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January (search for this): chapter 17
force which involved the whole human race, and could not be checked by all the weight of ancient authority. The king was eager to renounce the connection 1761. Jan. with Prussia, and to leave that kingdom to meet its own ruin, while he negotiated separately with France; but Pitt prevailed with the cabinet to renew the annual treaty with Frederic, and with parliament to vote the subsidy without a question. He has no thought of abandoning the continent, said Bute, in January; he is madder than ever. But Newcastle, clinging fondly to office, and aware of the purposes of the king, shrunk from sustaining the secretary, and professed himself most sincerely of the daily means used to let him have as little in the coming parliament, and talked of resignation; then, conspiring against Pitt and sub- chap. XVII.} 1761. Jan. mitting to every thing; he remained at his post. In the approaching election, he was thwarted in his desire to use for his own purposes his old system of corrupti
February (search for this): chapter 17
g's interest, to vote as they pleased, a private one was annexed, naming the person for whom they were all to vote; and Newcastle was limited to those where the crown had only an influence. The new parliament, said Bute, confidently, will be the Feb. king's. George the Third began his reign by competing with the aristocracy at the elections for the majority in that body; and in the choice of the twelfth parliament, his first effort was successful. Changes in the cabinet were preparing. Freen ready to quarrel with his fellow-ministers, and throw up in seeming anger, so that Bute might then come in without appearing to displace any one. But this was too foolish a scheme to be approved of. It is very easy, thought the Favorite, in February, to make the Duke of Newcastle resign, but who is to take it? He had not courage to aim at once at the highest station. On the nineteenth of March, 1761, as the session March closed, the eleventh parliament of Great Britain was dissolved.
March 25th (search for this): chapter 17
time ascendency, England, violating treaties and its own recognition of its obligations, required that Spain should first come into stipulations for the continuance of the trade which had occasioned the intrusive settlements. Unwilling to be left to negotiate alone, Grimaldi, urging the utmost secrecy, began working to see if he could make some protecting alliance with France. You have waited, he was answered, till we are destroyed, and you are consequently of no use. And on the twenty-fifth day of March, within five days of Bute's accession to the cabinet, on occasion of proposing a general congress at Augsburg, for the pacification of the Continent, Choiseul offered to negotiate separately with England. Pitt assented. Little April. did the two great statesmen foresee that their attempts at a treaty of peace would only generate permanent passions and alliances, which would leave England without a friend in its coming contest with chap. XVII.} 1761. April. America. Choiseu
May (search for this): chapter 17
he people of England were gazing at the pageant of the coronation, or relating to each other how the king, kneeling before the altar in Westminster Abbey, with piety formal but sincere, reverently put off his crown, as he received the sacrament from the archbishop. A second meeting of the cabinet was attended by all the ministers; they heard Pitt explain correctly the private convention by which Spain had bound itself to declare chap. XVII.} 1761. war against Great Britain in the following May, but they came to no decision. At a third meeting all the great Whig lords objected, having combined with the favorite to drive the great representative of the people from power. Newcastle and Hardwicke, Devonshire and Bedford, even Ligonier and Anson, as well as Bute and Mansfield, assisted in his defeat. Pitt, with his brother-in-law Temple, stood alone. Stung by the opposition of the united oligarchy, Pitt remembered how he made his way into the cabinet, and what objects he had steadil
June (search for this): chapter 17
of the fisheries. Without these, he would himself decline chap. XVII.} 1761. June. further negotiation. In those days, maritime power was thought to depend on the encouragement of the fisheries; and to renounce them seemed like renouncing the power of manning a navy. Pitt refused the fisheries altogether. The union of France with Spain was the necessary consequence, and was promoted by the reduction of Belle-Isle. You have effectually roused France in every part of it, wrote Keppel, in June, just after that success; they feel themselves so hurt and dishonored, that they will risk their ships and every thing to wipe it off. Keppel to Pitt, 18 June, 1761. Towards such efforts Pitt looked in the proud serenity of conscious strength; and yet it was observed that he was becoming sombre and anxious; Flassan, VI. 406. for his own king had prepared for him opposition in the cabinet. The peace which is offered, said Granville, the July. Lord President, is more advantageous to E
July (search for this): chapter 17
406. for his own king had prepared for him opposition in the cabinet. The peace which is offered, said Granville, the July. Lord President, is more advantageous to England than any ever concluded with France, since King Henry the Fifth's time. I pray to God, said Bedford to Bute, in July, his majesty may avail himself of this opportunity of excelling in glory and magnanimity the most famous of his predecessors, by giving his people a reasonable and lasting peace. Did any argue that effortbtaining a better peace than we can command at present, or induce the French to relinquish a right of chap. XVII.} 1761. July. fishery? Indeed, he pursued, with good judgment and good feeling, the endeavoring to drive France entirely out of s said, to fear a fresh war in Europe and America. This note and this memorial, containing the men- chap. XVII.} 1761. July. ace of a Spanish war, gave Pitt the ascendency. To the private intercession of the king he yielded but a little, and in
July 15th (search for this): chapter 17
peace. All the rest who were present cowered before Pitt, in dread lest he should frown. Bedford was the single man who dared to deliver an opinion contrary to his, though agreeable to every other person's sentiments. Rigby in Wiffen, II. 472. See also Bedford Corr. I, said Newcastle, envy him that spirit more than his great fortune and abilities. But the union between France and Spain was already so far consummated, that, in connection with the French memorial, Bussy had on the fifteenth of July presented a note, requiring England to afford no succour to the king of Prussia, and a private paper, demanding, on behalf of Spain, indemnity for seizures, the right to fish at Newfoundland, and the demolition of the English settlements in the Bay of Honduras. These differences, if not adjusted, gave room, it was said, to fear a fresh war in Europe and America. This note and this memorial, containing the men- chap. XVII.} 1761. July. ace of a Spanish war, gave Pitt the ascendency.
July 20th (search for this): chapter 17
st nature, and can tend to no one good to this country; but, on the contrary, must excite all the naval powers in Europe to enter into a confederacy against us, as adopting a system of a monopoly of all naval power, dangerous to the liberties of Europe. . . . . .In case it shall be decided to carry on the war for another campaign, I, he added, wash my hands from all the guilt of the blood that may be shed. At the king's special request, Bedford attended the cabinet council of the twentieth of July, to discuss the conditions of peace. All the rest who were present cowered before Pitt, in dread lest he should frown. Bedford was the single man who dared to deliver an opinion contrary to his, though agreeable to every other person's sentiments. Rigby in Wiffen, II. 472. See also Bedford Corr. I, said Newcastle, envy him that spirit more than his great fortune and abilities. But the union between France and Spain was already so far consummated, that, in connection with the Fre
July 29th (search for this): chapter 17
e presented his reply to France, not for deliberation, but acceptance. Bute dared not express dissent, and as Bedford disavowed all responsibility and retired with indignant surprise, Pitt, with the unanimous consent of the cabinet, returned the memorials relative to Prussia and to Spanish affairs as wholly inadmissible; declaring that the king would not suffer the disputes with Spain to be blended in any manner whatever in the negotiations of peace between the two nations. On the twenty-ninth of July, Stanley, bearing the ultimatum of England, demanded Canada; the fisheries, with a limited and valueless concession to the French, and that only on the humiliating condition of reducing Dunkirk; half the neutral islands, especially St. Lucia and Tobago; Senegal and Goree, that is, a monopoly of the slave-trade; Minorca; freedom to assist the king of-Prussia; and British ascendency in the East Indies. The ministers of Spain and Austria could not conceal their exultation. Aug. My hono
August (search for this): chapter 17
ussia; and British ascendency in the East Indies. The ministers of Spain and Austria could not conceal their exultation. Aug. My honor, replied Choiseul to the English envoy, will be the same fifty years hence as now; I am as indifferent to my deed. Thackeray's Life of Chatham, II. 580. And claiming the right to interfere in Spanish affairs, chap. XVII.} 1761. Aug. with the approbation of Spain, he submitted modifications of the British offer. He still desired peace; Bussy to Pitt,a counterpoise to the maritime ascendency of England. From the period of the termination of existing chap. XVII.} 1761. Aug. hostilities, France and Spain, in the whole extent of their dominions, were to stand towards foreign powers as one state. rst was war itself. by which Spain herself engaged to declare war against England, unless contrary to chap. XVII.} 1761. Aug. all expectation, peace should be concluded between France and England before the first day of May, 1762. Extending his ey
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