Pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum queim
Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus astant;
Ille regit dictis animos et pectora mulce............VIRG.

VOL. I.

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1951 48-47 95

TO

JOSEPH DENNIE, ESQUIRE,

WHOSE

PRINCIPLES ARE AS STEDFAST,

AS

THEY ARE KNOWN TO BE CATHOLICK,

AND

WHOSE VIRTUE IS AS PURE AS HIS GENIUS IS CONFESSEDLY SPLENDID,

THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT

TO

RECORD THE ELOQUENCE OF MODERN TIMES,

IS INSCRIBED.

CONTENTS

OF THE FIRST VOLUME

PREFACE.

Page.

LORD CHATHAM'S Speech in the house of lords, on

a motion made by the Duke of Richmond, on the 2d

of November, 1770, calling on the ministry for certain

documents respecting the relations of the country with

the court of Spain,

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Mr. Burke's Speech, on American taxation, delivered

in the house of commons, April 19th, 1774.

Lord Chatham's Speech, delivered in the house of lords,

January the 9th, 1770, in reply to lord Mansfield, on

an amendment to the address to the throne,

Mr. Burke's Speech, on moving his resolutions for con-
ciliation with the colonies. Delivered in the house of
commons, the twenty-second of March, 1775.

Lord Chesterfield's Speech, on the bill introduced into

the house of lords, May 24th, 1737, for licensing and

regulating the theatres,

T

Lord Chatham's Speech, in the house of lords, on the

22d of January, 1770, on a motion of lord Rockingham,

to inquire into the state of the nation,

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27

93

107

177

195

Mr. Murray's Speech, afterwards lord Mansfield, on a

bill introduced into the house of commons, December