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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
e example which he should otherwise give to his own possessions. As well acknowledge their independence as accord them assistance, began Montmorin; but the minister cut him short, saying: Nothing will come of your insisting on this article. Montmnoin to Vergennes, 29 March, 1779. Now that no more was to be gained, Florida Blanca himself made a draft of a convention, and suddenly presented it to Montmorin. A few verbal corrections were agreed upon, and on the evening of the twelfth April 12. of April the treaty was signed. By its terms France bound herself to undertake the invasion of Great Britain or Ireland; if she could drive the British from Newfoundland, its fisheries were to be shared only with Spain. For trifling benefits to be acquired for herself, she promised to use every effort to recover for Spain Minorca, Pensacola, and Mobile, the bay of Honduras, and the coast of Campeachy; and the two courts bound themselves not to grant peace, nor truce, nor suspension of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 27: (search)
ould be given up. With America, therefore, measures for a general peace must begin. As the pacification of the late British dependencies belonged exclusively to the department of Lord Shelburne, the other members of the cabinet should have respected his right. As a body, they did so; but Fox, leagued with young men as uncontrollable as himself, resolved to fasten a quarrel upon him, and to get into his own hands every part of the negotiations for peace. At a cabinet meeting on the twelfth of April, he told Shel- 12. burne and those who sided with him, that he was determined to bring the matter to a crisis; and on the same day he wrote to one of his young friends: They must yield entirely. If they do not, we must go to war again; that is all: I am sure I am ready. Oswald at the time was on his way to Paris, where on the sixteenth he went straightway to Franklin. 16. The latter, speaking not his own opinion only, but that of congress and of every one of his associate commissio