Preliminary Volume to the Standard Library Edition of

Burke's Works.

LIFE

OF

THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE.

BY

JAMES PRIOR, ESQ.

FIFTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.

With Fine Bartrait.

Printed uniformly with the present Edition, to which it forms an essential accompaniment.

Price 33. 6d.

THE WORKS

OF

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

EDMUND BURKE.

VOL. II.

POLITICAL MISCELLANIES.

REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.
LETTER TO A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

1886.

LONDON:

PLINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS

CONTENTS.

VOL. II

A LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL, ON THE AFFAIRS OF

AMERICA

TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL, ON THE

BILL DEPENDING IN PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE TRADEe of

IRELAND

SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR

THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPENDence of ParliAMENT,

AND THE ECONOMICAL REFORMATION OF THE CIVIL AND OTHER

ESTABLISHMENTS

SPEECH AT BRISTOL, PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION, 1780

SPEECH AT BRISTOL, ON DECLINING THE POLL

SPEECH ON THE EAST-INDIA BILL

PAGE

1

43

55

127

170

173

A REPRESENTATION TO HIS MAJESTY, MOVED IN THE HOUSE OF

COMMONS, JUNE 14, 1784

249

REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND ON THE PRO-

CEEDINGS OF CERTAIN SOCIETIES IN LONDON RELATIVE TO THAT

EVENT

277