Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805 edition. Excerpt: ...should oblige them to seek the further aid of foreigners. But, as a writer observed, " the solitary court " of London was obliged to suppress her indig" nation." Neither her resentment, chagrin, or address, could prevent a measure which Great Britain considered as particularly injurious to herself. The British minister expostulated warmly with the court of Petersburgh, on the constant attention and regard hitherto shewn on every occasion, to the flag and commerce of Russia, by Great Britain. He declared there was a continuance of the same disposition and conduct in his court, and reminded the empress of the reciprocal ties of friendship, and the commercial interests, by which the two nations were mutually bound. The confederacy too formidable for opposition in their present situation, an equivocal, rather than an expsicit reply to the declaration of the empress, was sent by the court of Great Britain to the British envoy resident at Petersburgh, dated April the twenty-third, one thousand seven hundred and eighty. While this indecisive mode of conduct was observed by the court of Great Britain, the / other European powers had not only readily Chap. m. agreed to the proposition for an armed neutral-i?go ity, but appeared generally pre-disposed to a friendly intercourse with America, if not une-/ quivocally to support her claim to indepen-dence. A general state of danger from foreign com-binations seemed to threaten the empire of Great Britain, with a convulsion in almost all its parts; at the same time, discontent and dis-satisfaction, particularly in Ireland, seemed to be on the point of rising to an alarming height, and fast approaching to a crisis. It was observed by one of their own writers, that " it was not to...
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