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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
abinet no avowed opposition except from Bedford. On this point the king and his friends made a rally, Wiffen's Russell, II. 473. and the answer to the French ultimatum, peremptorily rejecting it and making the appeal to arms, Pitt to Bussy, 15 Aug., 1761. was adopted in the cabinet by a majority of but one voice. Why, asked George, as he read it, why were not words chosen in which all might have concurred? and his agitation was such as he had never before shown. Bute to Pitt, 14 Aug., 1761. The friends of Bedford mourned over the continuance of the war, and the danger of its involving Spain. Pitt, said they, does govern, not in the cabinet council only, but in the opinions of the people. Rigby forgot his country so far as to wish ill success to its arms; Rigby 27 Aug. in Wiffen, II. 473. but with the multitude, the thirst for conquest was the madness of the times. Men applauded a war which was continued for no definite purpose whatever. But on the fifteenth of Aug