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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
m charity, put to school,—and whom the duke, refusing him a colonelcy, had properly described as good for nothing. In the preparations, the public treasury was defrauded for the benefit of favorites. Improve to-day, instead of depending on to- Harley's Brief Account. morrow;—such was the secretary's admonition to his admiral. The queen is very uneasy at the unac- Bol. Cor. i. 154. countable loss of time in your stay at Portsmouth. Yet the fleet did sail at last; and when St. John heard of d to herself another quarter; and the remaining moiety was to be divided among her subjects. Thus did the sovereigns of England and Spain become the largest slave merchants in the world. Lady Masham promised herself a share of the profits; but Harley, who had good sense, and was Chap. XXI.} most free from avarice, advised the assignment of her majesty's portion of the stock to the South Sea company. Controlling the trade in slaves, who cost nothing but trinkets, and toys, and refuse arms,