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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 12: (search)
antages to Great Britain in its contest with its colonies, and never would guarantee its American dominions. Harris to Suffolk, 13 Feb., 1778. Not printed in Malmes bury Papers. After the avowal by France of its treaties with the colonies, the British minister at Petersburg asked an audience of the empress; his request was refused, and all his complaints of the court of Versailles drew from her only civil words and lukewarm expressions of friendship. But when in the summer, the General Mifflin, an American privateer, hovered off the North Cape, and took seven or more British vessels bound for Archangel, Panin informed Harris ministerially, that although the vessels which were taken were foreign, yet it was the Russian trade which was molested; that so long as the British treated the Americans as rebels, the court of Petersburg would look upon them as a people not yet entitled to recognition. For the next year the empress proposed the equipment of a line of cruisers to ply be