What may be the success of my efforts God only knows; but to leave my post at present, would, I know, be ruinous.

This candid state of my situation and feelings I give to your bosom, because you who have already felt and suffered so much, will be able to sympathize with me." [Illustration: Livingston Manor, Dobbs Ferry, New York _A monument erected by the Sons of the Revolution on the lawn of this historic mansion, overlooking the Hudson River, states that here, on July 6, 1781, the French allies under Rochambeau joined the American Army.

Here also, on August 14, 1781, Washington planned the Yorktown campaign which brought to a triumphant end the War for American Independence; and here, on May 6, 1783, Washington and Sir Guy Carleton arranged for the evacuation of American soil by the British.
A concluding paragraph reads: "And opposite this point, May 8, 1783, a British sloop of war fired 17 guns in honor of the American Commander-in-Chief, the first salute by Great Britain to the United States of America."_] Fortunately for the United States, the temper of the British nation on the subject of continuing the war did not accord with that of its sovereign.

That war, into which the people had entered with at least as much eagerness as the minister, had become almost universally unpopular.
{February 27.} {March 4.} Motions against the measures of administration respecting America were repeated by the opposition; and, on every experiment, the strength of the minority increased.

At length, on the 27th of February, General Conway moved in the house of commons, "that it is the opinion of this house that a farther prosecution of offensive war against America would, under present circumstances, be the means of weakening the efforts of this country against her European enemies, and tend to increase the mutual enmity so fatal to the interests both of Great Britain and America." The whole force of administration was exerted to get rid of this resolution, but was exerted in vain; and it was carried.