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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
rade was the Earl of CHAP. VI.} 1763. May. Shelburne. He was at that time not quite six and twengn of King George III. i. 257, 258, says of Shelburne: The probability was, that he (Shelburne) inShelburne) intended to slip into the pay-office himself. Again; he insinuates that Shelburne, in negotiating wiShelburne, in negotiating with Fox to support the peace, practised the pious fraud of concealing Lord Bute's intention of retirrd Holland. As to the first surmise, that Shelburne desired to slip into the pay-office himself,lle's Diary, in Papers II. 207, 208. As for Shelburne, he was marked out for the higher office of nd, as well as the Bedfords, refused to find Shelburne blamable. Walpole's Geo. III. i. 262, 263.brings these unsubstantiated charges against Shelburne, he is entirely at fault in narrating confid Papers show that it was not. The name of Shelburne will occur so often in American history duri both whig and tory were very bitter against Shelburne; some of the Rockingham whigs most of all, p
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
pense which must attend the civil and military establishments adopted on the present occasion, Shelburne gave warning that it was a point of the highest im- chap. VIII.} 1763. July. portance, Loasures, though he approved them and wished them to be adopted. This refusal on the part of Shelburne neither diminished the stubborn eagerness of Egremont nor delayed the action of the treasury dor the American tax was ordered to be prepared, Egremont was no longer Secretary of State, nor Shelburne at the head of the Board of Trade. The triumvirate ministry, the three Horatii, the minist II. 88. It is not strange that the discerning king wished to be rid of Egremont. To that end Shelburne, who was opposed to Egremont's schemes of colonial government, was commissioned to propose a cChesterfield to his Son, September, 1763. Letter CCCLXXII. and the Earl of Hillsborough, like Shelburne an Irish as well as an English Peer, was placed at the head of the Board of Trade. One and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
land, and South Carolina; delegates named by a written requisition from the individual representatives of Delaware and New Jersey, and the legislative Committee of Correspondence of New-York, met at New-York, in Congress. New Hampshire, though not present by deputy, yet agreed to abide by the result; and they were gladdened during their session by the arrival of the express messenger from Georgia sent near a thousand miles by land to obtain a copy of their proceedings. James Otis to Henry Shelburne, Ms. The members of this first Union of the American people were elected by the representatives of the people of each separate colony. While they formed one body, their power was derived from independent sources. Each of the colonies existed in its individuality; and notwithstanding great differences in their respective population and extent of territory, as they met in Congress they recognised each other as equals, without the least claim of pre-eminence one over the chap. XVII