ABSTRACT
After 1754, in the very middle of the war with France, the dispute between New York and Massachusetts, concerning their boundaries, was carried to such indecent lengths as to have been the occasion of riot and bloodshed. Laws made by the Congress were to be remitted to England, and, if not disapproved within three years, were to remain in full force. It was decided that application should be made for an Act of the British Parliament to establish such a single general government in America. The war waged by the French against the English was an unfair war, wherein savages were employed, and which was attended with the horrors inevitably accompanying such employment. The dispersion of these simple people was an act of violence, which was altogether alien to the general spirit of British Colonial policy. To the history of Colonial Policy, the retirement of Pitt from the ministry in 1761 was an event little short of calamitous.
