Observations on the justificative memorial of the court of London
Subtitle: Paris, printed by the royal authority.
Contributors: Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799
Series: Eighteenth century -- reel 1557, no. 25.
Publisher: Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-Street
Published: 1781
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 129
Work titles: Observations sur le Mémoire justicatif de la cour de Londres.
Notes: Concerns the Mémoire justificatif pour servir de réponse ä l'Exposé, &c. de la cour de France (London, 1779), written by Edward Gibbon at official request, which relates to the conduct of France in assisting the Americans in the war for independence.

Translation of an anonymous pamphlet entitled: Observations sur le Mémoire justificatif de la cour de Londres (Paris : Imprimerie royale, 1780), attributed to J.-M. Gérard de Rayneval in: Barbier, M. Dictionaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes. 2d ed. (Paris, 1827), s.v. 23110. Attributed to Pierre Beaumarchais by Evans, who names Peter Stephen Du Ponceau as translator. Beaumarchais published a distinct work with the same title under his own name, whose imprint reads: A Londres, ä Philadelphie, 1779.

Evans 17093; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4079

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1557, no. 25).