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CONTENTS.


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Introduction[11]
The Office of Commander-in-Chief[63]
Speech at a Meeting for the Abolition of Slavery, June 1, 1840[81]
Speech at the Literary Fund Dinner, 1842[83]
Speech at a Meeting of the Corporation of the Trinity House[85]
Speech at the Meeting of the Society for improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, May 18, 1848[87]
Speech at the Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society held at York, July 13, 1848[91]
Speech at the laying of the First Stone of the Great Grimsby Docks, April 18, 1849[93]
Speech at the Public Meeting of the Servants’ Provident and Benevolent Society, May 16, 1849[96]
Speech at the Entertainment given by the Merchant Tailors’ Company, June 11, 1849[103]
Speech on presenting Colours to the 23rd Regiment, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, July 12, 1849[106]
Speech at the Banquet given at the Mansion House to the Ministers, Foreign Ambassadors, Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, and Mayors of Towns, March 21, 1850[109]
Speech at the laying of the Foundation Stone of the National Gallery at Edinburgh, August 30, 1850[115]
Speech at the Banquet given by the Lord Mayor of York and Mayors of chief Towns to the Lord Mayor of London, October 25, 1850[118]
Speech at the Dinner of the Royal Academy, May 3, 1851[126]
Speech at the Third Jubilee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, June 16, 1851[131]
Speech at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Windsor, July 16, 1851[136]
Speeches at the Banquet at the Trinity House, June 4, 1853[139]
Speech at the Bicentenary Festival of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, May 10, 1854[146]
Speeches at the Dinner at the Trinity House, June 21, 1854[149]
Speeches at the Annual Dinner at the Trinity House, June 9, 1855[154]
Speeches at the Opening of the New Cattle Market, in Copenhagen Fields, Islington, June 13, 1855[159]
Speeches at the Banquet at Birmingham, on laying the First Stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, November 22, 1855[162]
Address to the 3rd and 4th Regiments of the German Legion at Shorncliffe, on presenting to them their Colours, December 6, 1855[172]
Speech at the Opening of the Golden Lane Schools, March 19, 1857[173]
Speeches at the Opening of the Exhibition of Art Treasures at Manchester, May 5, 1857[177]
Speech at the Opening of the Conference on National Education, June 22, 1857[183]
Opening Address at the Meeting in the College of Physicians for the Inauguration of Jenner’s Statue, May 17, 1858[193]
Speeches at the Trinity House, July 3, 1858[195]
Speech at Cherbourg, after the Banquet on board ‘La Bretagne,’ August 5, 1858[199]
Speech on presenting new Colours to the 2nd Battalion of the 13th (“Prince Albert’s Own”) Light Infantry, at Harford Ridge, near Aldershot, February 21, 1859[200]
Speech at the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Aberdeen, September 14, 1859[203]
Speech at the Dinner on the Opening of the Clothworkers’ Hall, in the City, March 27, 1860[231]
Speech at the Banqueting Room, St. James’s Palace, on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the formation of the Grenadier Guards, June 16, 1860[234]
Speech at the Dinner of the Trinity House, June 23, 1860[243]
Speech on opening the International Statistical Congress, July 16, 1860[250]