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The history of the rise, progress, and establishment of the independence of the United States of America, Vol. 2 (of 3) : $b Including an account of the late war, and of the thirteen colonies, from their origin to that periodGordon, William

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The history of the rise, progress, and establishment of the independence of the United States of America, Vol. 2 (of 3) : $b Including an account of the late war, and of the thirteen colonies, from their origin to that period

Name: The history of the rise, progress, and establishment of the independence of the United States of America, Vol. 2 (of 3) : $b Including an account of the late war, and of the thirteen colonies, from their origin to that period
Author: Gordon, William

Gordon, William

United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

This brought on an interesting and animating debate, which terminated in
the question’s being put, when lord Chatham’s motion was rejected by a
majority of 99 to 28. The ministry had obtained all they wanted from
parliament; were confident in their own conceit and in the success of
their measures; and would attend to no remonstrances of reason.

The general assembly of the church of Scotland, in an address to his
majesty, among many expressions of loyalty, declared that, sensible of
their own felicity, they observed with concern, the first appearance of
a turbulent and ungovernable spirit among the people of North-America;
that they had with astonishment contemplated its alarming progress, and
beheld fellow-subjects, who enjoyed in common with them, the blessings
of his majesty’s mild administration, take up arms in opposition to
lawful authority, disclaim the supremacy of the British legislature,
reject with disdain the means of reconciliation, and labour to erect
their unlawful confederacy into separate states. They then, with
reverence and gratitude to Divine Providence, offer their
congratulations for the success which has attended the fleets and
armies, that have been employed to oppose the violence of rebellious,
subjects, and to reclaim them to a sense of their duty: and conclude
with acknowledging it their immediate duty, in the present situation of
public affairs, to increase their diligence, not only in confirming the
people under their care in sentiments of loyalty, but by inciting them
to such reformation in their hearts and lives, as will avert from their
country those judgments which their iniquities justly deserve.

[June 6.] His majesty went to the house of peers, and after giving his
royal assent to a number of bills, closed the session with a speech
which finished with saying, “My lords and gentlemen, I trust in Divine
Providence, that by a well-concerted and vigorous exertion of the great
force you have put into my hands, the opperations of this campaign, by
sea and land, will be blessed with such success as may most effectually
tend to the suppression of the rebellion in America, and to the
re-establishment of that constitutional obedience which all the subjects
of a free state owe to the authority of the law.”

In the beginning of May, a captain Cunningham, in a privateer fitted out
from Dunkirk, took and carried into that port the British packet going
to Holland. Not understanding thoroughly the business on which he was
sent, and being hurried, he was not careful to secure insantly, upon the
capture of the vessel, the packet intrusted with the king’s messenger,
which he therefore missed of; but the mail was taken and forwarded to
the American commissioners at Paris. Adieu.




                              LETTER VIII.


                                            _Roxbury, October 30, 1777._

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History

The history of the rise, progress, and establishment of the independence of the United States of America, Vol. 2 (of 3) : $b Including an account of the late war, and of the thirteen colonies, from their origin to that period

Gordon, William

United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

This brought on an interesting and animating debate, which terminated in
the question’s being put, when lord Chatham’s motion was rejected by a
majority of 99 to 28. The ministry had obtained all they wanted from
parliament; were confident in their own conceit and in the success of
their measures; and would attend to no remonstrances of reason.

The general assembly of the church of Scotland, in an address to his
majesty, among many expressions of loyalty, declared that, sensible of
their own felicity, they observed with concern, the first appearance of
a turbulent and ungovernable spirit among the people of North-America;
that they had with astonishment contemplated its alarming progress, and
beheld fellow-subjects, who enjoyed in common with them, the blessings
of his majesty’s mild administration, take up arms in opposition to
lawful authority, disclaim the supremacy of the British legislature,
reject with disdain the means of reconciliation, and labour to erect
their unlawful confederacy into separate states. They then, with
reverence and gratitude to Divine Providence, offer their
congratulations for the success which has attended the fleets and
armies, that have been employed to oppose the violence of rebellious,
subjects, and to reclaim them to a sense of their duty: and conclude
with acknowledging it their immediate duty, in the present situation of
public affairs, to increase their diligence, not only in confirming the
people under their care in sentiments of loyalty, but by inciting them
to such reformation in their hearts and lives, as will avert from their
country those judgments which their iniquities justly deserve.

[June 6.] His majesty went to the house of peers, and after giving his
royal assent to a number of bills, closed the session with a speech
which finished with saying, “My lords and gentlemen, I trust in Divine
Providence, that by a well-concerted and vigorous exertion of the great
force you have put into my hands, the opperations of this campaign, by
sea and land, will be blessed with such success as may most effectually
tend to the suppression of the rebellion in America, and to the
re-establishment of that constitutional obedience which all the subjects
of a free state owe to the authority of the law.”

In the beginning of May, a captain Cunningham, in a privateer fitted out
from Dunkirk, took and carried into that port the British packet going
to Holland. Not understanding thoroughly the business on which he was
sent, and being hurried, he was not careful to secure insantly, upon the
capture of the vessel, the packet intrusted with the king’s messenger,
which he therefore missed of; but the mail was taken and forwarded to
the American commissioners at Paris. Adieu.




                              LETTER VIII.


                                            _Roxbury, October 30, 1777._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The history of the rise, progress, and establishment of the independence of the United States of America, Vol. 2 (of 3) : $b Including an account of the late war, and of the thirteen colonies, from their origin to that period

The history of the rise, progress, and establishment of the independence of the United States of America, Vol. 2 (of 3) : $b Including an account of the late war, and of the thirteen colonies, from their origin to that period

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