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Fort Bedford (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
placed. Grenville, in apparently confident security, continued his schemes of colonial revenue, and by the fourteenth of June, represented to the king, that the Canadians were subject to taxation by virtue of his prerogative. But the duke of Bedford had already filled the palace with more rankling cares. The plain-spoken man, exasperated by the sense of his own unpopularity and by the coldness of the court, was growing weary of public life and wished to retire. On the twelfth of June, bei the work of forming an administration. On receiving the news by an express from Pitt, Temple broke confidence so far as privately to communicate its substance to Grenville, who, before returning to London, hastened to Woburn, and received from Bedford full powers to dispose of him entirely as he should think fit. Meantime, Temple, with a predetermined mind, repaired on Monday to Pitt at Hayes. The two statesmen were at variance on no important measure except the policy of the stamp act, whic
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
y on a Prussian alliance, an explanation of general warrants, and a repeal of the cider tax; but Pitt declared himself against the measures that had chap XV.} 1765 June. been adopted to restrain theind foreboded the fatal consequences. The discussion was renewed on the following Saturday, when Pitt, having obtained satisfaction as to measures and as to men, entered most thoroughly and most hearnville and Bedford, or for reasons that have remained unrevealed, Temple refused to take office. Pitt was alike surprised, wounded, and embarrassed. Lord Temple was his brother-in-law; had, in the t1765. June. The long discussion that ensued deeply affected both; but Temple inflexibly resisted Pitt's judgment, declaration, and most earnest remonstrance; he would not consent to supplant the brot any former period of history. Deserted in this wise by the connection in whom he had trusted, Pitt immediately sought an interview with the king, who accepted his excuses, and parted from him very
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 15
done, and especially of the neglect of the colonies and new conquests; and the indefatigable Grenville applied himself earnestly to American measures. Bishops were to be engrafted on a plan which he favored for an ecclesiastical establishment in Canada. On the fourth of July, he proposed a reform in the courts of admiralty; in the following days, he, with Lord North, settled the emoluments of the officers charged with carrying into execution the American stamp act; made an enumeration of the ss as impossible to have been intended—permitted appeals to the privy council from any verdict given by any jury in the courts of New-York; while the Treasury Board, with Rockingham at its head, directed the attorney and solicitor general to prepare instruments for collecting in Canada, by the king's authority, the same revenue which had been collected there under the government of Louis XV.; and without any apparent misgiving, proceeded to complete the arrangements for executing the stamp act.
Halifax (Canada) (search for this): chapter 15
l branch; and such was his own ambition of being first in place, such his sincerity, such his fidelity to his political connections, that from this time till the day of his death he remained their acknowledged standard-bearer. His deficiencies in knowledge and in rhetoric, the minister compensated by selecting as his secretary and intimate friend Edmund Burke, who had recently es- chap. XV.} 1765. July. caped from the service of one of the opposite party, and from a pension bestowed by Halifax. It was characteristic of that period for a man like Rockingham to hold for life a retainer like Edmund Burke; and never did a true-hearted, kindly and generous patron find a more faithful adherent. He brought to his employer, and gave up to his party, all that he had—boundless stores of knowledge, especially respecting the colonies, wit, philosophy, imagination, gorgeous eloquence, unwearied industry, mastery of the English tongue, and, as some think, the most accomplished intellect whic
Stowe, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
er, honest and upright, naturally inclining to the liberal side. He had little chap. XV.} 1765. July. sagacity, but he meant well; and, in after years, preferred himself to record and to explain his errors of judgment rather than to leave in doubt the sincerity of his character. This is he to whom the poet Gray, in verses splendid but not venal, flung praise as to one who kept the steady course of honor through the wild waves of public life. In his college vacations, he had seen Pitt at Stowe, and been fascinated by his powers; he took office, in the hope that the ministry might adopt the Great Commoner as its chief. Conway, who had been arbitrarily dismissed from military office, was suggested, as Grafton's associate. But thinking men foresaw peril to the stamp act, in intrusting its execution to one of the very few persons who had opposed the passing of it; and the king wished to consign that office to Charles Townshend, by whom it had so long been coveted. Who can tell ho
Grafton, W. Va. (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ldering passions, wrought much evil to his country and to Europe, even while he rendered noble service to the cause of commercial freedom, to Ireland, and to America. The seals of the Northern department of state were conferred on the duke of Grafton, a young man of respectable abilities, yet impaired by fondness for pleasure, a ready speaker, honest and upright, naturally inclining to the liberal side. He had little chap. XV.} 1765. July. sagacity, but he meant well; and, in after years,tions, he had seen Pitt at Stowe, and been fascinated by his powers; he took office, in the hope that the ministry might adopt the Great Commoner as its chief. Conway, who had been arbitrarily dismissed from military office, was suggested, as Grafton's associate. But thinking men foresaw peril to the stamp act, in intrusting its execution to one of the very few persons who had opposed the passing of it; and the king wished to consign that office to Charles Townshend, by whom it had so long
Saint James (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
rrying into execution the American stamp act; made an enumeration of the several districts for inspection; provided for supplying vacant places among the stamp distributors; and on the ninth, his very last day in office, consulted about removing incidental objections to the measure, in which he gloried as his own. Meantime Cumberland had succeeded in forming an administration out of the remnants of the old whig aristocracy and their successors; and on the tenth Grenville was summoned to St. James's to surrender the seals of his office. By what means have I drawn down your Majesty's displeasure? asked the dis- chap. XV.} 1765. July. carded minister. I have found myself too much constrained, answered the king; and when I have had any thing proposed to me, it was no longer as counsel, but what I was to obey. Grenville then told him, that he understood the plan of his new administration was a total subversion of every act of the former; that nothing having been undertaken as a me
Rockingham, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
, who had a seat in the cabinet as its protector. But younger men also came into power, giving hope for the future. In place of Grenville, the able debater, the learned jurist, the post of head of the treasury was assigned to the marquis of Rockingham. He was an inexperienced man of five and thirty, possessing no great natural abilities, of a feeble constitution, and a nervous timidity which made him almost incapable of speaking in public; acquainted with race-courses, and the pedigree of hbusiness, distinguished only for his piety; The one who wears a coronet and prays. A peerage was conferred on Pratt, who took the chap. XV.} 1765. July. name of Camden; though Rockingham was averse to his advancement. But it was through Rockingham himself, that Lord George Sackville, who had been degraded while Pitt was minister, was restored to a seat at the Council Board, and raised to one of the lucrative vicetreasurerships of Ireland. Thus was an administration, whose policy had b
Culloden (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
t Commoner as its chief. Conway, who had been arbitrarily dismissed from military office, was suggested, as Grafton's associate. But thinking men foresaw peril to the stamp act, in intrusting its execution to one of the very few persons who had opposed the passing of it; and the king wished to consign that office to Charles Townshend, by whom it had so long been coveted. Who can tell how America would have fared under him, in an administration whose patron and adviser was the victor at Culloden? But though the king, in person, used every argument to prevail with him, yet he declined to join in a system which he compared to lutestring, fit only for summer wear. Even so late as on the ninth of July, the king, who had reserved the place of secretary at war for Conway, renewed his entreaties; but the decisive refusal of Townshend, who held fast to his lucrative office of paymaster, threw the seals of the southern department and America, at the very last moment, into the hands of Con
Somerset (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 15
see more misfortunes in your majesty's reign than in any former period of history. Deserted in this wise by the connection in whom he had trusted, Pitt immediately sought an interview with the king, who accepted his excuses, and parted from him very civilly. Thus passed what seemed to him the most difficult and painful crisis of his life. All is now over with me, said he despondingly, and by a fatality I did not expect; and with grief and disappointment in his heart, he retired into Somersetshire. Let us see, said the ministers, if the duke of Cumberland will be desperate enough to form an administration without Pitt and Temple. Northington assured them, that they might remain in office if chap. XV.} 1765. June they chose. The most wary gave in their adhesion; even Charles Yorke went to Grenville and declared his support, and Gilbert Elliott did the like. Our cause is in your hands, said the Bedfords to Grenville, and you will do it justice. This was the moment of his g
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