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Lettre au comte de Shelburne, à l'occasion du discours qu'il a prononcé au parlement d'Angleterre, le 10 juillet 1782, sur l'indépendance des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique

1793 Subjects: Politics and government, Revolutions Forms: Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. Translation Status: Integral French Paris URL

Authors of source text

Thomas Paine

Contributions

uncertainty Anonymous (François Soulès)
translator
François Buisson
publisher

Related resources

is translation of
A letter to the Earl of Shelburne on his speech, July 10, 1782, respecting the acknowledgement of American independence has translation
is part of
Recueil des divers écrits de Thomas Paine, secrétaire du Congrès Américain, et membre de la Convention Nationale en 1792, sur la politique et la législation, faisant suite aux autres ouvrages intitulés, Les Droits de l'Homme et le Sens Commun. Traduit de l'Anglois translation has paratext

Notes

Paine attacks Shelburne's view of the American Revolution by asserting that the only means for the Americans to attain liberty is independence from Britain, whose government he calls criminal and despotic.