Burke, William, 1730-1798. Remarks on the Letter address'd to two great men. In a Letter to the author of that piece.

"Occasionally attributed to Charles Townshend but more generally assigned to William Burke and 'in part' to Edmund" (Todd).

The 'Letter addressed to two great men' is by John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury.

The titlepage is a cancel.

Historical Society copy Af.348.2: Benjamin Franklin's copy; bound with Douglas, Letter, q.v.; item 2 in volume. Copious marginalia, some in red ink, in Benjamin Franklin’s hand, cropped; attribution in another hand on title: by William Burke, cousin of Edmund and afterwards Army Paymaster in Bengal, and note: Dr. Franklin was alarmed by this and wrote a pamphlet entitled The Interest of Gr. Britain considered. &c to which William Duane added: that is the Canada pamphlet in his works. Volum IV. p. 39 [i.e., The Works of Benjamin Franklin (1809), ed. William Duane].

Note: The interest of Great Britain considered, with regard to her colonies, and the acquisitons of Canada and Guadaloupe (1760), better known as the “Canada Pamphlet” constitutes Benjamin Franklin’s thorough refutation of Burke’s Remarks.