A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 90
grabbed for offering communications commercial markets and watch.
From this point of view India became, after the loss of the American
colonies, the dominant factor in British external policy. The monetary one
value of India to the English exceeded far that of theirs other
foreign possessions put together. The servants of the Society of East India
the enormous fortunes and you often in some years and the influence of this
wealth on British politics became very apparent in the last quarter
of the century. It put on the price of parliamentary administrative pocket-districts,
and so it postponed reform; it trained commercial men to force their way
in God's House from the side of land magnates and the more youth
Pitt doubled his/her numbers in his/her efforts to win the political support of
the wealthy classes; and it finally struck knowingly, or
unconsciously the perspectives of men of the affairs of the empire and the
policy to be pursued for serving them.
The mean-century that followed the American War of the independence was
not, indeed, sterile of it results in the other directions that that pointed out
from the Society of East India. Canada was saved by the seductions of
The American independence from a wise recognition of his/her established customs
and religion (1774), and you/he/she was strengthened by the influx of United
Loyalists that would not arch the knee to the republican separatism reign.
Provision was constituted the government of these some that that discordant
elements dividing Canada in the two provinces, one primarily
French, the other English, and giving every a legislature for the
expressing of his/her damages (1791). Also, therefore the Seven impulse
The War of years escaped the War of the independence in the other quarters of the
globe. Official naval, released from war-as operations were expeditious
you explore the Pacific; and, among them, Captain James Cook observed, the
coasts of Australia and the New Zelanda (1770). The enthusiastic naturalist
of the consignment, Joseph Banks, persistently sang the encomiums of