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Show 144 id: 31]- CANADAPAMPHLET. ) O- 145 ‘l it is not merely from the beauty, the force and perlpir‘uity (,‘rl' expreflion, or the general elegance of manner conlpicuous in both prnnphlets, that my pleuliire chiefly mites; v it is rather from this, that Ihave lived to fee liib~ jeéts of thegreatei't importance to this nation pub: mar/c, on tnnt Letter. T/Je Iiztcrq/Z ofGreat Britain cozfldrrrdawitb regard to her Colonist, and the Acgufilzom of Canada and Guadaloupe 9". ' Have perufed with no {mall pleafure the Letter I addtelfed to Two Great Men, and the Ra'‘ [In the year 1760, upon the profpeét of a peace with France, the late Earl of Bath addrefl'ed a Letter to team great men, (Nlr. Pitt and the Duke of Newcalile,) on the terms necefl'ary to be infilied upon in the negotiation. He preferred the acquifition of Canada, to acquifitions in the Well Indies.-In the fame year there appeared Re- ~-&~.g k t‘..‘._ , - rww'rfl'V‘W" :a l" l. ll ‘3 mark: on the letter addrelred to two great men, containingoppofite opinions on this and other fubje&s.-At this moment a philofopher fiepped into the controverfy, and wrote a pamphlet entitled, 77M Inteny? of Great Britain cryia'erea', quit/2 regard t0 lye-r Calwizex, Etc. The arguments he ufed, appear to have carried weight With them at the courts of London and Paris, forCanada was kept by the peace. - The Editor thinks it neceiiary to add the following further explanations.-The above piece (which firlt came to hishands 1n the ihape of a pamphlet, printed for Becket 1761, 2d edit.) has none licly diibiiiied without pzirty views, or party heat, with decency and politenefs, and with no other warmth than what a zeal for the honour and hap- pinefs of our king and country may inlpire ,--;1nd this by writers whofe underl'tanding (however they may difit‘er from each other) appears not unequal to their candour and the uprightnefs of their intennon. But, as great abilities have not always the belt information, there are, I apprehend, in the Remarks, fome opinions not well founded, and fomc mif'takes of {0 important a nature, as to render a of the eight fubdivifions it is now thrown into, marked out by the few obfcrvations on them neceflilry for the better author. He conceived however that they might be ufeful, and has taken information of the public. The author of the Letter, who mutt be every the liberty of making them, but guards it with this apology.-The better to fuit his purpofe, the divifion of the paragraphs, &c. and the Italics of the original, are not accurately adhered to. It was im oliible for him however to alter one word in the fenfe, fiyle, or di ofition, of his author: 7721‘: was a liberty for which he could ma e no apology. . way befi: able to fupport his own fentiments, will, I hope, excufe me, if I fleem ofl-icioufly to interfere; when he confiders, that the fpirit of patriotifm, In the original, the author has added his obfiervations concerning like other qualities good and bad, is catching ; and the Increafe of mankind, peopling of countries, &c. (printed in the beginning of this work) ; and introduced it with the following note. " In confirmation of the writer's opinion concerning population, " manufaétures, &c. he has thought it not amifs to add an extract " from a piece written {ome years fince in America, where the facts has made us defpair of feeing the {abject farther " mull: be well known, on which the reafonings are founded. It and candid Remarker, too, Who mutt have been " is intitled, Obfewatiom, &c." With refpeé‘t to the arguments ufed by the authors of the Letter, and of the Remark, it is ufelefs to repeat them here. As far as mifled himfelf before he employed his {kill and addrefs to miflead others ; will certainly, fince he they are necefl'ary for the underflanding of Dr. Franklin, they are so be collefled from his own work. E.] declares merit that his long filence fince the Remarks appeared difcudcd by his maf'terly hand. The ingenious |