HISTORY OF VERiMONT. ^3 



allies ; declaring that he chose rather to be 

 without their assistance, than to carry on the 

 war in that savage manner.* This conduct 

 procured the applause, not only of the Ameri- 

 cans, but of all Europe. It was only among 

 some of the politicians and speakers in the 

 British ministry and parliament, that any men 

 were to be foufid sufficiently savage to call for 

 more of the Indian barbarities, and to censure 

 the conduct of a British governor, because he 

 would not put them in practice. Unfortunately 

 for the British minister and parliament, the evi- 

 dence of their sentiments, and their avowal 

 of the Indian inhumanities, will remain forever 

 In the historical accounts of the parliamentary 

 iliroceedings of that day. 



♦ Mv'rray, Vol. II, p. ^97. Smollet. Vol. V. g. 339. 



