Tucker, Josiah - The Respective Pleas and Arguments of the Mother Country

Tucker, Josiah, D.D. Dean of Glocester. TRACT V. THE RESPECTIVE PLEAS AND ARGUMENTS OF THE MOTHER COUNTRY, AND OF THE COLONIES, DISTINCTLY SET FORTH, And the Impoffibility of a COMPROMISE OF DIFFERENCES, OR A MUTUAL CONCESSION OF RIGHTS, PLAINLY DEMONSTRATED WITH A PREFATORY EPISTLE TO THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES of the late CONGRESS at PHILADELPHIA. GLOCESTER: PRINTED BY R. RAIKES; AND SOLD BY T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND, AND J. WALTER, CHARING-CROSS, LONDON M.DCC.LXXV. (1782) 1st. 51 pgs. Contains THE Epiftle Dedicatory To the Plenipotentiaries of the feveral Republics of New-Hampfhire, Maffachufets-Bay, Rhode-Ifland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New Jerfey, Penfilvania, Newcaftle, Kent and Suffex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina and South-Carolina, deputed to meet and fit in general Congrefs in the City of Philadelphia. TRACT V. THE Refpective Pleas and Arguments OF THE MOTHER COUNTRY, AND OF THE COLONIES DISTINCTLY SET FORTH, &c. SECTION 1. The Plea of Right of the Parliament of Great-Britain to govern every Part of the British Empire. SECTION II. The Plea alledged by the Colonies in Support of their Pretenfions. SECTION III. The refpective Pleas of the Parent State, and of the Colonies examined, and compared together: And the Impoffibility of their making any mutual Conceffions, confiftently with their refpective Claims; proved and demonftrated. Also and advertisement for the upcoming TRACT VI and the previous four tracts. Dbd. vg cond.

Josiah Tucker (1713 - 1799), also known as Josias Tucker and Dean Tucker became Dean of Gloucester as well as an economist and political writer concerned with free trade, Jewish emancipation and American Independence. He consistently wrote in favour of American independence through the American Revolutionary War. He felt that separation of the colonies from the mother country was desirable, but also felt that in time the colonies would be pleased to return to their present political union with Great Britain.