The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)

by Edmund Burke

• [SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION, April 19, 1774] [1]
• • [PREFACE]
  • [SPEECH]
• [SPEECHES ON ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL AND AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE POLL, October 13 and November 3, 1774] [81]
• • [EDITOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.]
  • [SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL.]
  • [SPEECH TO THE ELECTORS OF BRISTOL, ON HIS BEING DECLARED BY THE SHERIFFS DULY ELECTED ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT FOR THAT CITY, ON THURSDAY, THE 3D OF NOVEMBER, 1774.]
• [SPEECH ON MOVING RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA, March 22, 1775] [99]
• [LETTER TO THE SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL, ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA, April 3, 1777] [187]
• [TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN OF BRISTOL, ON THE BILLS DEPENDING IN PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE TRADE OF IRELAND, April 23 and May 2, 1778] [247]
• • [TO SAMUEL SPAN, ESQ., MASTER OF THE SOCIETY OF MERCHANTS ADVENTURERS OF BRISTOL.]
  • [COPY OF A LETTER TO MESSRS. ———— AND CO., BRISTOL.]
• [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, February 11, 1780] [265]
• [SPEECH AT BRISTOL PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION, September 6, 1780] [365]
• [SPEECH AT BRISTOL ON DECLINING THE POLL, September 9, 1780] [425]
• [SPEECH ON MR. FOX'S EAST INDIA BILL, December 1, 1783] [431]
• [A REPRESENTATION TO HIS MAJESTY, MOVED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 14, 1784 ] [537]
• • [PREFACE]
  • [MOTION]

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SPEECH
ON
AMERICAN TAXATION.
APRIL 19, 1774.

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PREFACE.

The following speech has been much the subject of conversation, and the desire of having it printed was last summer very general. The means of gratifying the public curiosity were obligingly furnished from the notes of some gentlemen, members of the last Parliament.

This piece has been for some months ready for the press. But a delicacy, possibly over-scrupulous, has delayed the publication to this time. The friends of administration have been used to attribute a great deal of the opposition to their measures in America to the writings published in England. The editor of this speech kept it back, until all the measures of government have had their full operation, and can be no longer affected, if ever they could have been affected, by any publication.