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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
he people of England to a continuance of the war. Richard Jackson to Wm. S. Johnson, 30 Nov., 1784, Ms. Carlisle, the first commissioner, had in the house of lords spoken with warmth upon the insolence of the rebels for refusing to treat with the Howes, and had stigmatized the people of America as base and unnatural children of England. The second commissioner was an under-secretary, whose chief, a few weeks before, in the same assembly, had scoffed at congress as a body of vagrants. Suffolk, 11 Dec., 1777, in Almon, x. 119; Burke, III. 372. The third was Johnstone, who had lately in parliament justified the Americans and charged the king with hypocrisy. There never was any expectation on the part of the ministry that the commission would be successful, or it would have been differently constituted. In the certainty that it would not be received, Germain had given orders for the prosecution of the war, and on a different plan, Most secret instructions of Lord George Germai
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 11: (search)
last war, has once deceived me so unworthily. Frederic to Maltzan, 20 Jan., 1778; Elliot to Suffolk, 22 Feb., 1778, and Ibid., private and secret, of same date. Nevertheless the British cabinet persisted in seeking aid from Russia and the friendship of the king of Prussia. Suffolk to Elliot, 7 April, 1778. But from Petersburg Harris wrote: Chap. XI.} 1778. They never will be broughtur contest with the colonies. Our influence, never very high, has quite vanished. Harris to Suffolk, 2 Feb., to Sir I. Yorke, 1 May, 1778. Frederic relented so far as to allow a few recruits for but proposals for closer relations with England were inflexibly declined. He is hostile, wrote Suffolk, Suffolk to Harris, 9 Jan., 1778. to that kingdom to whose liberal support in the last war hSuffolk to Harris, 9 Jan., 1778. to that kingdom to whose liberal support in the last war he owes his present existence amongst the powers of Europe; and the British ministry of that day looked upon the aid which he had received in the time of the elder Pitt as a very grave mistake. Rep
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 12: (search)
either put in deliberation nor answered. The British secretary of state could find no ground for complaint whatever. Suffolk to Yorke, 17 July, 1778. Still the merchants of Amsterdam saw in the independence of the United States a virtual repe to Yorke, 27 Oct., 1778; Secrete Resolutie van de Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Neder landen, 28 Oct., 1778; Yorke to Suffolk, 30 Oct., 1778. During the summer of 1778, British cruisers and Chap. XII.} 1778. privateers, swept on by the greedike the Netherlands. To the complaints of the Dutch that the clearest language of treaties was disregarded, the Earl of Suffolk answered that the British ambassador at the Hague should have instructions to negotiate with the republic new stipulations for the future; Suffolk to Welderen, 19 Oct., 1778. but for the present, treaty or no treaty, England would not suffer materials for ship-building to be taken by the Dutch to any French port; and its cruisers and its admiralty were instructed