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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
rown in the thirteen colonies, under the additional disadvantage of making it to the French, rather than to the Americans themselves. Weymouth to Grantham, 16 March, 1779. If independence was to be conceded to the new states, Lord Wey- Chap. VIII.} 1779. mouth held that it must be conceded directly to congress, that it might be made the basis of all the advantages to Great Britain which so desirable an object might seem to be worth. Weymouth to Grantham, 16 March, 1779, and Ibid., 4 May, 1779. Uncontrolled by entangling connections, England reserved to itself complete freedom in establishing its relations with America, whether as dependencies or as states. This policy was so founded in wisdom, that it continued to be the rule of Great Britain for a little more than eighty years. Meantime Vergennes, on the twelfth of February, Feb. 12. forwarded the draft of a convention which yielded to Spain all that she required, except that its fourth article maintained the independenc