History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Chapman and Hall, 1858

OF THE SECOND VOLUME	1

General Burgoynes Advance from Canada	7

Lord Harcourt succeeds Lord Townshend as Irish Viceroy	23

His Speech	30

ATTEMPTS AT CONCILIATION	33

Difference of their Ideas on Colonial Policy	39

Secession of the Rockingham Party	45

Death of his Fatherinlaw	47

Dissensions in the Navy	284

Excitement in Scotland against granting any Relief to the Roman	290

Burkes Efforts to acquire a Freedom of Trade for Ireland	296

His Letter to Thomas Burgh Esq on Irish Affairs	302

Burkes Wit on the Clause of his Establishment Bill abolishing	326

Burke attacks Lord North for threatening to dissolve the East	339

The Court recovers ground	346

Loss of the Whole Bill	351

His Speech on arriving in the Town	53

Burkes high Position	66

Burke thinks of consulting Franklin at Paris	80

Character of Mrs Vesey	84

Irresolution of Lord North	89

Burkes Simile of the Archer and his Child	95

Burkes Plan of Conciliation	102

Dr Franklin bids Burke farewell	108

The Combined Fleets in the Channel	141

CHAPTER XXIII	147

Rejection of the Motion	153

This Change of Fortune unforeseen both by Burke and Washington	160

17771778	181

Burke contrasts the American War with the Seven Years Contest	194

Want of Policy in the Government	205

A New	206

Alarm of the House of Commons	221

Chathams Death	228

THE HERALD OF THE FUTURE	230

Effect of the Address and Petition which he drew up for	244

The French Fleet on the American Coast	265

His Opinions on the general Policy of the War at the Close	271

Keppel presents his Picture to Burke	278

Odious Calumnies	357

Burkes name given out by Lord George Gordon as the Opponent	363

His determined Speech in the House of Commons	369

Burkes Defence of the Catholics	377

Burke and Alderman Harley	393

Burke and Fox on the Delegates from the Counties	411

Burkes Generous Protection of Crabbe	419

Secret Committee on Indian Affairs	425

17811782	439

The Different Results of the Contest to the Contending Govern	446

Burkes Sensibility at the Anticipated Fate of the American	462

Lord Mulgrave	474

Conway brings forward another Resolution to the same effect	482

Lord Norths Goodnight Gentlemen	491

Refusal of the King to see Lord Rockingham	501

His unqualified Declarations against conceding the Independence	507

Burke declines accepting more than a limited Salary as Paymaster	513

Edens Conduct in the English House of Commons	520

Vigorous Proceedings against Indian Delinquents	526

Unfairness of Lord Shelburnes Conduct	528

Rodneys great Victory over De Grasse in the West Indies	534

Illness of Lord Rockingham	540

Not Burke who precipitated the Retirement of the Rockingham	546

Title	History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke, Volume 2 History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke, Thomas Macknight
Author	Thomas Macknight
Publisher	Chapman and Hall, 1858
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	1 Dec 2008

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