194 APPENDIX TO BRITISH COUNTER CASE. 



[In the debate in the Commons on the address the Honourable 

 Philip Yorke said: ] 



.... Nothing, then, remained to be done but to obtain peace ; not 

 by making war, for that was prohibited, but by making concessions; 

 and no concession was likely to be deemed sufficient, but the opening 

 of a treaty with America, upon the footing of a free and independent 

 State. But at the time that His Majesty, for the sake of peace, and 

 for the sake of relieving this country from the heavy burthens under 

 which it labours, has made so great a dismemberment of the British 

 Empire, he consoles himself with a well-grounded hope, that other 

 motives than those of dependency, may tend to connect the two coun- 

 tries in a bond of permanent union. It is to be hoped, that a people 

 speaking the same language, educated in the same religion, of the 

 same habits, and of the same manners, may prefer a commercial con- 

 nection with this country; and that Great Britain may still enjoy a 

 larger share of the American trade than any other nation in Europe, 

 upon fair and liberal principles of commerce. 



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Mr. Barikes .... 



In obtaining this, the hon. gentleman was glad, that no sacrifice 

 would be made in granting the independence of America. By grant- 

 ing the independence of America, Great Britain would give up noth- 

 ing. America had long been independent, and it was not possible for 

 us to make her more so. But although so great a dismemberment 

 was made, he trusted the connection between Great Britain and 

 America would not be at an end. America talked the same language, 

 and had her interest too strongly interwoven with that of Great 

 Britain, not to make them for ever one and the same people, and give 

 to her the greatest part of her commerce. 



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Mr. Fox said, . . . 



There were some expressions in the speech, .... much as he disliked 

 these expressions, he was as much pleased with those, in which His 

 Majesty indulges the philosophic speculation of prospects of future 

 connection with America, from similarity of language, manners, re- 

 ligion, and laws : . . . . surely his right hon. friend did not mean to 

 defraud his master of the merit of conciliating the hearts of the 

 Americans, and binding them to this country by expressions of grace 

 and kindness. . . . 



[On the 27th January, 1783, the provisional articles with America 

 were presented to Parliament, and on the 17th February the Earl of 

 Pembroke in the House of Lords moved an address to the King: ] 



" .... To express in the most grateful manner to His Majesty our 

 satisfaction, that His Majesty has. in consequence of the powers 

 entrusted to him, laid the foundation by the provisional Articles with 

 the States of North America, for a treaty of peace, which, we trust, 

 will insure perfect reconciliation and friendship between both coun- 

 tries. . . ." 



The Earl of Carlisle said, . 



In the advancement of the negociation. if it had been urged on the 

 part of the United States, that the retaining large tracts of country 

 l)ehind them to plant with persons of different political principles, 

 might be little better than laying the foundation of new war and new 



