Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ty-second of February, 1782, aresolution was introduced into the House ofCommons to put an end to the American warand was supported by the leaders of the Whigparty. It was defeated by a majority of one,but on the twenty-seventh of February asimilar resolution was introduced and wascarried by a majority of nineteen. England Gives Up the Struggle. On the twentieth of March Lord Northand his colleagues were forced to relinquishtheir offices, and a new ministry was formedunder the Marquis of Rockingham. SirHenry Clinton was removed from his com-mand in America, and was succeeded by SirGuy Carleton, whose humane conduct ofthe war while governor of Canada we haverelated. Carleton arrived in New York inMay, 1782, with full powers to open nego-tiations for peace. He at once put a stop tothe savage warfare of the Tories and Indianson the borders of western New York, andopened a correspondence with Washingtonproposing a cessation of hostilities until adefinite treaty of peace could be arranged-
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CAPTAIN HUDDY LKD FROM PRISON TO BE HANGEP 477 47^ THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Five commissioners were appointed byCongress to conclude a peace with GreatBritain. They were John Adams, BenjaminFranklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, whohad just been released from the tower ofLondon, where he had been kept a prisoner)for about a year, and Thomas Jefferson. Mr.Jefferson was unable to leave America. Fivecommissioners were appointed by GreatBritain to treat with certain coloniesnamed in their instructions. A Treaty Formed. The commissioners from the two countriesmet at Paris, but the American commis-sioners refused to open negotiations exceptin the name of the United States ofAmerica. This right was acknowledgedby Great Britain, and on the thirtieth ofNovember, 1782, a preliminary treaty wassigned, which was ratified by Congress inApril, 1783. This treaty could not be finalbecause by the terms of the alliance betweenthe United States and France neither partycould make a separate treaty of peace w

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