shortly end the rebellion in America; then, as if hurried by excess of zeal to utter an idle, unauthorized speculation of his own, he asked leave to acquaint his king, that in case the circumstances of affairs should render any foreign forces necessary, he might reckon upon a body of her imperial majesty's infantry. On the morning of the eighth of August, Panin reported the answer of the empress. Nothing was said specificall
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 50: (search)
ngland had in contemplation a larger scheme. Gunning's private and confidential despatch from Moscme on this occasion. Armed with this letter, Gunning was ordered to ask an audience of the empressighth, Suffolk despatched a second courier to Gunning, with a project of a treaty for taking a body will not conceal from you, wrote Suffolk to Gunning, Chap. L.} 1775. Sept. that this accession oeft England, when, on the tenth of September, Gunning at court poured out to the empress assurancesce. The empress having returned to Moscow, Gunning, at five in the afternoon of the thirtieth, w had been made, and after much expostulation, Gunning confessed: It is true; in your answer to me nter of George the Third. The next morning, Gunning went to Panin before Oct. he was up, and to ourier, with the project of a treaty, reached Gunning on the fourth of October; he seized the earliress continued to be profuse of courtesies to Gunning; and when in December he took his leave, she [3 more...]