nation. All allegiance, even in name, is openly cast aside."

[* The mother of the three Lords Howe, so well known in American
history, viz: _George_, killed before Ticonderoga, in the war of
'56; _Richard_, the celebrated admiral, and the hero of the 1st
June; and Sir _William_, for several years commander-in-chief in
this country, and the 5th and last viscount; was a Mademoiselle
Kilmansegge, who was supposed to be a natural daughter of George I.
This would make these three officers and George II. first-cousins;
and George III their great-nephew _a la mode de Bretagne_.
Walpole, and various other English writers, speak openly, not only of
the connection, but of the family resemblance. Indeed, most of the
gossiping writers of that age seem to allow that Lord Howe was a
grandson of the first English sovereign of the House of Brunswick.]

"You astonish me, Bob! I did not think it could ever come to this!"

"I thought your native attachments would hardly endure as strong a
measure as this has got to be," answered the major, not a little
satisfied with the strength of feeling manifested by his father. "Yet
has this been done, sir, and done in a way that it will not be easy to
recall. Those who now resist us, resist for the sake of throwing off
all connection with England."

"Has France any agency in this, Bob?--I own it startles me, and has a
French look."

"It has driven many of the most respectable of our enemies into our
arms, sir. We have never considered you a direct enemy, though
unhappily inclining too much against us; 'but this will determine Sir