Yorkshire, Politics. [Attributed to Hartley (David the Young...

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Yorkshire, Politics. [Attributed to Hartley (David the Younger)], An Address from the Committee of Association of the County of York, to the Electors of Great-Britain. To which are prefixed The Resolutions of that Committee, At their Meetings, Held on the 3d and 4th of January, 1781, and the Instrument of Instructions to their Deputies, ? first edition, s.l. [? York]: s.n., n.d. [1781], 18pp, as issued, stitched, uncut, folio (29 x 22cm)

David Hartley (1732-1813), twice MP for Kingston upon Hull (1774-80 & 1782-84), a Rockingham Whig champion of liberty - here exemplified through a Yorkshire paradigm - and friend of Benjamin Franklin. His parliamentary voting record and friendship with the latter were instrumental in his being appointed the British government's plenipotentiary and signatory to the 1783 Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War. A Second Address (London, 1782), attributed to John Stockdale, assigned the blame for the expensive war with the then Colonies on the king, George III.