Excerpt from The Annual Register: Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1775

It was not without regret that we found the dissentions between this country and its colonies at length ripened into a civil war. The person to whose lot it falls to describe the transactions of domestic hostility, and the steps which lead to it, has a painful, and generally unthankful office. People can scarcely judge with temper of such an history in a century after the events. It is a perilous situation when we are to be tried by present passions. Interested as we are in this contest in common with all Englishmen, and affected as we must be in common with all men of humanity, we have never been tempted to depart from the steady course of impartiality, which we have always observed, and in which the public has hitherto supported us.

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