[1563] Montcalm and Wolfe, ii. 383, etc.
[1564] Orig. ed., iv. ch. 17; and final revision, ii.
[1565] There was an English version issued in London the same year. Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 1, 294-95. The tract is known to be the production of Jean François Bastide. Both editions are in Harvard College library [4376.34 and 35].
[1566] Considerations on the importance of Canada ... addressed to Pitt, London, 1759. (Harv. Coll. lib., 4376.39).
The superior gain to Great Britain from the retention, not of Canada, but of the sugar and other West India islands, is expressed in a Letter to a Great M——r on the prospect of peace, wherein the demolition of the fortifications of Louisbourg is shewn to be absurd, the importance of Canada fully refuted, the proper barrier pointed out in North America, etc., London, 1761. (Carter-Brown, iii. 1,299.)
Examination of the Commercial Principles of the late Negotiation, etc., London, 1762. (Two editions. Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,321.) Comparative importance of our acquisitions from France in America, with remarks on a pamphlet, intitled An Examination of the Commercial Principles of the late Negotiation in 1761, London, 1762. There was a second edition the same year. (Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 1,317-18.)
Burke was held to be the author of a tract, Comparative importance of the commercial principles of the late negotiation between Great Britain and France in 1761, in which the system of that negotiation with regard to our colonies and commerce is considered, London, 1762. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,319.)
[1567] Carter-Brown, iii. 1,263-1,266. The two great men were Pitt and Newcastle. The Letter was reprinted in Boston, 1760. As to its authorship, Halkett and Laing say that it “was generally attributed to William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, and is so attributed in Lord Stanhope’s History of England; but according to Chalmers’ Biographical Dictionary it was really written by John Douglas, D. D., Bishop of Salisbury.” Sabin says that it has been attributed to Junius. Cf. Bancroft, orig. ed., iv. p. 364.
[1568] There were editions in Dublin, Boston, and Philadelphia the same year. (Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 1,251-55. Cf. Franklin’s Works, Sparks’s ed., iv. p. 1.)
[1569] Cf. Bancroft, orig. ed. iv. pp. 369, 460. “After the surrender of Montreal in 1759, rumors were everywhere spread that the English would now new-model the colonies, demolish the charters, and reduce all to royal governments.” John Adams, preface to Novanglus, ed. 1819, in Works, iv. 6.