. The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war : with an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies . ves the minifter, at laft, a power of receiving or rejecting fuch as he fhallthink proper. On the whole, they concluded. That the propofition was held upto the world, to deceive it into a belief, that there was nothing in difpuie but theTnode of levying taxes; that parliament having now been fo kind as to giveup that, the colonies muft be unreafonable in the high
. The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war : with an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies . ves the minifter, at laft, a power of receiving or rejecting fuch as he fhallthink proper. On the whole, they concluded. That the propofition was held upto the world, to deceive it into a belief, that there was nothing in difpuie but theTnode of levying taxes; that parliament having now been fo kind as to giveup that, the colonies muft be unreafonable in the highett degree, if not perJtdlyfetisfied: they therefore unanimoufly agreed in rejeding it. About this time the colony of Georgia joined the general confederacy, whichhenceforth took the name of the TLirteen United Colonies ; and the Con-grefs, in compliance with the wifties of the body of the people, and at the par-ticular application of the New England provinces, appointed George Walhing-ton, efq; a gentleman of affluent fortune in Virginia, and whom we have hadoccafion to mention as a provincial officer of fome reputation early in the latewar, to be General and Commander in Chief of all their forces. They alfo ap-pointed ^. THE HISTORY OF AMERICA. pointed Artemus Ward, Charles Lee, Philip Schuyler, and Ifrael Putnam, be major-generals, and Horatio Gates, dq; to be adjutant-general. Of thefecommanders, Lee and Gates were Englifh officers, who had ferved in the lafi: warwith ditlinftion, but who from difguft or other caules had been led to jom therebels. Tiie Congrefs, at the fame time that they made thefe appointments, alfofixed and affigned the pay of both officers and foldiers; the latter of whom, as inall civil dilputes, were much better provided for than thofe on any regular efta-biifliiTient. The generals Wafliington and Lee arrived at the camp before Bofton in themonth of July. Thty were treated with the higheft honours in every placethrough which they palled: the
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