Consolatory thoughts on American independence : shewing the great advantages that will arise from it to the manufactures, the agriculture, and commercial interest of Britain and Ireland : Published for the benefit of the Orphan Hospital at Edinburgh
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Consolatory thoughts on American independence : shewing the great advantages that will arise from it to the manufactures, the agriculture, and commercial interest of Britain and Ireland : Published for the benefit of the Orphan Hospital at Edinburgh
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Half-title: Consolatory thoughts on American independence
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[2] leaves, 68 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
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Consolatory thoughts on American independence : shewing the great advantages that will arise from it to the manufactures, the agriculture, and commercial interest of Britain and Ireland : Published for the benefit of the Orphan Hospital at Edinburgh / by a Merchant. Edinburgh : Printed by James Donaldson, 1782.
Signed at end: T. True Briton.
"Attributed to 'Tod of Kirtland' in the article on Thomas Somerville in the Dictionary of National Biography."--Sabin.
"Price one shilling"
Rockefeller Library copy inscribed: "From the Orphan Hospital To Baron Stewart Moncrieffe" on half-title.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of James Strohn Copley with his bookplate.
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Adams, T.R. Brit. pamphlets, 82-89
ESTC, T31589
Sabin, 96076
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Tod, T. (Thomas), active 1781 , “Consolatory thoughts on American independence : shewing the great advantages that will arise from it to the manufactures, the agriculture, and commercial interest of Britain and Ireland : Published for the benefit of the Orphan Hospital at Edinburgh,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed September 5, 2026, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/3748.