On this day 250 years ago in London Lord Camden wrote to the Earl of Chatham:

The ministry are proceeding with the most mischievous expedition, to plunge the nation irrecoverably into a civil war, which, indeed, I consider as commenced by the joint address; and the bill to cut off the four New England colonies from the fishery is to be brought on to-day. I am grieved to observe, that the landed interest is almost altogether anti-American, though the common people hold the war in abhorrence, and the merchants and tradesmen, for obvious reasons, are likewise against it. Nevertheless, my opinion of the justice and the success of it is precisely the same, and does not yield to the majority within doors, or the powerful assent without.

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