BOHNS STANDARD LIBRARY.

BURKE'S WORKS.

VOL. VI.

Preliminary Volume to the Standard Library Edition of

Burke's Works.

LIFE

THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE,

JAMES PRIOR, ESC,

FIFTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

Witty Fine Portrait.

MISCELLANEOUS SPEECHES, LETTERS, AND FRAGMENTS

ABRIDGMENT OF ENGLISH HISTORY, ETC.

With a General Inder.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

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CONTENTS.

VOL. VI.

PARU

ETTER to the Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Meeting, held 13th

April, 1780, at Aylesbury; on the Duration of Parliaments, and

a more equal Representation of the People

Tracts relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland,

Letter to William Smith, Esq., dated January 1795, then Mensber

of the Irish Parliament, now one of the Barons of the Court of

Exchequer in Ireland, on the same subject . . .
Second Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, dated May, 1795, on the

same subject

Letter to Richard Burke, Esq., on the same subject . . 61

Letter on the Affairs of Ireland, written in the year 1797. .

Fragments and Notes of Speeches in Parliament:-

On the Acts of Uniformity

. . . . 91

On the Bill for the Relief of Protestant Dissenters .

On the Petition of the Unitarians . . . . 113

On the Middlesex Election . .

126

On a Bill for Shortening the Duration of Parliaments . . 132

On the Reform of the Representation in the House of Commons 144

On the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels. , 154

A Letter on the same subject . . . . .

On a Bill for repealing the Marriage Act . . . 168

On the Dormant Claims of the Church . . . . 172

Hints for an Essay on the Drama . . . . 175

AN ABRIDGMENT OF ENGLISH HISTORY, from the Invasion of

Julius Cæsar to the End of the Reign of King John. In Three

Books : viz.-

BOOK I.

CHAP. I. Causes of the Connexion between the Romans and Bri-

tons.-Cæsar's two Invasions of Britain . .

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