Excerpt from Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters Reaches London conduct regarding the Stamp Act; has Hughes made stamp collector; is lampooned for this; his writings for the London newspapers; Rules for. Reducing a Great Empire to a Small One. An Edict of the King of Prussia. Visits France. First Eng lish edition of his works; Dubourg translates it into French. The Hutchinson Letters. Abused before the Privy Council. Delivers the Declaration of Rights, and returns to Philadelphia; is elected to Congress 189-217. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.