A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hilsborough, on the present situation of affairs in America : In which the arguments in favour of the colonies, are placed in a new point of view, and their rights and privileges are incontestibly demonstrated on constitutional principles, supported by unanswerable arguments drawn from their ancient original charters, and the circumstances attending their first settlement. Together with a serious and impartial consideration of the consequences which must necessarily result from the exercise of coercive measures, to compe them to a submission to the late acts of Parliament. Also an appendix in answer to a pamphlet intituled, The constitutional right of Great-Britain to tax the colonies. [Two lines in Latin].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793, author.

Canning, George, -1771, author.

Contributor:

Canning, George, -1771.

Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793.

Edes, Benjamin, 1732-1803, printer.

Gill, John, 1732-1785, printer.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional right of the legislature of Great Britain, to tax the British colonies in America, impartially stated.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

55 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : London: printed, Boston: re-printed, and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, 1769.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Sometimes attributed to George Canning, Sr.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

Evans, 11310

Sabin, 31912

English Short Title Catalog, W13529.

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Restricted for use by site license.