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A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hilsborough, on the present situation of affairs in America [electronic resource] : 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, d. 1771., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.
- United States.
- Constitutional right of the legislature of Great Britain, to tax the British colonies in America, impartially stated.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (55,[1]p. )
- Other Title:
- Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hilsborough, on the present situation of affairs in America
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : London: printed, Boston: re-printed, and sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, 1769.
- Notes:
- Sometimes attributed to George Canning, Sr.
- Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
- Cited in:
- Evans, 11310
- Sabin, 31912
- English Short Title Catalog, W13529.
- OCLC:
- 511001936
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