The conduct of the late ministry
Subtitle: or, A memorial; containing a summary of facts with their vouchers, in answer to the Observations, sent by the English ministry, to the courts of Europe.  Wherein (among many curious and interesting pieces, which may serve as authentic memoirs towards a history of the present quarrel between Great-Britain and France) several papers are to be seen at full length; extracts of which lie now, under the consideration of P--t.
Contributors: Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, 1721-1765.; Napier, Robert, d. 1766.
Publisher: Printed for W. Bizet
Published: 1757
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Braddock's Campaign, 1755; United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Sources; Ohio River Valley -- History -- Sources
Notes: A translation of the "Mémoire contenant le précis des faits ..." published by the French government, Paris, 1756, and transmitted to the courts of Europe, for the purpose of showing the aggressions of the British. It includes documents seized from the British at Fort Necessity and at Braddock's defeat.
"Major Washington's journal [March 31-June 27, 1754]": p. 117-161.
"Letter from M. Robert Napier, written to M. Braddock, by order of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland [dated November 25, 1754]": p. 188-194.  It was this letter that called forth the ironical defense of the Duke of Cumberland, published, London, 1756, under title: Reasons humbly offered, to prove, that the letter printed at the end of the French Memorial of justification, is a French forgery and falsly ascribed to His R--l H--ss.