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Mr. Glover told me that before the termination of
Hostilities with America he had presented a Memorial
to Lord North, stating the impracticability of
conquering America & that as the Independence of
that Country must be established -- he offered a
Plan for his Lordship's Consideration by which
he might repay this Country for the immense
Sums expended in the prosecutingion of the War --
reestablish the Credit of the Nation & ruin
France -- this plan was to withdraw the
whole force from America at once, as there were
Transports sufficient & ready & employ the whole
Army in conquering the French West India Islands
which he proved to the Minister would be an easy
Task, as they were unprovided against so powerful
an Attack -- Mr. Glover lamented that he could
not induce Lord North to pursue Measures
that would have been so advantageous to the
Country & so honorably to himself
---[1]
      1784[2]

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Notes


 1. Probably JD for John Dickenson.
 2. The signature has been torn away, but was likely that of John Dickenson (cf. HAM/1/2/40).

Normalised Text


Mr. Glover told me that before the termination of
Hostilities with America he had presented a Memorial
to Lord North, stating the impracticability of
conquering America & that as the Independence of
that Country must be established -- he offered a
Plan for his Lordship's Consideration by which
he might repay this Country for the immense
Sums expended in the prosecution of the War --
reestablish the Credit of the Nation & ruin
France -- this plan was to withdraw the
whole force from America at once, as there were
Transports sufficient & ready & employ the whole
Army in conquering the French West India Islands
which he proved to the Minister would be an easy
Task, as they were unprovided against so powerful
an Attack -- Mr. Glover lamented that he could
not induce Lord North to pursue Measures
that would have been so advantageous to the
Country & so honourably to himself
---
     

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 1. Probably JD for John Dickenson.
 2. The signature has been torn away, but was likely that of John Dickenson (cf. HAM/1/2/40).

Metadata

Library References

Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers

Item title: Note by John Dickenson

Shelfmark: HAM/1/13/20

Correspondence Details

Sender: John Dickenson

Place sent: unknown

Addressee:

Place received: unknown

Date sent: 1784

Letter Description

Summary: Note from John Dickenson. The signature has been torn off the document, which relates to the American War of Independence. Before the end of hostilities with America, Mr Glover had presented a memorandum to Lord North on the 'impracticality of conquering america & that as the independence of that must be established – he offered a plan for his Lordship's consideration by which he might repay this Country for the immense sums expended' on the war. The sheet continues with details of the plan.
   

Length: 1 sheet, 150 words

Transliteration Information

Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' (Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2019-2023).

All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. Words split across two lines may have a hyphen on the first, the second or both fragments (reco-|ver, imperfect|-ly, satisfacti-|-on); or a double hyphen (pur=|port, dan|=ger, qua=|=litys); or none (respect|ing). Any point in abbreviations with superscripted letter(s) is placed last, regardless of relative left-right orientation in the original. Thus, Mrs. or Mrs may occur, but M.rs or Mr.s do not.

Acknowledgements: Transcription and XML version created as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1.

Transliterator: Tino Oudesluijs, editorial team (completed 24 June 2020)

Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library

Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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Revision date: 2 November 2021

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