Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789
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- Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc.
- The persistence of empire, British political culture in the age of the American Revolution, Eliga H. Gould
- The American crisis
- Lord North
- John Wilkes, the scandalous father of civil liberty, Arthur H. Cash
- English radicals and the American Revolution
- Common sense ;, The crisis, Thomas Paine
- Independence, the struggle to set America free, John Ferling
- The People's answer to the court pamphlet: entitled A short review of the political state of Great Britain
- Letters on the American war, addressed to the right worshipful the mayor and corporation, to the worshipful the wardens and corporation of the Trinity-House, and to the worthy burgesses of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, by David Hartley, Esq. .
- An address to the Cocoa-tree, from a Whig [i.e. John Butler], and a consultation on the subject of a standing-army, held at the King's-Arms Tavern, on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1763
- Letters from Cicero to Catiline the second, with corrections and explanatory notes
- Four letters on important national subjects, addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shelburne, His Majesty's First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, by Josiah Tucker
- A letter to Lord George Germain, [an Englishman]
- Reasons why Lord **** should be made a public example, addressed to every free-born Englishman : to which is subjoined, an authentic extract of the preliminaries, signed the third of November, 1762, at Fontainebleau; with some comparative remarks between them and the terms offered by France last year
- Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., at the Guildhall, in Bristol, previous to the late election in that city, upon certain points relative to his parliamentary conduct
- Reflections on the domestic policy, proper to be observed on the conclusion of a peace
- The Humble address of the Right Honourable the lords spiritual and temporal, in Parliament assembled, presented to His Majesty on Wednesday the nineteenth day of November, 1760; with His Majesty's most gracious answer
- A letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shelburne, First Lord of the Treasury
- A speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. at the Guildhall, in Bristol, previous to the late election in that city, upon certain points relative to his parliamentary conduct
- A short history of the opposition during the last session of Parliament
- An Enquiry [i]nto the merits of the supposed preliminaries of peace, signed on the 3d instant
- An Essay on constitutional liberty, wherein the legal means of preventing the unconstitutional influence of the Crown are pointed out
- Thoughts on the origin and nature of government, occasioned by the late disputes between Great Britain and her American colonies : written in the year 1766
- A letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to his constituents, upon his late resignation, with the correspondences between the secretaries of war and him, relative to his return to America
- A Collection of interesting, authentic papers relative to the dispute between Great Britain and America, shewing the causes and progress of that misunderstanding from 1764 to 1775
- Thoughts on the present proceedings of the House of Commons
- Letters on the American war, addressed to the right worshipful the mayor and corporation, to the worshipful the wardens and corporation of the Trinity-House, and to the worthy burgesses of the town of Kingston upon Hull, by David Hartley, Esq; member of Parliameant [sic] for the town of Kingston upon Hull
- A candid investigation of the present prevailing topic
- The Humble address of the Right Honourable the lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament assembled, in die Martis, 18 N̊ovembris, 1760
- Four letters on important national subjects, addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shelburne, His Majesty' s first lord commissioner of the treasury, by Josiah Tucker .
- A further examination of our present American measures and of the reasons and principles on which they are founded, by the author of Considerations on the measures carrying on with respect to the British colonies in North-America [id est Matthew Robinson-Morris, Baron Rokeby]
- Serious considerations on the measures of the present administration
- Cui bono? ou Examen des avantages que les plus grandes victoires, ou les succès les plus complets, dans la guerre actuelle, pourroient procurer aux Anglois ou aux Américains; aux François, aux Espagnols ou aux Hollandois, en forme de lettres a Monsieur Necker, ci-devant directeur-général des Finances de France, par J. Tucker .
- A letter from Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne to his constitutents upon his late resignation, with the correspondences between the secretaries of war and him, relative to his return to America : also, a letter to Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne on his letter to his constituents, and a reply to Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne's letter to his constitutents
- The Opposition to the late minister vindicated, from the aspersions of a pamphlet intitled, Considerations on the present dangerous crisis
- An Unconnected Whig's address to the public, upon the present civil war, the state of public affairs, and the real cause of all the national calamities
- A Dialogue on the principles of the constitution and legal liberty, compared with despotism, applied to the American question; and the probable events of the war, with observations on some important law authorities
- Remarks on Dr. Price's Observations on the nature of civil liberty, & c.
- H. Goodricke's Aenmerkungen op Dr. Price's leer en grondbeginselen van burgerlyke vryheit en regeering, voorgegaen door en brief aen eenen vriend over de vermeende voorrechten der Americaensche volkplantingen beschouwd met opzigt tot recht en billykheit
- The Debate in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, February 27, 1771, on the bill to repeal a clause in the Act for quieting the possession of the subject, commonly called the Nullum Tempus Act
- A letter to His Grace the Duke of Grafton on the present situation of public affairs
- Observations on a late state of the nation
- Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on American taxation, April 19, 1774
- A dialogue on the actual state of Parliament
- An Authentic account of the part taken by the late Earl of Chatham in a transaction which passed in the beginning of the year 1778
- City petitions, addresses, and remonstrances, &c. &c. &c. commencing in the year M.DCC.LXIX, and including the last petition for the burial of the Right Hon'ble the Earl of Chatham in St. Paul's Cathedral, with His Majesty's answers. Also Mr. Alderman Beckford's speech to the king on the twenty-third of May, 1770
- Thoughts on the letter of Edmund Burke, Esq; to the sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America, by the Earl of Abingdon
- A Letter to His Grace the Duke of N********, on the present crisis in the affairs of Great Britain, containing reflections on a late great resignation
- An address to the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, on the present important crisis of affairs, by Catharine Macaulay
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