Writings And Speeches Vol II Author:Edmund Burke WRITINGS AND SPEECHES 0F THE RIGHT HONOURAB1, E EDMUND BURKE -- CONTENTS OF VOL. 11. SPEECH O N E R I C A N T AXATIO A N p , r il 19, l774 . SPEECHE O S X ARRIVAL A T BRISTOL A ND AT THE CORCLU SION OF THE POLL, October 13 and November 3, 1774 . SPEECII O X MOVING RESOLUTIOX FO S R COSCILIATION W ITH AMERICA, March 22, li75 . LETTER T O THE SHER... more »IFF O S F BRISTOL O , N THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA, April 3, 1777 . TWO LETTER T S O GENTLEBIE O N F BRISTOL O , X TIIE BILLS DEPENDING IN PARLIAM R E E N LA T TI VE TO THE TRADE OF IRELAND, April 23 and Jlay 2, 1778 . SPEECH O N PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE O F COMJIONS A PIAN FOR TIIE BETTER S ECURIT O Y F THE ISDEPEX DEXCE OF PARLIAME A N ND T , T HE ECOSOMIC R A E L F OR AIATiOX OF THE CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMEXTS, February 11, 1780 . SPEECH A T BRISTOL PR EVIOUS TO THE ELECTION Se , p tem ber 6, 1780 . SPEECH AT BRISTOL ON DECLINING THE POLL, Septem ber 9, 1750 . SPEECH O N MR. FOXS E AST I NDIBAIL L, D ecember 1, 1783 A REPRESENTATIO TO N 111s MAJESTY, MOVED IN THE HOUSE O F COMMONS Ju , ne 14, 1784 . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME TIVO Trinity College, Dublin . . . . . . . . Frontispiece From an aquatint in the British Museum, by James Malton, published in 1793. View of Bristol in 1774 . . . . . . . Engraved Title William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham . . . . . Page 62 From a picture painted by William Hoare, R. A., in the National Portrait Gallery. The Nabob of Arcot . . . . . . . . . . 450 From a mezzotint in the British Museum, by John Dixon, after a picture by Ward. The Right Honourable William Windham, R1. P. . 536 From a painting in the National Portrait Gallery, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P. R. A. S P E E C H ON AMERICAN TAXATION. PREFACE. T HE following speech has beell mucli the suhject of conversation, and the desire of liariilg it printed was last summer very general. Tlie ucails of gratifying tlie public curiosity were obligingly furnished froin the notes of some geiitlemeil, members of the last Iarliament. Tliis piece has been for some mo ltllsr eady for the press. But a delicacy, possibly over-scrupulous, has delayed tlie publication to this time. Tile friends of administratio i 1ia eb eell used to attribute a great deal of the opposition to their measures ill dinerica to the writings publisl ed in England. The editor of this speech kept it back, until all the measures of governmeilt have llad their full operation, ancl call be no longer affected, if ever they could have beell affect cd, by any publication. Most readers mill recollect tlie urlcolnlnorl pailis taken at tlic bcginniiig of tllc last sessioil of the last Parliainerlt, and indeed during the whole coui-se of it, to asperse the cliaractcrs and dccry the ineasllres of those wllo were supposed to be friends to Anlericn, in order to weaken tlie effect of their opposition to the acts of rigor then preparing against tlie colo lics. The speech contains a full refutatioii of the charges against that party with mliicll 111.. Burke has a. 11 aloilg acted. I11 cloi lgt his, he has take11 a review of 4 PREFACE. the effects of a11 tlie schemes which have beell succcssively adopted in the government of the plantations. The subject is interesting the matters of iilforma tion various and important and the publication at this time, the editor hopes, mill not be thought un seasonable. SPEECH. DURINQ th e last session of the last Parliament, on the 19th of April, 1774, Mr...« less