Remarks on the Letter addressed to two great men. In a letter to the author of that piece. [Four lines in Latin from Horace]

People / Organizations

• William Burke (Author)

Imprint

[Boston]: London: pinted [sic] in the year MDCCLX. Boston: re-printed and sold by B. Mecom, at the new printing-office, near the town-house, [1761]

Added name

Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767. Mecom, Benjamin, 1732-ca. 1776, printer.

Publication year

1761

ESTC No.

W21785

Grub Street ID

331575

Description

40p. ; 8⁰

Note

"Occasionally attributed to Charles Townshend but more generally assigned to William Burke and 'in part' to Edmund" (Todd).

The 'Letter addressed to two great men' is by John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury.

Argues against giving Guadeloupe to the French.

Dated 1760 by Evans, but advertised as "just published" in the Boston news-letter, Jan. 22, 1761.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B-E?