A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hillsborough, on the present situation of affairs in America [microform] : 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 ... together with a serious and impartial consideration of the consequences which must necessarily result from the exercise of coercive measures, to compel 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.
Downshire, Wills Hill,Marquis of,1718-1793.
Canning, George,-1771.
[Boston] : London, printed, Boston, re-printed and sold by Edes and Gill ...,
1769.
Sometimes attributed to George Canning, Sr., who was actually author of another anonymous pamphlet with title somewhat similar: "Letter to the Right Hon. Wills, Earl of Hilsborough on the connection between Great Britain and her American colonies". London, 1768. Cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue and Boston athenaeum Catalogue.
Microfiche.
Constitutional right of the legislature of Great Britain to tax the British colonies.