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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
he majority of the ministry was reduced to eightyseven. A fortnight later the motion of Sir James Lowther to give up all further attempts to reduce the revolted colonies was well received by the Chap. XXV.} 1781 Nov. members from the country, and the majority of the ministry after a very long and animated debate dwindled to forty-one. The city of London entreated the king to put an end to this unnatural and unfortunate war. Such, too, was the wish of public meetings in Westminster, in Southwark, and in the counties of Middlesex and Surrey. The house of commons employed the recess in grave reflection. The chimes of the Christmas bells had hardly died away when the king wrote as stubbornly as ever: No difficulties can get me to consent to the getting of peace at the expense of a separation from America. Yet Lord George Germain was compelled to retire ingloriously from the cabinet. It was sought to palliate his disgrace with a peerage; but as he crossed the threshold of the