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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 21: (search)
g truce of at least twenty years, during which South Carolina and Georgia would remain with the English in return for the evacuation of New York. He had sounded Washington and others in America on the subject, and they all had repelled the idea. There are none but the mediators, wrote Vergennes, who could make to the United States so grievous an offer. It would be hard for France to propose it, because she has guaranteed the independence of the thirteen states. Vergennes to Luzerne, 1 Feb., 1781. Kaunitz, accordingly, set himself to work to bring the mediation to a successful issue. In the month of April, young Laurens arrived Chap. XXI.} 1781. at Versailles, preceded by importunate letters from Rochambeau and Lafayette to the ministry. His demand was for a loan of twenty-five million livres to be raised for the United States on the credit of the king of France, and in support of it he communicated to the French ministry his letter of advice from Washington. Franklin had la