Mr. Chronicle, We Britons are a nation of statesmen and politicians; we are privy councellors by birthright; and therefore take it much amiss when we are told by some of your correspondents, `that it is not proper to expose to public view the many good reasons there are for restoring Canada,’ (if we reduce it.)…
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Those Who Would Have Peace with France
A Description of Those, Who, at Any Rate, Would Have a Peace with France The two prevailing motives among us, which strongly bias great numbers of people, at this time, to wish for a peace with France, let the terms be ever so dishonourable, ever so disadvantageous, or likely to prove of ever so short…
A Defense of the Americans
A New Englandman to the Printer of the London Chronicle: A Defense of the Americans To the Printer of the CHRONICLE. SIR, While the public attention is so much turned towards America, every letter from thence that promises new information, is pretty generally read; it seems therefore the more necessary that care should be taken…
Happiness in this Life
To Hugh Roberts Dear Friend, London, Sept. 16. 1758 Your kind Letter of June 1. gave me great Pleasure. I thank you for the Concern you express about my Health, which at present seems tolerably confirm’d by my late Journeys into different Parts of the Kingdom, that have been highly entertaining as well as useful…
Faith, Hope, and Charity
To Jane Mecom Dear Sister London Sept 16 1758 I received your Favour of June 17. I wonder you have had no Letter from me since my being in England. I have wrote you at least two and I think a third before this; And, what was next to waiting on you in Person, sent…