ABSTRACT
American Government’s bills of exception were merely intended to secure a wider and more authoritative decision. The Budget of 1764, indeed, seems to have been regarded by George Grenville with special pride and the Government pamphleteering on its behalf to bear plain marks of Grenville’s own hand. One of the financial expedients adopted by Grenville in 1764 and complacently praised in Government pamphlets of 1765, despite the strong objections raised in America, was the Act “for granting certain duties on goods in the British colonies for the support of government. If Grenville and his colleagues had refrained from pressing their advantage against the humbled King, it is possible that their Administration might have had a longer life. Less prejudiced observers than the Grenville-Temple pamphleteers also considered that the nearer the Parliamentary Session drew; the more desperate would grow the plight of the new Ministers.
