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self 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 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 to
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cted both; but Temple inflexibly resisted Pitt's judgment, declaration, and most earnest remonstrance; he would not consent to supplant the brother whose present measures he applauded, and with whom he had just been reconciled; and Pitt felt himself disabled by this refusal. As they parted, he said pathetically, in the words of a Roman poet: You, brother, bring ruin on me, and on yourself, and on the people, and the peers, and your country. When Temple, on the morning of Tuesday, the twenty-second, received the visit of Grenville, he appeared under great agitation. He was still nervous and trembling when he went in to the king, and declined entering his service in any office, assigning reasons of the most tender and delicate nature, which he did not explain. I am afraid, he added —and it was the king himself who repeated the remark—I foresee 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 tr
February 3rd (search for this): chapter 15
nd parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter. This is not what Franklin wrote. To bear with kings and parliaments and to get rid of kings and parliaments, are very different things. Franklin was long-suffering, and waited some years yet before he advised to get rid of kings. He himself printed a part of this letter, but with amplifications, in the London Chronicle of Nov. 14 to 16, 1765, from which it was copied into Weyman's New-York Gazette of Feb. 3, and other papers. In all of them, as well as in the letter itself, the words are, bear the atter, and not, get rid of the latter. admitted no hope of success. An order in council Report of the Lords in Council, 26 July, 1765., sanctioned by the name, and apparently, by the advice of Lord Dartmouth—perhaps the worst order ever proposed by the Board of Trade, so bad that it was explained away by the crown lawyers as impossible to have been intended—permitted appeals to the privy council
June 12th (search for this): chapter 15
whom they displaced. 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, being resolved once more on an explanation, he recapitulated to his sovereign in person what had passed between him and his ministers on their resuming their functions, when he had promised them his countenance and support. chap. XV.} 1765. June. Has this promise, he demanded, been kept? On the contrary, are not almost all our bitter enemies countenanced in public? Has not the earl of Bute, as the favorite, interfered, at least indirectly, in public councils, with the utmost hazar
June 14th (search for this): chapter 15
by chap. XV.} 1765 June union, divisions that could not be healed, planted confusion in the councils of its oppressors. We left the king quivering with wounded pride at the affront from his ministers. But far from giving way, he thwarted their suggestions about appointments to office, frowned on those whom they promoted, and publicly showed regard to his friends whom they displaced. 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, being resolved once more on an explanation, he recapitulated to his sovereign in person what had passed between him and his
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tire, or to push matters so far as to provoke their dismissal. The thoroughly wise Grenville was expected to counterwork the king with Temple; for their reconciliation had been attended with the mutual engagement to act together in future; and if Temple and Pitt would only be neuter, a removal of the ministry appeared impossible. The king, who was resolved at all hazards to make a change, again appealed to Cumberland, and through him summoned Pitt to an audience. On Wednesday, the nineteenth of June, in an interview which continued for three hours, the conversation turned not only 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 the American colonies from trade with the Spanish islands, and against the taxation of the colonies by act of parliament, which nothing but extreme illness had prevented him from opposing in the House of Commons,
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The king had been complaining in strong terms of July. the little business done, and especially of the negsty's displeasure? asked the dis- chap. XV.} 1765. July. carded minister. I have found myself too much cons with the patronage of the church. chap. XV.} 1765. July. The law adviser of its choice, as attorney general,Edmund Burke, who had recently es- chap. XV.} 1765. July. caped from the service of one of the opposite partyo the liberal side. He had little chap. XV.} 1765. July. sagacity, but he meant well; and, in after years, pnotions of the colonies. His tem- chap. XV.} 1765. July. per was mild and moderate; in his inquiries he was s conferred on Pratt, who took the chap. XV.} 1765. July. name of Camden; though Rockingham was averse to hisncellor, Yorke, and Charles Towns- chap. XV.} 1765. July. hend, were among its earliest and most strenuous supoint. We might as well have hun- chap. XV.} 1765. July. dered the sun's setting: that we could not do. But
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ministry; he was looked up to and owned by the Bedfords as their savior and protector. His ambition, his vanity, and his self — will were gratified. The king had been complaining in strong terms of July. the little business 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 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 s
July 9th (search for this): chapter 15
ion 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 Conway. The new secretary, like Shelburne and Edmund Burke, was an Irishman, and, therefore, disposed to have very just notions of the colonies. His tem- chap. XV.} 1765. July. per was mild and moderate
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ich makes Franklin say: Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily get rid of the latter. This is not what Franklin wrote. To bear with kings and parliaments and to get rid of kings and parliaments, are very different things. Franklin was long-suffering, and waited some years yet before he advised to get rid of kings. He himself printed a part of this letter, but with amplifications, in the London Chronicle of Nov. 14 to 16, 1765, from which it was copied into Weyman's New-York Gazette of Feb. 3, and other papers. In all of them, as well as in the letter itself, the words are, bear the atter, and not, get rid of the latter. admitted no hope of success. An order in council Report of the Lords in Council, 26 July, 1765., sanctioned by the name, and apparently, by the advice of Lord Dartmouth—perhaps the worst order ever proposed by the Board of Trade, so bad that it was explained away by the crown law
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