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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
nd glory to be acquired for his own name, in every zone and throughout the globe. With one hand he prepared to smite the whole family of Bourbons, and wield in the other the democracy of England. Grattan's Character of Pitt. His eye penetrated futurity; the vastest schemes flashed before his mind,—to change the destinies of continents, and mould the fortunes of the world. He resolved to seize the remaining French islands, especially Martinico; and to con- chap. XVII.} 1761. Sept. quer Havana. You must take Panama, Chatham Anecdotes, i. 366. Choiseul in his later Correspondence says he was aware of Pitt's Plans. he exclaimed, to a general officer. The Philippine islands were next to fall; and the Spanish monopoly in the New World to be broken at one blow and for ever by a general resignation of all Spanish America, in all matters which might be deemed beneficial to Great Britain. But humanity had reserved to itself a different mode of extricating Spanish America from col
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
Chapter 20: England, grasping at the colonies of France and Spain, risks the loss of her own.—Bute's ministry. 1762-1763. while it was yet uncertain who among British chap. XX.} 1762. statesmen would be selected to establish British authority in the colonies, the king, on the twentysixth of October, offering to return Havana to Spain for either the Floridas or Porto Rico, urged the instant consummation of the treaty. The best dispatch I can receive from you will be these preliminaries signed. May Providence, in compassion to human misery, give you the means of executing this great and noble work. Thus beautifully wrote the young monarch to Bedford, not dazzled by victory, and repressing the thirst for conquest; a rare instance of moderation, of which history must gratefully preserve the record. The terms proposed to the French were severe, and even humiliating. But what can we do? said Choiseul, who in his despair had for a time resigned the foreign department to th