INTRODUCTION xxiii 



The full title \n\ge of the second edition of the 

 work is interesting and furnishes much food for 

 reflection as to what might have happened if 

 Great Britain had followed the sage and far- 

 seeing advice of the author. It reads : 



" AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 



THE 



INTEREST AND GLORY 



OF 



GREAT BRITAIN 



A NEW EDITION 



To which is added, 



A copious APPENDIX, containing two additional Letters to the 

 Legislature; a Letter to EDMUND BURKE, Esq.; controverting his 

 Principles of American Government 



AND 



A POSTSCRIPT, containing new Arguments on the Subject; A 

 Draught for a Bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for restoring 

 Peace and Harmony between Great Britain and British America, and for 

 perpetuating the same: 



Together with 



The essential Materials for a proposed Grand British LEAGUE and 

 CONFEDERACY, to be entered into by Great Britain and all the States 

 of British America. 



The whole of which shews, beyond Denial or Doubt, that by granting 

 the Colonists an unrestrained civil Freedom and Lcyidative Independence, 

 we may most effectually secure their future Commercial Dependence upon, 

 and consequently shall best promote the Interest and support the Glory 

 of, Great Britain. 



It i.s not to be hoped, in the corrupt State of human Nature, that any 

 Nation will be subject to another, any longer than it find its own Account 

 in it, and cannot help itself 



No Creatures suck the Teats of their Dams longer than they can draw 

 Milk from thence, or can providf thciuHelves with better Food; nor will 



