American independence, the interest and glory of Great Britain, or, Arguments to prove, that not only in taxation, but in trade, manufactures, and government, the colonies are entitled to an entire independency on the British legislature : and that it can only be by a formal declaration of these rights, and forming thereupon a friendly league with them, that the true and lasting welfare of both countries can be promoted : in a series of letters to the legislature : to which are added copious notes containing reflections on the Boston and Quebec Acts, and a full justification of the people of Boston, for destroying the British-taxed tea : submitted to the judgment, not of those who have none but borrowed party-opinions, but of the candid and honest.