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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
hey had broken the arbitrary British rules of contraband and blockade. In the year 1758 the losses of its merchants on these pretences were estimated at more than twelve million guilders. In 1762 four of its Chap. I.} 1778. ships, convoyed by a frigate, were taken, after an engagement; and though the frigate was released, George Grenville, then secretary of state, announced by letter to its envoy that the right of stopping Dutch ships with naval stores must be and would be sustained. Stormont to Yorke, 11 January, 1780. These violences began to wean the Dutch people from their attachment to England. Could the prizes, which her courts wrongfully condemned, compensate for the affections of an ally of a hundred years? But this was not the worst: she took advantage of the imperfections in the constitution of the Netherlands to divide their government, and by influence and corruption she won the party of the stadholder to her own uses. The republic was in many ways dear to th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 20: (search)
be started to overset the whole. Yorke to Stormont, 16 June, 1780. Yet Stormont, who on thisStormont, who on this subject guided the cabinet of England, wrote to the British ambassador at the Hague: If the states-ion appeared to be the act of individuals, Stormont to Keith, 3 Nov., 1780. and the Earl of HillsHague with the treaty that Panin had drafted, Stormont saw there was no time to be lost. If the sta advise an immediate declaration. Yorke to Stormont, 31 Oct., 1780. On the third of November,fair. Yorke to Stormont, 7 Nov., 1780. Yet Stormont would brook no delay; and the British cabinetpossession in a state of defence. Yorke to Stormont, 3 Nov., 1780. The memorial to the statese league of the North. We do not wish, wrote Stormont, to give a deep wound to our old and natural mplices deserve to be de-Witted. Yorke to Stormont, 14 Nov., 1780. If a small mob, wrote Yorke f all the vulnerable parts of the republic. Stormont to Yorke, 14 Nov., 1780. At that time there s[19 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 26: (search)
of reducing the revolted colonies to obedience; and, after a long discussion, it was adopted without a division. With the same unanimity, leave was the next day granted to bring in a bill, enabling the king to make a peace or a truce with America. The bill for that purpose was accord- Chap. XXVI.} 1782. March 4. ingly brought in by the ministers; but more than two and a half months passed away before it became a law under their successors, in an amended form. Forth, who in the time of Stormont had been secretary of embassy at Paris, repaired to France as the agent of the expiring administration, to parley with Vergennes on conditions of peace, which did not essentially differ from those of Necker in a former year. To anticipate any half-way change of ministry, Fox, in the debate of the fourth, denounced Lord North and his colleagues as men void of honor and honesty, a coalition with any one of them as an infamy; but three days later he qualified his words in favor of Lord Thur