Political magazines for August & October 1783.
4.
The Political Magazine and parliamentary, naval, military, and literary journal. For August, 1783. [-For October, 1783.] [
London:] printed for
J. Bew,
1783.
Parts of vol. v. 80 leaves in all, 3 plates.
A Tory magazine in opposition to Almon’s
Remembrancer
, q.v. Contains much material relative to American affairs and the Revolution including
The definitive treaty between Great Britain and the United States, September 3, 1783. Contains also Sir William Hamilton’s
Account of the late earthquakes in Calabria, Sicily, &c.
[2792]
Soulé’s Parliamentary Pocket book.
5. [SOULÉS,
François.]
Le Vade-Mecum parlementaire, ou The parliamentary pocket-book. Par M. S***. A
Londres, et se trouve à
Paris: chez les marchands de nouveautés,
1789.
First Edition. 45 leaves, 1 woodcut illustration,
French and
English text on opposite pages.
Barbier IV, 907.
Quérard IX, 225.
The name of the author written in ink on the title-page (not by Jefferson).
Other works by François Soulés occur in this catalogue, q.v.
[2793]
S
r. John Hawle’s Dialogue on Juries.
6. HAWLES,
Sir John.
The Englishman’s right: A dialogue between a barrister at law and a juryman; plainly setting forth, I. The antiquity, II.
The excellent designed use, III. The office, and just privileges, of juries, by the law of England. By Sir John Hawles, Knight, Solicitor-General to the late King William.
London: printed in the year
mdcclxxi
. [1771.]
12mo. 30 leaves.
Not in Lowndes.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 122, 15.
Sir John Hawles, 1645-1716, English lawyer. This tract was first published anonymously in 1680 in quarto with a different title.
[2794]
194
Political tracts English. 1790-1 & Irish.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 103. no. 187, Political Tracts, English and Irish, 1790, 1, 8vo.
This volume of tracts is no longer extant. As listed in the 1849 Catalogue the tracts were as follows:
Memorial of Lieut. John Mears to the Right Hon. Wm. W. Grenville, and presented to the House of Commons, respecting the Capture
of the Vessels in Nootka Sound
, 8vo; London, 1790.--
Serious Enquiries into the Motives and Consequences of our Present Armament against Russia; London, 1791.--
Considerations on the Approach of War, and the Conduct of the Ministers; London, 1791.--Letters
[
sic
]
to a Young Prince, on the Present Disposition in Europe to a General Revolution; with Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the French
Revolution
; London, 1791.--
Letters of Guatimozin.--
Eden on Irish Affairs.--
Caldwell’s (James) Enquiry how far the Restrictions on the Trade of Ireland, are a Benefit or Disadvantage to the British
Dominions, &c.
; 8vo; Dublin, 1779.
These tracts are not in the Library of Congress catalogue of 1864, and the volume probably disappeared at the time of the
fire of 1851. It is not possible to identify the editions in the Jefferson collection.
1. MEARS,
John.
Authentic copy of the memorial to the Right Honourable William Wyndham Grenville, one of his Majesty’s principal secretaries
of state, by Lieutenant John
