A Letter to the Gentlemen Of The Committee of London Merchants, Trading to North America
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1766 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This essay inverts the Grenville administration’s arguments, asserting that a true understanding of the Atlantic trade proves that a reduction of income supporting the circulation of goods must reduce commerce overall. This was in addition to the fact that “as Liberty is the grand Incentive to Industry and Commerce…a Decay of both would ensue the Loss of it.” The writer then cautions that nullification of colonial charters might well eventuate in the loss of English liberty at home.
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