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d the ruin of the Ministry, and were zealots for governing the colonies by the hand of power. Rigby to Bedford, in Bedford Cor., 4 June, 1766. In America half suppressed murmurs mingled with tf Representatives, 29 May, 1766, in Bradford's Massachusetts State Papers, 74. Concurrently, Rigby, as the leader of the Bedford June. party, Rigby to the Duke of Bedford, 4 June, 1766, in BeRigby to the Duke of Bedford, 4 June, 1766, in Bedford Correspondence, III. 336. on the third day of June, proposed in the British House of Commons an Address to the King, censuring America for its rebellious disposition, as well as the Ministry fosland, and was obtained from among the papers of the late George Chalmers, after their sale. Rigby was ably supported by Lord North and Thurlow; and especially by Wedderburn, who railed mercilessly at the Ministers, in a mixed strain of wit, oratory, and abuse; Rigby to Bedford, 4 June, 1766. so that, notwithstanding a spirited speech from Conway, and a negative to the motion without a di
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 26: (search)
only adequate expression of their self-reliance. His eager imagination bore him back to the public world, though to him it was become a riddle, which not even the wisest interpreter could solve. Pitt to Countess Stanhope, 20 June, 1766. In Mahon's History of England, v. Appendix, VII. 4 While he was in this tumult of emotions, a letter was brought from the King's own hand, reminding him that his last words in the House of Commons had been a declaration of freedom from party ties, Rigby to Bedford, 24 April, 1766. Bedford Correspondence, III. 333. and inviting him to form an independent Ministry. The King to Pitt, 7 July, 1766. Chatham Correspondence, II. 436. Northington to Pitt, 7 July, 1766. Chat. Cor. II. 435. The feeble invalid, whose infirmities inflamed his constitutional hopefulness, bounded at the summons of his sovereign, and flew, as he expressed it, on wings of expedition, to lay at the King's feet the poor but sincere offering of the remnant of his life,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 28: (search)
gh. But business would not wait. On the eighteenth of February, there appeared in the account of the Extraordinaries, a large and unusual expenditure on the continent of America. Grenville advised to lessen the expense, and charge Chap. Xxviii} 1767. Feb. upon the Colonies the whole of what should remain. There was a general agreement, that America ought to alleviate the burdens of England. Every speaker of the Opposition directly inveighed against Chatham, whom no one rose to defend. Rigby, stinging the self-love of the Ministers, reproached them with being but the servile instruments of their absent chief; incapable of acting but on orders from his lips. To prove his independence, Townshend explained his own system for America, and openly combated Chatham's of the year before. Compare Guerchy to Choiseul, 20 Feb. 1767. I would govern the Americans, said he, as subjects of Great Britain. I would restrain their trade and their manufactures as subordinate to the mother coun
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 30: (search)
gments of the old Whig aristocracy. He began with Bedford. Bedford and Grenville are one, said Rigby, by authority; and neither of them will ever depart from the ground taken, to assert and establi Grenville to Temple, 18 July, 1767, in Grenville Papers, IV. 59. Walpole's Memoirs. Temple to Rigby, 17 July, 1767. Bedford to Rockingham, 17 July, 1767, &c. &c. Grenville to Rigby, 16 July, 1767Rigby, 16 July, 1767; and Same to Same, 17 July, 1767, 9 o'clock. and he gave Rockingham leave to revive, if he could, the exclusive rule of the great Whig families. He knew that he was master of the field. The King mxplained the purpose of the meeting, Bedford, on behalf of Temple and Grenville, Grenville to Rigby, 16 July, 1767; Temple to Rigby, 16 July, 1767. Joint letter of Temple and Grenville, 17 July, Rigby, 16 July, 1767. Joint letter of Temple and Grenville, 17 July, 1767. declared their readiness to support a comprehensive administration, provided it adopted the capital measure of asserting and establishing the sovereignty of Great Britain over its Colonies. At
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 31: (search)
ymouth, a vehement but not forcible speaker; in private life, cold and taciturn; impoverished by gambling, and of such habits that the world Durand to the Duke of Choiseul, 19 Jan. 1768. Du Chatelet to the Duke of Choiseul, 20 Feb. 1768. said he passed all the day in sleep and all the night in drinking. Gower, who had a better reputation, became President of the Council; the Post Office was assigned to Sandwich, the ablest of them all as well as the most malignant against America; while Rigby was made Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, till he could get the Pay-Office. All five were friends of the Duke of Bedford, and united re- Chap. XXXI.} 1767. Dec. specting America in one opinion, which it was pretended Grafton also had accepted. Israel Mauduit to Hutchinson, 15 Dec. 1767. Nor be it left unnoticed, that Jenkinson, who took so large a part in framing the Stamp Act, held a place with Lord North at the Treasury Board. In him, boasted Mauduit to his client, Hutchinson, we have
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 38: (search)
gislature. The troops are to bring rioters to justice. Wedderburne, who at that moment belonged to himself and spoke in opposition to enhance his price, declaimed against governing by files of musketeers and terror; and he, too, condemned the Ministerial mandate as illegal. Arthur Lee's Report of the Debate, in Appendix to Life of R. H. Lee, 262. W. S. Johnson to W. Pitkin, 18 Nov. 1768; and W. S. Johnson's Diary, for 8 Nov. 1768, Cavendish Debates. Though it were considered wiser, said Rigby, to alter the American tax, than to continue it, I would not alter it, so long as the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay continues in its present state. Let the nation return to its old good nature and its old good humor, were the words of Alderman Beckford, W. S Johnson to Pitkin, 15 Nov. 1768. whom nobody minded, and who spoke more wisely than they all; it were best to repeal the late act, and conciliate the Colonies by moderation and kindness. Lord North, the recognised leader of the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 42: (search)
, are the senseless clamors of the thoughtless, and the ignorant, the lowest of the rabble. The Chap. XLII.} 1770. Jan. Westminster petition was obtained by a few despicable mechanics, headed by base-born people. The privileges of the people of this country, interposed Serjeant Glynn, do not depend upon birth and fortune; they hold their rights as Englishmen, and cannot be divested of them but by the subversion of the Constitution. Were it not for petition-hunters and incendiaries, said Rigby, the farmers of Yorkshire could not possibly take an interest in the Middlesex election of representatives in Parliament. But supposing that a majority of the freeholders had signed these petitions without influence and solicitation; the majority, even of this class, is no better than an ignorant multitude. Up rose the representative of the Yorkshire weavers and freeholders, the spotless Sir George Saville. The greatest evil, said he, that can befall this nation, is the invasion of the p