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.; Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844, tr.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17093.
Publisher: Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-Street.
Published: 1781
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Gibbon, Edward, -- 1737-1794.; France -- Foreign relations -- United States.; France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France.; United States -- Foreign relations -- France.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- French participation.
Work titles: Observations sur le Me moire justicatif de la cour de Londres.
Notes: Concerns the Me moire justificatif pour servir de re ponse a  l'Expose , &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 Me moire justificatif de la cour de Londres (Paris : Imprimerie royale, 1780), attributed to J.-M. Ge rard 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, a  Philadelphie, 1779.

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Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17093)