Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of Independence

by George McKinnon Wrong

CHAPTER III.

For the state of opinion in England, the contemporary Annual Register, and the writings and speeches of men of the time like Burke, Fox, Horace Walpole, and Dr. Samuel Johnson. The King's attitude is found in Donne, Correspondence of George III with Lord North, 1768-83, 2 vols. (1867). Stirling, Coke of Norfolk and his Friends, 2 vols. (1908), gives the outlook of a Whig magnate; Fitzmaurice, Life of William, Earl of Shelburne, 2 vols. (1912), the Whig policy. Curwen's Journals and Letters, 1775-84 (1842), show us a Loyalist exile in England. Hazelton's The Declaration of Independence, its History (1906), is an elaborate study.