e strong conviction
and compulsion operating at once upon his mind and conscience would not
permit him to hesitate upon the part which he should take.

"The address was productive of a _protest_ signed by _nineteen_ lords,
in which they combat the civil war as unjust and impolitic in its
principles, dangerous in its contingent and fatal in its final
consequences. They censured the calling in of foreign forces to decide
domestic quarrels as disgraceful and dangerous. They sum up and conclude
the protest by declaring: 'We cannot, therefore, consent to an address
which may deceive his Majesty and the public into a belief of the
confidence of this House in the present Ministers, who have deceived
Parliament, disgraced the nation, lost the colonies, and involved us in
a civil war against our clearest interests, and upon the most
unjustifiable grounds wantonly spilling the blood of thousands of our
fellow-subjects.'"[385]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 374: Annals, etc., Vol. II., p. 211. The annalist adds in a
note, that "Of the British 226 were killed and 828 wounded; 19
commissioned officers being among the former, and 70 among the latter.
Of the Americans, 139 were killed and 314 wounded and missing. The only
provincial officers of distinction lost were General Joseph Warren, Col.
Gardner, Lieut.-Col. Parker, and Messrs. Moore and McClany."]

[Footnote 375: The royal historian, Andrews, gives the following or
English account of the battle of Bunker's Hill, together with the
circumstances which preceded and followed it:

(PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS.)

"On the 12th of June (1775), a proclamation was issued by the British
Government at Boston, offering a pardon, in the King's name, to all who
laid down their arms and returned to their homes and occupations. Two
persons only were excepted--Mr. Samuel Adams and Mr. John Hancock--whose
guilt was represented as too great and notorious to escape punishment.
All who did not accept of this offer, or who assisted, abetted, or
corresponded with them, were to be deemed guilty of treason and
rebellion, and treated accordingly. By this proclamation it was declared
that as the Courts of Judicature were shut, martial law should take
place, till a due course of justice could be re-established.

"But this act of Government was as little regarded as the preceding. To
convince the world how firmly they were determined to persevere in their
measures, and how small an impression was made by the m