[346] “Should the morals of the English be perverted by luxury, should they lose their colonies by restraining them, &c., they will be enslaved, they will become insignificant and contemptible; and Europe will not be able to show the world one nation in which she can pride herself.”—Motto on title-page of Price’s second tract on Civil Liberty, from Raynal, Histoire Philosophique et Politique, Liv. XIX.
[347] Price, Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, App., pp. 103-105. Turgot, Œuvres, éd. Daire, Tom. II. p. 810.
[348] Memoires, Vol. I. p. 344.
[349] Ibid., p. 347. See also Letter to Sir Horace Mann, October 6, 1754: Letters, ed. Cunningham, Vol. II. p. 398.
[350] Letters, ed. Cunningham, Vol. VI. p. 57.
[351] Journal of the Reign of George III. from 1771 to 1783, ed. Doran, Vol. I. p. 366.
[352] Ibid., p. 491. See Speech of Earl of Sandwich in the House of Lords, March 15, 1775: Hansard’s Parliamentary History, Vol. XVIII. col. 446.
[353] Letters, ed. Cunningham, Vol. VI. p. 279.
[354] Letters, ed. Cunningham, Vol. VI. p. 450.
[355] Ibid., Vol. VII. pp. 12, 13.