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Humourous Reasons for Restoring Canada

December 27, 1759April 25, 2013Benjamin Franklin1. 1757 - 1768, Benjamin Franklin, Colonial America, London Chronicle, Native Americans, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol III: London

Mr. Chronicle, We Britons are a nation of statesmen and politicians; we are privy councellors by birthright; and therefore take it much amiss when we are told by some of your correspondents, `that it is not proper to expose to public view the many good reasons there are for restoring Canada,’ (if we reduce it.)…

Those Who Would Have Peace with France

November 24, 1759April 25, 2013Benjamin Franklin1. 1757 - 1768, Benjamin Franklin, Colonial America, London Chronicle, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol III: London

A Description of Those, Who, at Any Rate, Would Have a Peace with France The two prevailing motives among us, which strongly bias great numbers of people, at this time, to wish for a peace with France, let the terms be ever so dishonourable, ever so disadvantageous, or likely to prove of ever so short…

A Defense of the Americans

May 12, 1759April 25, 2013Benjamin Franklin1. 1757 - 1768, Benjamin Franklin, Colonial America, London Chronicle, Native Americans, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Vol III: London

A New Englandman to the Printer of the London Chronicle: A Defense of the Americans To the Printer of the CHRONICLE. SIR, While the public attention is so much turned towards America, every letter from thence that promises new information, is pretty generally read; it seems therefore the more necessary that care should be taken…