[SHEBBEARE, John (1709-1788)]. Le Peuple Instruit; ou les Alliances dans lesquelles les Ministres de la Grande-Bretagne ont engagé la Nation, & l’emploi qu’ils ont fait de ses escadres & de ses armées, depuis le commencement des troubles sur l’Ohio, jusqu’à la perte de Minorque, considérés dans une Quatrième Lettre au Peuple d’Angleterre.. [Paris?]: 1756. 12mo. (6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches). Front blank. (Small old repair to upper outer corner of final leaf). Later brown cloth.

First edition in French of the fourth and most valuable of a series of pamphlets written in English by Tory political satirist and pamphleteer, John Shebbeare.

Shebbeare wrote an initial series seven Letters to the people of England. According to the title of the first English edition, the present fourth letter dealt with the Conduct of the M[iniste]rs in alliances, fleets, & armies since the first differences on the Ohio, to the taking of Minorca by the French. Near the end of 1757, after Pitts dismissal, Shebbeare published his Sixth Letter and finally went to far: in the following year he was tried for libel, fined, pilloried and imprisoned, and his final Seventh letter (London: 1758) was seized and suppressed. .

Howes S368; Sabin 80054.