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Right, Wrong, and Reasonable

To the PRINTER of the GAZETTEER. The East India contest, that necessarily took up so much of your paper, being now abated, I hope you will find room for the following answer to the paper intitled, Right, Wrong, and Reasonable, according to American Ideas, inserted in the Gazetteers of March 5, and 9. I flatter…

Reply to Coffee-House Orators

To the PRINTER of the LONDON CHRONICLE. Cinque gran nemici da pace, habitano con esso noi; civa l’avaritia, l’ambitione, l’invidia, l’ira, & la superbia: se detti inimici si mandassero in esilio, regenerebbe senza dubio tra noi pace perpetua. PETRARCH. Athens had her orators. They did her sometimes a great deal of good, at other times…

The Misrepresentation of America

To the PRINTER of the LONDON CHRONICLE. SIR, As the bare letter of a Governor of one of our provinces, accusing his People of rebellious intentions, is by many here thought sufficient ground for inflicting penalties on such province, unheard, without farther evidence, and without knowing what it may have to say in its justification:…

On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor

For the LONDON CHRONICLE. To Messieurs the PUBLIC and CO. I am one of that class of people that feeds you all, and at present is abus’d by you all; — in short I am a Farmer. By your News-papers we are told, that God had sent a very short harvest to some other countries…

Contempt for the Thames

To the Printer of the Public Advertiser. SIR, I am an American Gentleman, and as yet not entirely acquainted with the Customs of my dear Mother Country, and therefore apply to the Public for Information what to do as a Redress of a Grievance I lately met with. Being fond of the Water, I took…