Roume Saint-Laurent [Philippe-Rose ROUME]
Mémoire de M. Roume, commissaire et ordonnateur de l'isle de Tabago, chargé par le ministre de la marine de répondre aux réclamations des hypothécaires anglais, qui réfute un mémoire adressé à l'Assemblée Nationale pour les créanciers anglais des habitants de la même isle, par MM. Tod & Francklyn, députés de ces créanciers[Memorial by M. Roume, Commissioner and Administrator of the Island of Tobago, Charged by the Minister of the Navy with Responding to the Claims of the English Mortgagees, Refuting a Memorial Addressed to the National Assembly on Behalf of the English Creditors of the Inhabitants of the Same Island, by Messrs. Tod & Francklyn, Deputies of Those Creditors]
Imprimerie Nationale (1789-1805)|Paris 1790|14 x 21.5 cm|Broché
New edition (cf. Sabin 73468.)
Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers, lacking the spine and without any provisional binding covers.
England ceded the island of Tobago to France in 1783.
English creditors laid claim to considerable sums from the colonists; a demand deemed unfounded by Roume de Saint-Laurent.
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