Identifier: magazineofamericv18stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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aid the secretaries had considered Iif pen and ink. The next morning, October 30th, penbrought to me, and taken away again the moment I had fin-• on Mr. Nutt for fifty guineas. The bill was paid. h of November the tidings reached London of the surrender li . Lord Germain was the first to read the dispatch. Lord retary of State, being present, the two entered a ) to save time, and drove to the house of Lord Stormont. them in the vehicle, and the three drove rapidly to the resi- North. Tin- prune minister received the news, said Ger- lld have taken a musket ball in the breast. He threw lb- paced wildly up and down the room in the greatest laiming, It 1 .ill over! it is al HENRY LAURENS IN THE LONDON TOWER II bled two days later. The speech of the king was confused ; but he stillinsisted on prosecuting the war. In the debates that followed, Fox,Burke, Sheridan, the youthful William Pitt, and others assailed the min-istry and the war as no ministry had ever before or has ever since been
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LORD STORMONT. \From copy of an engraving of tke original painting at Caenw:od.~\ assailed. The city of London entreated the king to end hostilities ; andpublic meetings in every part of the kingdom expressed the same wish.In the House, resolutions offered for the discontinuance of the war weredefeated by a small majority. Mr. Laurens soon became aware of the anxiety of the ministry to getrid of him ; but the dilemma was in the difference of opinion as to the HENR> I U RENS IN iHE LONDON TOWER Laurens would not accept of a pardon; and Lord Hills-, edition could not be changed from a state pris-■ war without the intervention of a pardon, and only.r could an exchange be negotiated. Edmund Burke•ucc to abate the severity of treatment and secure theurens. The opposition, in the sharpest of language,>urse of the administration in regard to Mr. Laurens.length softened sufficiently to make inquiries concern-About the same time came news across the water that theurens was the custod

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