Franklin by Thomas Fleming

Author:Thomas Fleming [Thomas Fleming]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO006000
ISBN: 9781612307046
Publisher: New Word City, LLC
Published: 2013-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

While the courtiers swarmed around Wedderburn in the anteroom of the Cockpit, Franklin went quietly home to Craven Street. The next day he received a letter from the government informing him that he had been dismissed as Deputy Postmaster General for America. In another twenty-four hours, another letter arrived ordering him to submit his accounts to his successor, who had already been appointed. His only consolation for the moment was the numerous friends, such as Joseph Priestley, who rushed to Craven Street to let him know that they were standing by him, no matter how reckless the ministry in their rage might become. But Franklin’s first thoughts were not of himself, or of his own safety. Instead, his emotions raced across the ocean to Governor William Franklin. After this crushing and total repudiation by the Ministry, with the obvious consent of the King, how could his son have any future in the service of the British government?

Dear Son:-—This line is just to acquaint you that I am well, and that my office of Deputy-Postmaster is taken from me. As there is no prospect of your being ever promoted to a better government, and that you hold has never defray’d its expenses, I wish you were well settled in your farm. ‘Tis an honester and more honourable because a more independent employment. You will hear from others the treatment I have receiv’d. I leave you to your own reflections and determinations upon it, and remain ever your affectionate Father.

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