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Michell (search for this): chapter 10
ussia had insisted, that, by the law of nations, the goods of an enemy cannot be taken from on board the ships of a friend; that free ships make free goods. Against this interpretation of public law, the learning of Murray had been called into service; and, pleading ancient usage against the lessons of wiser times, he gave the elaborate opinion which formed the basis of English policy and Admiralty law, Representation to the King (drawn by Murray), 18 January, 1753. Duke of Newcastle to Michell, Secretary to the Prussian Embassy at London, 8 February, 1753. that the effects of an enemy can be seized on board the vessel of a friend. This may be proved, said Murray, by authority; and the illustrious jurist did not know that humanity appeals from the despotic and cruel precedents of the past chap. X.} 1756. to the more intelligent and more humane spirit of advancing civilization. Neutral nations believed in their right to carry in their vessels, unmolested, the property of bellig
Americans (search for this): chapter 10
oyal American regiment of four thousand. At the same time came Abercrombie. Letters awaited him in praise of Washington. He is a very deserving gentleman, wrote Dinwiddie, and has from the beginning commanded the forces of this Dominion. He is much beloved, has gone through many hardships in the service, has great merit, and can raise more men here than any one. He therefore urged chap. X.} 1756. his promotion in the British establishment. But England trusted foreigners rather than Americans. I find, said Abercrombie, you will never be able to carry on any thing to any purpose in America, till you have a viceroy or superintendent over all the provinces. Letter of Alexander Colden. New York, 19 June, 1756. And Loudoun's arrival was to produce a great change of affairs. On the twenty-fifth of June, Abercrombie arrived at Albany, firmly resolved that the regular officers should command the provincials, and that the troops should be quartered on private houses. On the nex
Richard Lyttleton (search for this): chapter 10
ed in possessing a train of artillery, consisting of twelve great guns which had been brought to the English camp, Gov. Lyttleton of South Carolins to the Lords of Trade, 31 Dec. 1756. from such a distance as the seaport, and over such prodigious mountains. The Cherokees were much divided in sentiment. Use all means you think proper, wrote Lyttleton, to induce our Indians to take up the hatchet. Promise a reward to every man who shall bring in the scalp of a Frenchman or of one of the French Indians. Demere to Gov. Lyttleton, Dec. 1756. Lyttleton to Lords of Trade, 25 December, 1756. In December, the Six Nations sent a hundred and eighty delegates to meet the Nepissings, the Algonquins, the Potawatamies, and the Ottawas, at aLyttleton to Lords of Trade, 25 December, 1756. In December, the Six Nations sent a hundred and eighty delegates to meet the Nepissings, the Algonquins, the Potawatamies, and the Ottawas, at a congress at Montreal. All promised at least neutrality; the young braves wished even to join the French; and they trod the English medals under foot. The imbecility which marked the conduct of British affairs in America, showed itself still mor
Charles Jenkinson (search for this): chapter 10
strength, arbitrarily prohibited the commerce of the Netherlands in naval stores; denied them the right to become the carriers of French colonial products, and declared all the harbors of all France to be in a state of blockade, and all vessels bound to them lawful prizes. Van Kampen's Geschichte der Niederlande, II., 443. Flassan: Histoire de la Diplomatie Francaise, VI., 64, 65. Heeren's Historische Werke, IX., 47. Such was the rule of 1756. To charge England with ambition, said Charles Jenkinson, A Discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great Britain in respect to Neutral Nations, during the present War. an Oxford scholar, who had given up the thought of entering the church, and hoped for success in public life; to charge England with ambition must appear so absurd to all who understand the nature of her government, that at the bar of reason it ought to be treated rather as calumny than accusation. The chap. X.} 1756. grave confidence of his discourse was by his o
George Grenville (search for this): chapter 10
le influence of Leicester House; he found the Earl of Bute transcendingly obliging; and from the young heir to the throne, expressions were repeated, so decisive of determined purposes of favor, in the present or chap. X.} 1756. any future day, that his own lively imagination could not have suggested a wish beyond them. Chatham Corr. i. 191, 192. For the chief of the Treasury Board, he selected the Duke of Devonshire, with Legge as chancellor. Temple presided over the Admiralty. George Grenville was made treasurer of the navy. To Charles Townshend, who could ill brook a superior, and who hated Pitt, was offered a useless place, neither ministerial nor active; and his resentment at the disdainful slight was not suppressed, till his elder brother and Bute interceded, and at last the name of the Prince of Wales was used. Thus began the political connections of Charles Townshend with George the Third, and they were never broken. Restless in his pursuit of early advancement, he r
Kampen (search for this): chapter 10
were blockaded or besieged; that the contraband of war should be strictly limited to arms, artillery, and horses, and should not include materials for ship-building. But Great Britain, in the exercise of its superior strength, arbitrarily prohibited the commerce of the Netherlands in naval stores; denied them the right to become the carriers of French colonial products, and declared all the harbors of all France to be in a state of blockade, and all vessels bound to them lawful prizes. Van Kampen's Geschichte der Niederlande, II., 443. Flassan: Histoire de la Diplomatie Francaise, VI., 64, 65. Heeren's Historische Werke, IX., 47. Such was the rule of 1756. To charge England with ambition, said Charles Jenkinson, A Discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great Britain in respect to Neutral Nations, during the present War. an Oxford scholar, who had given up the thought of entering the church, and hoped for success in public life; to charge England with ambition must appea
Heeren (search for this): chapter 10
es, and should not include materials for ship-building. But Great Britain, in the exercise of its superior strength, arbitrarily prohibited the commerce of the Netherlands in naval stores; denied them the right to become the carriers of French colonial products, and declared all the harbors of all France to be in a state of blockade, and all vessels bound to them lawful prizes. Van Kampen's Geschichte der Niederlande, II., 443. Flassan: Histoire de la Diplomatie Francaise, VI., 64, 65. Heeren's Historische Werke, IX., 47. Such was the rule of 1756. To charge England with ambition, said Charles Jenkinson, A Discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great Britain in respect to Neutral Nations, during the present War. an Oxford scholar, who had given up the thought of entering the church, and hoped for success in public life; to charge England with ambition must appear so absurd to all who understand the nature of her government, that at the bar of reason it ought to be trea
John Armstrong (search for this): chapter 10
uquesne, stained all the border of Pennsylvania with murder and scalping. To destroy them, three hundred Pennsylvanians crossed the Alleghanies, conducted by John Armstrong, of Cumberland County, famed as inheriting the courage of the Scottish covenanters. In the night following the seventh of September, the avenging party, haacobs and others attempting flight, were shot and scalped; the town was burned to ashes, never to be rebuilt by savages. But the Americans lost sixteen men; and Armstrong himself was among the wounded. Hugh Mercer, captain of the company which suffered most, was hit by a musket-ball in the arm, and with five others separated from the main body; but, guided by the stars and rivulets, they soon found their way back. The conduct of Armstrong in leading his party through the mountainous wilderness, and reaching the town without being discovered, was universally applauded. Philadelphia voted honors to him and his gallant band; Pennsylvania has given his name
Columella (search for this): chapter 10
pole's Memoires of George II., II. 39. The Earl of Bute had been one of the lords of the bed-chamber to Frederic, the late Prince of Wales, who used to call him a fine, showy man, such as would make an excellent ambassador in a court where there was no business. He was ambitious, yet his personal timidity loved to lean on a nature firmer than his own. Though his learning was small, he was willing to be thought a man of erudition, who could quote Horace, and find pleasure in Virgil and Columella. He had an air of the greatest importance, and in look and manner assumed an extraordinary appearance of wisdom. Chatham Correspond., i. 157. Waldegrave's Memoirs, 38. Unacquainted with business and unemployed in public office, yet as a consistent and most obsequious royalist, he retained the confidence of the princess dowager, and was the instructor chap. X.} 1756. of the future sovereign of England in the theory of the British constitution. Adolphus: Hist. of England, i. 12. O
Robert Walpole (search for this): chapter 10
e, with the concurrence of the king, would have separated his establishment from that of his mother. They both were opposed to the separation. Pitt exerted his influence against it, with a zeal and activity to which they were most sensible. Walpole's Memoires of George II., II. 39. The Earl of Bute had been one of the lords of the bed-chamber to Frederic, the late Prince of Wales, who used to call him a fine, showy man, such as would make an excellent ambassador in a court where there xpressed his desires, nay, his fixed resolutions, to have the free choice of his servants. Chatham Corr. i. 171. This family, said Granville of the Hanoverian dynasty, always has quarrelled, and will quarrel from generation to generation. Walpole's Memoires, II. 63, 85, 86. Having wantoned with the resentment of the successor and his mother, Newcastle became terrified and yielded. The king gave his consent reluctantly. You, said he angrily to Fox, you have made me make that puppy Bute,
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