Note 169 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,456; Sabin, viii. no. 32,966; Cooke Catalogue, no. 1,202. It was reprinted in London in 1766, at the instigation of the Rhode Island agent, as The Grievances of the American Colonies carefully examined (Sparks, no. 1,272; Cooke, no. 1,203). There is a reprint in the R. I. Col. Records, vi. 416. The London text is followed in Selim H. Peabody's American Patriotism (N. Y., 1880). The original edition of all was published by order of the R. I. Assembly in 1764, but no copy is known. Cf. Wm. E. Foster's Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island Statesman; study in the political history of the eighteenth century (Providence, 1884,—no. 19 of R. I. Hist. Tracts), who examines (ii. p. 227) the claims of Hopkins to its authorship, for the tract was printed anonymously. Cf. Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, p. 172; Palfrey's New England (Compend. ed.), iv. 369. Hopkins's tract was controverted in a Letter from a gentleman at Halifax (Newport, 1765,—Sabin, x. 40,281); and James Otis replied in a Vindication of the British Colonies against the aspersions of the Halifax gentleman (Boston, 1765; Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,480); and this in turn was followed by a Defence of the Letter, etc. (Newport, 1765), and Brief Remarks (Brinley, i. nos. 190, 198). A tract usually cited by a similar title, but which was called at length Coloniæ Anglicanæ illustratæ: or the Acquest of dominion and the plantation of Colonies made by the English in America, with the rights of the Colonists examined, stated, and illustrated. Part I. (London, 1762; Sabin, ii. 6,209; Carter-Brown, iii. 1,314) was never completed, and was mostly occupied with irrelevant matter. Its author was William Bollan, who was dismissed as the Massachusetts agent during that same year, and John Adams (x. 355) says he scarce ever knew a book so utterly despised. Otis (Tudor, p. 114) expressed his contempt for it (Sabin, ii. p. 265-6).