A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hilsborough

on the present situation of affairs in America, in which the arguments in favour of the colonies are placed in a new point of view, and their rights and privileges are incontestibly demonstrated on constitutional principles supported by unanswerable arguments drawn from their ancient charters and circumstances attending their first settlement : together with a serious and impartial consideration of the consequences which must necessarily result from the exercise of coercive measures, to compel them to a submission to the late acts of Parliament : also an appendix in answer to a pamphlet intituled, The constitutional right of Great-Britain to tax the colonies