CONSOLATORY THOUGHTS ON AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE; SHEWING THE GREAT ADVANTAGES THAT WILL ARISE FROM IT TO THE MANUFACTURES, THE AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCIAL INTEREST OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND...By a Merchant

      Edinburgh: Printed by James Donaldson, 1782.. [4],68pp. Antique calf, raised bands. A near fine copy. A rare Revolutionary tract, written in part as a response to Thomas Somerville's CANDID THOUGHTS (1781). Tod points to the great economic advantages that might develop for England as a consequence of American independence.