Larned's history of the world : or, seventy centuries of the life of mankind . ssor, George Grenville, andGrenville carried the principles of the new Tory-ism into practice with no hesitating hand. Hisopening move was an attempt to make criticismof the kings speeches to parliament a punishableoffense. One John Wilkes, a member of parlia-ment, and proprietor and conductor of a journalentitled The North Briton, presumed to publishsuch a criticism, and was pursued for years withprosecutions and persecutions that created themost serious political issue of the time. He wasnot a reputable man; but h
Larned's history of the world : or, seventy centuries of the life of mankind . ssor, George Grenville, andGrenville carried the principles of the new Tory-ism into practice with no hesitating hand. Hisopening move was an attempt to make criticismof the kings speeches to parliament a punishableoffense. One John Wilkes, a member of parlia-ment, and proprietor and conductor of a journalentitled The North Briton, presumed to publishsuch a criticism, and was pursued for years withprosecutions and persecutions that created themost serious political issue of the time. He wasnot a reputable man; but he was raised to thedistinction of a popular hero by the questions offreedom for opinion and speech that were in-volved in his case. A great constituency inLondon elected him to parliament again andagain, and the house of commons, more servilethan the courts of law, refused to admit him tohis seat. This went on till public feeling hadbeen excited to a dangerous heat, and, in the end,king, ministers and parliament had to bow to thewill of the constituency that elected Patrick Henry Addressing Virginia Assembly From the painting by Peter F. Rothermel (1817-1895), now in the Academy at Philadelphia George III. and the American Colonies 989 The king and the kings friends had donebadly in their undertakings at home; they didworse in the colonies, so far as ultimate conse-quences were concerned. Naturally their ideas coionia?S Sof colonial policy were the ideas of a paternal p°Iicygovernment, administered with a stern face, aheavy hand and an unspared rod. Grenville,acting with Charles Townshend, president of theboard of trade, began the realizing of those ideas,in 1763, with a proposal to parliament thattwenty regiments should be kept in America, atthe cost of the colonies after the first year. Thenext step was a measure authorizing the employ-ment of the navy in the service of the custom-house, to enforce the acts of trade. The thirdwas a revival, with some amendment, of a
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