ABSTRACT
The American Loyalists lobbied and petitioned Parliament, and mounted a major press campaign, against the peace treaty negotiated between Britain and the America at Paris in 1783. This handbill, probably distributed very widely in late 1783 or early 1784, tried to shame the British government, Parliament and nation into taking responsibility for securing some compensation for the heavy losses suffered by those Americans who had supported the British cause during the War of American Independence. In this chapter, the author, almost certainly acting on the instructions of the American agents of the Committee or Board of American Loyalists, points out that the British commissioner who negotiated the peace had given way to the opinions expressed by the American commissioners that Britain had done more damage to the interests of those Americans who had rebelled against British authority than these Americans had inflicted on the American Loyalists.
