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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
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. had he made way unreservedly for a sole minister in his stead, the aristocratic party might have recovered and long retained the entire control of the administration. Fox to the Duke of Cumber-land, in Albemarle's Memoirs of Rockingham, i. 131. By his instances to retire, made a half a year before, the king had been so troubled, that he frequently sat for hours together leaning his head upon his arm without speaking; Grenville's Narrative, in the Grenville Papers, i. 435. chap. V.} 1763. Mar. and at last when he consented to a change, it was on condition that in the new administration there should be no chief minister. For a moment Grenville, to whom the treasury was offered, affected to b
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
hard for me to believe that the Duke of Newcastle will, with Lord Hardwicke, &c. continue a violent or peevish opposition, &c &c. Bedford Cor. III. 226. but against the positive and repeated advice Grenville's Diary, in Grenville Papers, II. 191. of his three ministers, directed Egremont to invite Lord Hardwicke to enter the cabinet, as President of the Council. It is impossible for me, said Hardwicke, at an interview on the first day of August, The date of Newcastle's letter, in Albemarle's Memoirs of Rockingham, i. 169, is given as of June 30, 1763, a mistake, for the letter refers to the conversation held in August. to accept an employment, whilst all my friends are out of court. Hardwicke to his son, 5 August, 1763, in Harris, 370. The king, said Egremont, cannot bring himself to submit to take in a party in gross, or an opposition party. A king of England, answered Hardwicke, at the head of a popular government, especially as of late the popular scale has grown heav
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
transacted the business; but the secretaries of state chap. XII.} 1765. May 16. claimed equal power, as in the months of the triumvirate; in the language of Woburn, Bedford was my minister; and, in point of fact, the ministers were four. Now, however, Bedford took the undisputed lead, insisting that they all should act in perfect union; and Grenville, concealing his deep distrust of his colleagues, gave and received promises to withstand the court with inseparable fidelity. On Friday, Albemarle repaired once more to Pitt, 17. but met no success. In London, the weavers, threatening death to the duke of Bedford, assembled in the evening round his house, which they might have sacked and destroyed but for the timely presence of an armed force. The town was in commotion, and persons of all parties hastened to Bedford House to mark their abhorrence of the riot and their joy at its suppression. The dismissing Bedford at such a moment had the aspect of inviting the mob to dictate a n
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
y of the city seemed to him greatly humiliating. He watched with extreme anxiety the preliminary meeting of the friends of the ministry; and when the day for opening parliament came, he was impatient to receive a minute report of all that should occur. Geo. III. to Conway, 7 Dec. The Earl of Hardwicke, Hugh Hammersley to Lieut. Gov. Sharpe, Dec. 1765, gives a very good report of the debate. Compare Philimore's Lyttelton, II. 687. himself opposed to the lenity of Rockingham, Albemarle, i. 284. moved the address in the House of Lords, pledging the House to bring to the consideration of the state of affairs in America, a resolution to do every thing which the exigency of the case might require. The Earl of Suffolk, a young man of five-and-twenty, proposed to express indignation at the insurrections in North America, and concurrence in measures to enforce the legal obedience of the colonies, and their dependence on the sovereign authority of the kingdom. This amendment
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 23: (search)
d satisfy America. Yet the opponents of concession claimed for their side the name of the king, whose opinions they declared that Rockingham had falsified. The irritated chief summoned the author of the rumor to meet him at the palace. There, on Wednesday, the twelfth of February, they went into the closet alternately, From the Diary of the Earl of Dartmouth, who at that moment was in the antechamber, and received the, account from Rockingham on his coming out from the king. Compare Albemarle, i. 301. two or three times each, to reconcile the seeming contradiction. For fear of mistakes, Rockingham wrote with a pencil these words: Lord Rockingham was authorized by his majesty, on Friday last, to say that his majesty was for the repeal. It is very true, said the king, as he read the paper; but I must make an addition to it; upon which he took a pen, and wrote at the end of it, the conversation having been only concerning that or enforcing. He added, I desire you would tell Lor