[187-2] Ibid., p. 204, and ante, p. 186, note 1. One of Franklin's cleverest hoaxes was, "An Edict of the King of Prussia," 1773, proclaiming that the island of Britain was a colony of Prussia, having been settled by Angles and Saxons, having been protected by Prussia, having been defended by Prussia against France in the war just passed, and never having been definitely freed from Prussia's rule; and that, therefore, Great Britain should now submit to certain taxes laid by Prussia—the taxes being identical with those laid upon American colonies by Great Britain. Cf. Ency. Brit., vol. xi. p. 26.
[188-1] Thomas Pownall, The Administration of the Colonies, 3rd ed. (1766), quoted by C.A.W. Pownall, Thomas Pownall, London, 1908, p. 187.
[188-2] C.A.W. Pownall, Thomas Pownall, London, 1908, p. 187.
[188-3] Lord Milner, May 28, 1904, at Navy League Meeting, Johannesburg, in Lord Milner, The Nation and the Empire, London, 1913, p. 67.
[189-1] C.A.W. Pownall, Thomas Pownall, London, 1908, pp. 199-200.
[190-1] W. T. Stead, The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes, London, 1902, p. 78: "Letter of Cecil J. Rhodes dated August 19 and September 8, 1891, to William T, Stead."
[190-2] Ibid., p, 102.
[191-1] R. W. Emerson, English Traits, 1856, Boston reprint, 1894, p.261.
[192-1] G. R. Parkin, Imperial Federation, London, 1892, pp. 71-72.
[192-2] Woodrow Wilson, The State, 1898, Boston, rev. ed., 1911, p. 454.