HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIET
EDINBURGH, AND MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, &c. &c.

VOL. IV.

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CONTENTS

OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

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Lord Mornington's Speech in the house of commons, on

a motion for an address to his majesty at the com-

mencement of the session of parliament, delivered

July 21, 1794.

Mr. Curran's Speech, on the right of election of lord

mayor of the city of Dublin. Delivered before the

lord lieutenant and privy council of Ireland.-1790.

Mr. Fox's Speech, on Mr. Whitbread's resolutions re-

specting the Russian armament, delivered in the house

of commons, March 1, 1792.

Lord Clare's Speech, on a motion of address to the lord

lieutenant, &c. delivered in the house of lords of Ire-

land,

Mr. Pitt's Speech, delivered in the house of commons,

February 3, 1800, on a motion for an address to the

throne, approving of the answers returned to the com-

munications from France, relative to a negotiation for

peace.

Mr. Fox's Speech, delivered in the house of commons,

February S, 1800, on a motion for an address to the

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167

205

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throne approving of the answers returned to the com-

munications from France relative to a negotiation for

peace, in reply to Mr Pitt.

331

Mr. Erskine's Speech, on the trial of an information ex-

hibited ex officio, by the king's attorney general, against

Thomas Paine, for a libel upon the revolution and set-

tlement of the crown and regal government, as by law

established; and also upon the bills of rights, legisla-

ture, government, laws, and parliament of this king-

dom, and upon the king. Tried by a special jury in

: the court of king's bench, Guildhall, on the 18th of

December, 1792, before the right honourable lord

Kenyon.

Mr. Erskine's Speech, on the trial of Thomas Williams,

for the publication of Paine's "Age of Reason," be-

fore lord Kenyon, and a special jury, July 24, 1797.

385

456

SELECT SPEECHES.

LORD MORNINGTON'S SPEECH

IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, ON A MOTION FOR AN ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION

OF PARLIAMENT, DELIVERED JANUARY 21, 1794.

THE ensuing speech is from one of those sagacious statesmen,* who, with Edmund Burke and William Pitt, early discerned and valiantly struggled against the march of the “anarch fiend," that has since spread terrour and desolation over the fairest portions of the world, and which was prevented from raising its head of " horrid portent" in England only, by the most steady, determined, and persevering resistance.

On the address, in answer to the king's speech at the opening of the session, an animated and well contested debate arose. The opposition, conformably to the policy which distinguished the whole of their parliamentary conduct with regard to French affairs, vehemently attacked that part of the address which pledged the house to a vigorous prosecution of the war till the objects of it were attained.

* Lord Mornington, now Marquis of Wellesley, late go vernour general of Bengal.