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Gibraltar (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 30

s if Mr. de Vergennes himself were speaking to me, were the words with which he was welcomed. Gibraltar, observed Rayneval, is as dear to the king of Spain as his life. Shelburne answered: Its cessRayneval met Lord 16. Grantham. Nothing could be more decided than his refusal to treat about Gibraltar. On the seventeenth, 17. in bidding farewell to Rayneval, Shelburne said, in the most seriouon, Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Sept. the French and Spanish fleets united under his command to reduce Gibraltar; and Count d'artois, the brother of the king, passed through Madrid to be present at its surre Indies while undertaking to conquer Jamaica for Spain; and it now shares in the defeat before Gibraltar. Vergennes saw that France needed and demanded repose. To obtain a release from his engagemeack lands and the fisheries; the Americans were still less bound to continue the war to obtain Gibraltar for Spain. 25. Early in the morning of the twenty-fifth, the king was urging Shelburne to co

Camden, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 30

rsuaded Adams and Jay to join with him in letters to Oswald and to Strachey, expressing in conciliatory language their unanimous sentiments that an amnesty more extensive than what had already been agreed to could not be granted to the refugees. Before Strachey reached London with the second set of articles for peace, the friends of Fox had forgotten their zeal for American independence. All parties unanimously demanded amnesty and indemnity for the loyalists. Within the cabinet itself, Camden and Grafton were ill at ease; Keppell and Richmond inclining to cut loose. The king could not avoid mentioning how sensibly he felt the dismemberment of America from the empire: I should be miserable indeed, said he, if I did not feel that no blame on that account can be laid at my Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Nov. door. Moreover, he thought so ill of its inhabitants, that it may not, he said, in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom. In the general tremulousness among

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d to the fisheries as they exercised them by the title of English subjects, do they, in the name of justice, think to obtain rights attached to the condition of subjects which they renounce? France would not prolong the war to secure to the Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Nov. 25. Americans the back lands and the fisheries; the Americans were still less bound to continue the war to obtain Gibraltar for Spain. 25. Early in the morning of the twenty-fifth, the king was urging Shelburne to confide in Vergennes his ideas concerning America, saying, France must wish to assist us in keeping the Americans from a concurrent fishery, which the looseness of the article with that people as now drawn up gives but too much room to apprehend. Before Shelburne could have received the admonition, Adams, Franklin, and Jay met Oswald and Strachey at Oswald's lodgings. Strachey opened the parley by an elaborate speech, in which he explained the changes in the article on the fisheries, and that the restitution

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