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February (search for this): chapter 5
e to tax America by the British parliament, and Resigns. February—April, 1763. at the peace of 1763 the fame of England was ex- chap. V.} 1763. Feb. alted throughout Europe above that of all other nations. She had triumphed over those whom shnted time had come, the Earl of Bute, with chap. V.} 1763. Feb. the full concurrence of the king, making the change which he illustrious jurist, who had boasted pub- chap. V.} 1763. Feb. licly of his early determination never to engage in public his advancement, Townshend became at once chap. V.} 1763. Feb. the most important man in the House of Commons; for Fox como office, their continuance in it, and the chap. V.} 1763. Feb. amount and payment of their emoluments; so that the corps om it was to oppress. To complete the sys- chap. V.} 1763. Feb. tem, the navigation acts were to be strictly enforced. It ntly subject to the influence of governors chap. V.} 1763. Feb. was to them an object of terror; and, from tenderness to th
February 23rd (search for this): chapter 5
to all the American governments, as well of the old established as the new acquired colonies; and did transmit to them, at the same time, copies of the order in council, of the 11th March, 1752; and the explanatory letters of the secretary of state, as the rule at their future correspondence. Paper by the Earl of Hillsborough, in the Lansdowne House manuscripts. called also to a seat in the cabinet, and enjoying direct access to the king on the affairs of his department, he, on the twenty-third of February, became secretary of state for the colonies in all but the name. Rigby to Bedford, 23 February, 1763, in the Bedford Correspondence, III. 210. In the council, in which Townshend took a place, there was Bute, its chief, having the entire confidence of his sovereign; the proud restorer of peace, fully impressed with the necessity of bringing the colonies into order, Knox, agent of Georgia. In Extra-official State Papers, II. 29. and ready to give his support to the highest
March (search for this): chapter 5
aced in dependence on the crown chap. V.} 1763 Mar. avowedly for political purposes. The king, in n Taxation. in the gallery for chap. V.} 1763. Mar. one of his hearers, he dazzled country gentlemecollection; and he did it with chap. V.} 1763. Mar. such bold impetuosity that, short as the term w, as if to exhibit in the most chap. V.} 1763. Mar. glaring manner the absence of all just ground fdollars. The appropriation was chap. V.} 1763. Mar. the most formal recognition that even in the la very time when the ministry of chap. V.} 1763 Mar. Bute was planning the thorough overthrow of col vice-admiralty courts, and by chap. V.} 1763. Mar. a curiously devised system, Smith's Wealth oed for the first year of peace chap. V.} 1763. Mar. amounted to seventy millions of dollars; and thent resistance. No one utter- chap. V.} 1763. Mar. ed a word for America. The bill for raising a the Grenville Papers, i. 435. chap. V.} 1763. Mar. and at last when he consented to a change, it w
March 29th (search for this): chapter 5
ons, Lords, and King against the measure; and the cities of Exeter and Worcester instructed their members to oppose it. The House of Lords divided upon it; and two protests against it appeared on their journals. Journals of House of Lords, of March 29 and March 30. Thus, an English tax, which came afterwards to be regarded as proper, met with turbulent resistance. No one utter- chap. V.} 1763. Mar. ed a word for America. The bill for raising a revenue there was quietly read twice and comm hollow; Adolplus i. he might well be afraid of falling; and if he persisted, of injuring the king by his fall. Charles Townshend made haste to retire from the cabinet; and his bill for raising a revenue in the plantations was, on the twenty-ninth of March, Journals of House of Commons, XXIX. 623. postponed. Had Bute continued longer at the head of affairs, the government must soon have been at the mercy of a successful opposition: Bute to one of his friends, in Adolphus i. 117. ha
March 30th (search for this): chapter 5
wly out of the house. Rigby to the Duke of Bedford, 10 March, 1763. Correspondence III. 218. Yet the ministry persevered, though the cider counties were in a flame; the city of London, proceeding beyond all precedent, petitioned Commons, Lords, and King against the measure; and the cities of Exeter and Worcester instructed their members to oppose it. The House of Lords divided upon it; and two protests against it appeared on their journals. Journals of House of Lords, of March 29 and March 30. Thus, an English tax, which came afterwards to be regarded as proper, met with turbulent resistance. No one utter- chap. V.} 1763. Mar. ed a word for America. The bill for raising a revenue there was quietly read twice and committed. Journals of House of Commons, XXIX. 606, 614, 617. But yet this matter, observed Calvert, may be obstructed under a Scotch premier minister, the Earl of Bute, against whom a strong party is forming. The ministry itself was crumbling. The king was
June 14th (search for this): chapter 5
the House of Representatives, 12 March, 1763, to be found in Massachusetts' Council Letter Book of Entries, i. 384, relates, that, a few days before, the secretary at war had proposed an establishment of twenty regiments for America, to be supported the first year by England, afterwards by the colonies. Compare, too, same to same, 11 Feb., 1764. See also, the accounts received in Charleston, S. C., copied into Weyman's N. Y. Gazette, 4 July, 1763, 238, 2, 2, and 3: Charleston, S. C., June 14th.—It is pretty certain that twenty British regiments, amounting to 10,000 effective men, are allotted to this continent and the British islands; some of them are to come here, but from whence, and their number, is equally uncertain. There are letters in town which positively say, that these troops are to be paid the first year only by Great Britain, and that every article of expense afterwards is to be defrayed by the colonies. and ever after by the colonies themselves. With Edmund Burke
September 17th (search for this): chapter 5
f their illicit dealings with the Spanish main, he recommended to Bute the more rigid enforcement of the laws of navigation; and on the very day on which the bill for a regular plantation revenue was reported to the house, he was put on a committee to carry his counsel into effect. March had not ended when a bill was brought in, Journals of the House of Commons, XXIX. 609. Statutes at large, VII. 443. 3 George III. chap. XXII. Lieut. Governor Hutchinson's private letter to R. Jackson, 17 Sept. departments of public offices, and to 1763. Admiral Colville to Lieut.; Gov. Colden, 14 Oct. 1763; also Egremont's Circular of 9 July, 1763. giving authority to employ the ships, seamen and officers of the navy as custom-house officers and informers. The measure was Grenville's own, and it was rapidly carried through; so that in three short weeks it became lawful, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to Cape Florida, for each commander of an armed vessel to stop and examine, and, in case of
1688 AD (search for this): chapter 5
uncil in 1753. and, in conformity to them, had asserted that an act of parliament in Great Britain could alone prescribe rules for the reduction of refractory colonial assemblies. Opinion of Sir Dudley Rider and Hon. William Murray, Attorney and Solicitor General, in October, 1744.— There was George Grenville, then first Lord of the Admiralty, bred to the law; and ever anxious to demonstrate that all the measures which he advocated reposed on the British Constitution, and the precedents of 1688; eager to make every part of the British empire tributary to the prosperity of Great Britain, and making the plenary authority of the British Legislature the first article of his political creed.—There was the place as Keeper of the Privy Seal for Bedford, the head of the house of Russell, and the great representative of the landed aristocracy of Great Britain, absent from England at the moment, but, through his friends, ready to applaud the new colonial system, to which he had long ago becom
October, 1744 AD (search for this): chapter 5
lustrious jurist, who had boasted pub- chap. V.} 1763. Feb. licly of his early determination never to engage in public life, but upon whig principles; Murray's speech in his own defence before the Lords of the Privy Council in 1753. and, in conformity to them, had asserted that an act of parliament in Great Britain could alone prescribe rules for the reduction of refractory colonial assemblies. Opinion of Sir Dudley Rider and Hon. William Murray, Attorney and Solicitor General, in October, 1744.— There was George Grenville, then first Lord of the Admiralty, bred to the law; and ever anxious to demonstrate that all the measures which he advocated reposed on the British Constitution, and the precedents of 1688; eager to make every part of the British empire tributary to the prosperity of Great Britain, and making the plenary authority of the British Legislature the first article of his political creed.—There was the place as Keeper of the Privy Seal for Bedford, the head of the h
March 11th, 1752 AD (search for this): chapter 5
of it. assigned to Charles Townshend the office of first lord of trade, with the administration of the colonies. Assuming larger powers than had ever been exercised by any of his predecessors except Halifax, It appears, upon Mr. Townsbend's entry upon his office, the board of trade did notify their appointment to all the American governments, as well of the old established as the new acquired colonies; and did transmit to them, at the same time, copies of the order in council, of the 11th March, 1752; and the explanatory letters of the secretary of state, as the rule at their future correspondence. Paper by the Earl of Hillsborough, in the Lansdowne House manuscripts. called also to a seat in the cabinet, and enjoying direct access to the king on the affairs of his department, he, on the twenty-third of February, became secretary of state for the colonies in all but the name. Rigby to Bedford, 23 February, 1763, in the Bedford Correspondence, III. 210. In the council, in whi
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