Note 192 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

There was a History of Amer. Taxation from 1763, published in a third ed. at Dublin in 1775 (Sabin, vii. 32,125). Franklin contended that at this time taxation of the colonies was a popular idea in England (Works, vii. 350), while Smyth found that at a later day (Lectures, ii. 371) he could get sympathy in speaking of "the miserable, mortifying, melancholy facts of our dispute with America." See synopsis of the arguments pro et con in Life of George Read, 76; Palfrey, iv. 327; Smyth's Lectures, ii. 471; Green's Hist. View, 55; Gardiner and Mullinger's Eng. Hist. for Students (N. Y., 1881), p. 183. Cf. also Bigelow's Franklin, i. 515; Foster's Stephen Hopkins, ii. 244.