Cui bono? or, An inquiry, what benefits can arise either to the English or the Americans, the French, Spaniards, or Dutch from the greatest victories, or successes in the present war? : being a series of letters, addressed to Monsieur Necker ...

Cui bono? or, An inquiry, what benefits can arise either to the English or the Americans, the French, Spaniards, or Dutch from the greatest victories, or successes in the present war? : being a series of letters, addressed to Monsieur Necker ...

Inquiry, what benefits can arise either to the English or the Americans, the French, Spaniards, or Dutch

[1st ed.]

Glocester Printed by R. Raikes, for T. Cadell ..., sold also by Evans and Hazell ..., 1781

141, [3] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)

L2007F11 1781

(OCoLC)29119242

Signatures: A-S4
Tucker was a British economist and opponent of colonialism who wrote several tracts arguing that the British should forego their effort to retain the American colonies; in this tract he argued that the war was a mistake for all the nations concerned
Postscript includes news of Cornwallis' defeat at Yorktown: "This moment an account is arrived, that the brave Cornwallis with this little army has been obliged to submit to the united forces of superior numbers, I am at a loss on what to say on this occasion. - To congratulate my country on being defeated is contrary to that decency which is due to the public. And yet, if this defeat should terminate in a total separation from America, it would be one of the happiest events, that hath ever happed to Great Britain ..."
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