Author:George Chalmers

George Chalmers
(1742–1825)

George Chalmers

Works

• Answer from the Electors of Bristol to the letters of Edmund Burke, Esq., on Affairs of America
• Political Annals of the present United Colonies from the Settlement to the Peace of 1768. Compiled chiefly from Records. Ending at the Revolution, 1688 (1780)
• The Propriety of allowing a qualified Export of Wool discussed historically (1782)
• Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the Colonies (1782), vol. i.
• An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Britain during the Present and Four Preceding Reigns (1782)
• Opinions on interesting subjects of Public Laws and Commercial Policy arising from American Independence (1784)
• Three Tracts on the Irish Arrangements (1785)
• Historical Tracts by Sir John Davies, with a Life of the Author (1786)
• Life of Daniel De Foe (1786)
• A Collection of Treaties between Great Britain and other Powers (1790), in 2 vols.
• Life of Thomas Paine. By Francis Oldys, A.M., of the University of Pennsylvania (1793)
• Prefatory Introduction to Dr. Johnson's “Debates in Parliament” (1794)
• Life of Thomas Ruddiman, M.A. To which are subjoined new Anecdotes of Buchanan (1794)
• Vindication of the Privilege of the People in respect of the Constitutional Right of Free Discussion (1796) (anon.).
• Apology for the Believers in the Shakespeare Papers which were exhibited in Norfolk Street, London (1796)
• A Supplemental Apology (1799)
• Appendix to the “Supplemental Apology,” being the Documents for the opinion that Hugh Boyd wrote Junius's Letters (1800)
• The Poems of Allan Ramsay, with a Life of the Author (1800) 2 vols.
• Observations on the State of England in 1696, by Gregory King, with a Life of the Author (1804)
• Life of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King-at-arms under James V (1806) 3 vols.
• Caledonia; or an Account, Historical and Topographical, of North Britain … Chorographical and Philological (1807, vol. i.; 1810, vol. ii.; 1824, vol. iii.)
• A Chronological Account of Commerce and Coinage in Great Britain from the Restoration till 1810 (1810)
• Considerations on Commerce (1811)
• An Historical View of the Domestic Economy of Great Britain and Ireland. New edition of ‘The Comparative Estimate’ corrected and enlarged, Edin. 1812)
• Opinions of Eminent Lawyers on various points of English Jurisprudence, chiefly concerning the Colonies, Fisheries, and Commerce of Great Britain (1814), in 2 vols.
• A tract, privately printed, in answer to Malone's account of Shakespeare's 'Tempest'’ (1815)
• Comparative Views of the State of Great Britain and Ireland before and since the War (1817)
• The Author of Junius Ascertained, from a Concatenation of Circumstances amounting to Moral Demonstration (1817)
• Churchyard's ‘Chips concerning Scotland,’ with a life of the author (1817)
• Life of Mary Queen of Scots, drawn from the State Papers, with six subsidiary Memoirs (1818), in 2 vols.
• The Poetical Remains of some of the Scottish Kings now first collected (1824)
• Robene and Makyne and the Testament of Cresseid,’ by Robert Henryson, edited and presented by Mr. Chalmers as his contribution to the Bannatyne Club (1824)
• A Detection of the Love Letters lately attributed in Hugh Campbell's work to Mary Queen of Scots (1825)

Works about Chalmers

• "Chalmers, George (1742-1825)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Chalmers, George," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Chalmers, George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)