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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
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