The English Bodley family . nce andAmerica had just formed an alliance, and the English lords whowere opposed to the kings policy toward America were for turninground, acknowledging the independence of the United States, andso meeting France single-handed. So, on the 7th of April, 1778, theDuke of Richmond moved in the House of Lords that all troopsshould be removed from America and a peace concluded, but asthere could be no peace without a recognition of the independence of the states, that would followas a matter of course. LordChatham was very ill, but he wasdetermined to go down and op-pos
The English Bodley family . nce andAmerica had just formed an alliance, and the English lords whowere opposed to the kings policy toward America were for turninground, acknowledging the independence of the United States, andso meeting France single-handed. So, on the 7th of April, 1778, theDuke of Richmond moved in the House of Lords that all troopsshould be removed from America and a peace concluded, but asthere could be no peace without a recognition of the independence of the states, that would followas a matter of course. LordChatham was very ill, but he wasdetermined to go down and op-pose the motion, for much as hewanted peace with America, hethought it cowardly to get itin this way. He had foughtFrance all his days, and he wouldnot have England play a timidpart now. So he was half car-) ried to the House, and made a(/ o-reat speech, and asked in itWa^^J if the country which seventeenWilliam Pitt, Lord Chatham. ycars bcforc was the terror of the world had stooped so low now as to tell its old enemy: * Take.
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