The British patriot, gentle as he might be towards America, fumed against France.

This was no longer only a domestic struggle between parties, but a war with an age-long foreign enemy.

The populace resented what they called the insolence and the treachery of France and the French ambassador was pelted at Canterbury as he drove to the seacoast on his recall.

In a large sense the French alliance was not an unmixed blessing for America, since it confused the counsels of her best friends in England.
In spite of this it is probably true that from this time the mass of the English people were against further attempts to coerce America.

A change of ministry was urgently demanded.