Objections to the taxation of our American Colonies briefly considered (Lond., 1765).
See also Charles Thomson's letter to Cook, Laurence & Co., Nov. 9, 1765, in N. Y. Hist. Society Coll. (1878, p. 7).
[193] The first is a Letter from a merchant in London to his nephew in No. America relative to the present posture of affairs in the Colonies (Lond., 1766), and the last A series of answers to certain popular objections against separating from the rebellious colonies and discarding them entirely: being the concluding tract of the Dean of Gloucester on the subject of American affairs (Gloucester, 1776). The dean's plan of separation is best unfolded, however, in his Humble Address and Ernest appeal (London, 1775; 3rd ed., corrected, 1776). The views of Tucker are given synoptically by Smyth (Lectures, ii. 392), Lecky (iii. 421), Hildreth (iii. 58). If Haven's list is correct, only two of Tucker's tracts were reprinted in the colonies. Cf. Menzies Catal., no. 1,997. The letters of Franklin and Wm. S. Johnson reflect opinions in England at this time.
[194] Published in London in 1767, two editions; Boston, 1767; also in Almon's Tracts, vol. iii. Cf. Sabin, iv. nos. 15,202-3; Brinley, iii. p. 185; Carter-Brown, iii., no. 1,498. 18 It is sometimes attributed to C. Jenkinson. The published tracts of 1766 are enumerated in Carter-Brown and Haven under 1766; in Cooke, 1,336, 1,929, 1,934; in Brinley, i. p. 21; ii. p. 154; and in Sabin, under the authors' names.
During 1767 also there was something of a flurry in the religious part of the community induced by a sermon (London, 1767) which the Bishop of Landaff had preached before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, in Feb., in which he had styled the Americans "infidels and barbarians." William Livingston, of New York, addressed a Letter to the Bishop (London, 1768), and Charles Chauncy, of Boston, published a Letter to a friend (Boston, 1767), in which the bishop was taken to task, while an anonymous friend undertook a Vindication of the Bishop (New York, 1768). Cf. Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 1,585, 1,629, 1,630.
The other tracts of 1767 are not numerous. Cf. Carter-Brown, and Haven under 1767.
[195] Sabin, xiv. 61,646.
[196] Rec. Com. Rept., xvi. p. 22.
[197] Following a copy in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library.
[198] Franklin (Sparks), vii. 371, 373, 376, 378, 387; (Bigelow), i. 551, 556. The resolutions were printed in the public prints, in Ames's Almanac (1768), etc.