In 1768, Edmund Jennings of Virginia, being in London, and seeking, probably unsuccessfully, to get a portrait of Camden for some "gentlemen of Westmoreland County" who had subscribed for that purpose, contented himself with commissioning young "Peele, of Maryland", then in London, to make a picture of Chatham, following "an admirable bust by Wilton, much like him, though different from the common prints." Jennings presented it to R. H. Lee in a letter dated Nov. 15, 1768, and the _Virginia Gazette_ of April 20, 1769, says it had just arrived. The picture was placed in Stratford Hall, Lee's house, but was transferred to the Court-House of Westmoreland in 1825, or thereabouts. In 1847 it was transferred to the State of Virginia, and placed in the chamber of the House of Delegates in Richmond, where it now is. It represents Chatham "in consular habit, speaking in defence of American liberty." Cf. _Va. Hist. Reg._, i. p. 68; _Richmond Despatch_, Sept. 26, 1886. There is an engraving of Hoare's portrait of Chatham, representing him sitting and holding a paper, given in fac-simile in _Mag. of Amer. Hist._, Feb., 1887. On the statue of Pitt at Charleston, S. C., see _Mag. of Amer. History_, viii. 214. For medals, see account by W. S. Appleton in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, xi. 299. D'Auberteuil, in his _Essais_, ii. 93, gives a curious picture of Pitt in Parliament on crutches, with more gout in his features than in his legs. Cf. Doyle's _Official Baronage_, i. 359.] One of the most powerful pleas for conciliation was made in Richard Price's _Observations on the nature of civil liberty ... and the justice and policy of the war with America_ (London, 1776, in six editions, at least; Boston, 1776, etc.).[317] [Illustration: DR. PRICE. From the _London Magazine_, May, 1776 (p. 227). "Published by R. Baldwin, June 1, 1776."] For the mutations and progress of opinion in England at this time we may follow Bancroft (orig. ed., vol. viii.) and Smyth (_Lectures_, nos. 31-33), and the latter compares the expressions of this progress as recorded in Ramsay and the _Annual Register_.[318] [Illustration] For the aspects of political leadership in Parliament during 1775-76, and the struggles in debates, see the _Parliamentary History_ and the _Amer. Archives_,[319] and we may offset among the general histories the Tory sympathies of Adolphus (_England_, ii. ch. 24) with the liberal tendencies of Massey (_Hist. of England_), but the lives of the principal leaders bring us a little nearer to the spirits of the hour.[320] During 1775 Franklin in London was maintaining his correspondence with his American friends,[321] and conferring with Chatham upon plans of conciliation,[322] and discussing the ways of compromise with Lord and Lady Howe.[323] CHAPTER II. THE CONFLICT PRECIPITATED. BY JUSTIN WINSOR, _The Editor_.