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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 22: (search)
e .by the despotic rules which ascertain the rights of property of evanescent mortals. Humanity smiled at the parchment chains which the lawyers threw around it, even though those chains were protected by a coalition of the army, the navy, the halls of justice, a corrupt parliament, and the crown. The new tory party created a new opposition. The non-electors of Great Britain were to become as little content with virtual representation as the colonists. Even while Mansfield was speaking, chap. XXII.} 1766. Feb. the press of London gave to the world a very sensible production, showing the equity and practicability of a more equal representation throughout the whole British dominions; Monthly Review for Feb. 1766, XXXIV. 155. and also a scheme An Account of a Conference on the Occurrences in America, in a letter to a friend, 1766, 38-40. for a general parliament, to which every part of the British dominions should send one member for every twenty thousand of its inhabitants.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 23: (search)
Chapter 23: The repeal of the Stamp Act—Rockingham's Adminis-Tration continued. February, 1766. on Tuesday, the fourth of February, the party of chap. XXIII.} 1766. Feb. Bedford and the old ministry of Grenville coalesced with the friends of prerogative to exercise over the colonies the power, which it had just been resolved that parliament rightfully possessed. The ministry desired to recommend to them to compensate the sufferers by the American riots. The opposition, by a vote of sixty-three to sixty, changed the recommendation into a parliamentary requisition. Chatham Corr. II. 376. Grafton's Autobiography. De Guerchy to the Duke de Praslin, 4 Feb. and 7 Feb., 1766. The new tory party already had a majority of votes in the House of Lords. The next morning, Rockingham and Grafton; much irritated at this usage, went to court and proposed the removal from office of one or two of those who had appeared to be the most hostile; but the king, recently so eager to d