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FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. An Examination into the Value of Canada and Guadaloupe, With an Impartial Account of The Latter, In Answer to a late Pamphlet, entitled, The Interest of Great-Britain, considered with Regard to her Colonies. In a Letter to a Gentleman in England. Some Courtiers about Henry the Fourth of France, endeavouring to irritate him against the Author of a Book called, "A Description of the Island of Hermophridites lately discovered," that Monarch answered, God forbid I should be angry with a Map for telling the Truth!" . London: Printed for William White 1761. 8 o (194 x 122). (Title and last leaves loose, some pale browning.) Disbound. Provenance : J.B. Chandler (ink signature on title). In this reply to Franklin's Interest of Great Britain Considered , the anonymous author concludes the superiority of gaining Guadaloupe rather than Canada: "... by keeping Canada and giving up Guadaloupe, Great Britain will throw into the scale of France, the difference of the value of the trade between these two places, which will be found to be a million sterling yearly of loss to Great Britain, and two hundred thousand pounds to the North American colonies ... by the retention of Guadaloupe, we shall not only find the above encrease [sic] in the commerce of Britain, and her colonies, but an augmentation in the revenue sufficent [sic] to defray the expences of a very formidable barrier, capable of procuring, every kind of security to our back settlers, and to curb any nation that dares violate our territories ... the money spent in this carrier will enrich North America, without impoverishing the mother country, where it must ultimately revert with profit" (p. 40-41). RARE: not in Sabin, TPL, Lande, Vlach, Gagnon, Dionne, Can. Arch, Church, Streeter, Bell, Ford or JCB. The NUC cites 4 holdings, none in Canada (New York & Detroit Public Libraries, the Library Co. of Pennsylvania & the Historical Society of Pennsylvania). Waldon, p.470.