[Franklin, Benjamin]: [Douglass, John]: [Townshend, Charles]: [French and Indian War]:

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THE INTEREST OF GREAT BRITAIN CONSIDERED, WITH REGARD TO HER COLONIES, AND THE ACQUISITIONS OF CANADA AND GUADALOUPE…THE SECOND EDITION. [bound with:] A LETTER ADDRESSED TO TWO GREAT MEN, ON THE ... An attractive volume collecting three important pamphlets essential to the end of the French and Indian War. The primary question was what concessions, if any, should be given to France in the peace, and particularly the proposition that the British must choose to retain either Canada or the rich sugar island of Guadeloupe. The most notable of the three, bound first here, was authored by Benjamin Franklin while in London and comprises a powerful argument for the significance of Canada as a British colony. While Parliament was leaning towards keeping Guadeloupe, citing its rich trade in luxuries such as sugar, coffee, and cotton, Franklin argued for Canada's importance as a colony which could develop into a bountiful agricultural producer and its longevity as a valuable market for Britain to exploit, as well as a base for defending other North American colonies against future French interference.These three pamphlets form a direct sequence, beginning the Letter Addressed to Two Great Men. This is the first edition, second issue of that work, printed the same year as the first, with additional text and an erratum after "Finis." "It relates chiefly to affairs in America, and the aggressions of the French. The 'Two Great Men' were William Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle." - Sabin. Auth

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