1783. History of Great Britain from the Revolution of 1688 to the Accession of George I, 2 vols. 1787, from the Latin manuscript of Alexander Cunningham. This translation was carried out for Thomas Hollingbery. Thomson confused the issue of the authorship in his introduction: he argued, wrongly and in a way that could be refuted from the extant wills, that the author was the same person as Alexander Cunningham of Block the critic (1655?–1730). He had supporters including Samuel Parr for his theory, which did not last into the 19th century. Memoirs of the War in Asia from 1780 to 1784, 2 vols. 1788. Appeal to the People on behalf of Warren Hastings, 1788. Mammuth, or Human Nature displayed on a grand scale, in a Tour with the Tinkers into the Central Parts of Africa, 1789. A Tour in England and Scotland by an English Gentleman, 1789, enlarged into Prospects and Observations on a Tour in England and Scotland, by Thomas Newte, Esq., 1791. Newte's family owned the estate of Duvale in the parish of Bampton, Devon and resided there or at nearby Tiverton Memoirs of Sergeant Donald Macleod, 1791. Travels into Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, by Andrew Swinton, 1792. Introduction to the Trial of Mr. Hastings, 1796. Memoirs relative to Military Tactics, 1805. Travels in Scotland by James Hall, illustrated, 1807. Thomson also: continued Oliver Goldsmith's History of Greece; expanded in 1793 John Lanne Buchanan's Travels in the Hebrides; translated Travels to the North Cape, from the Italian of Giuseppe Acerbi; compiled under the name of Harrison a commentary on the Bible; and edited Narrative of an Expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, by John Gabriel Stedman. It is now known that Thomson made significant changes to the manuscript, in producing the first edition. Stedman rejected that first edition of 1795, requiring it to be destroyed, and the 1796 edition was based on both Thomson's work and the original. A five-act tragedy, Caledonia, or the Clans of Yore, appeared posthumously in 1818. Thomson prepared from 1790 to 1800 the historical part of Dodsley's Annual Register. From 1794 to December 1796 Thomson owned The English Review, and largely wrote its content. When he gave up the ownership it was incorporated into the Analytical Review. He also wrote for the European Magazine, the Political Herald, The Oracle, and the Whitehall Evening Post. In politics, he defended the French Revolution in