This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...almost insignificant, and the pompous accounts of beneficial commerce with America were generally discredited, since a long protracted suspension of intercourse had produced no alarming effects; but, on the contrary, the strength and resources of the country surpassed expectation, and exposed to ridicule the gloomy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...almost insignificant, and the pompous accounts of beneficial commerce with America were generally discredited, since a long protracted suspension of intercourse had produced no alarming effects; but, on the contrary, the strength and resources of the country surpassed expectation, and exposed to ridicule the gloomy forebodings of theoretical financiers. The grant of American independence was therefore contemplated as a moderate medium for the acquisition of peace; nor was the necessity of yielding to a formidable combination considered derogatory to the national honour, which had been so gloriously maintained during the struggle. Had it been thought expedient to aim at exciting strenuous sentiments of enthusiasm, the state of the public mind was peculiarly unfavourable. The State of the public mind. signed a declaration of his desire to become a party to the armed league, and the Empress an answer, expressing her readiness to admit him. Chiefly from private information and official correspondence, particularly that of Lord Stormont with Sir James Harris, and Sir Robert Murray Keith, Ambassadors at Petersburgh and Vienna, in 1780 and 1781; in the State Paper Office. dejection which proceeded from ill success and the vi-ni' apprehension of undefined calamity, rendered the ad vocates of government timid and languid; but it was nsi. obvious that, with a return of good fortune, their spirits would have revived and their efforts would have been re-animated. Long declamations and verbose complaints of speculative grievances, or unfelt oppressions, had rendered political discussions odious, and public spirit suspected. The people of the metropolis, immersed in luxury, and abandoned to dissipation, surveyed with apathy the course of public events; while those in the...
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