SPEECHES,

FORENSICK AND PARLIAMENTARY,

WITH PREFATORY REMARKS.

BY

N. CHAPMAN, M. D.

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF
EDINBURGH, AND MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, &c. &c.

VOL. III.

-Pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem
Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus astant;
Ille regit dictis animos et pectora mulcet..........VIRG.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY B. B. HOPKINS, AND CO.

No. 170, MARKET STREET.

1807.

DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT: (L. S.)

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the first day of

August, in the thirty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1807, Nathaniel Chapman, M. D. of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words following, to wit :

“ SELECT SPEECHES, Forensick and Parliamentary, with prefatory remarks. By . Chapman, M. D. honorary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and member of the American Philosophical Society, &c. &c.

-Pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem
Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus astant;

Ile regit dictis animos et pectóra mulcet..........VIRG."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United
States, entitled, “ An act for the encouragement of Learning,
by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the au.
thors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein
mentioned.” And also to the act, entitled “ An act supple-
mentary to the act, entitled, “ An act for the encouragement
of learning, by securing the copies of maps charts, and books,
to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times
therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the
arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other

prints.”

CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

Page.

MR. BURKE'S Speech on the motion for papers re-

lative to the directions for charging the Nabob of

Arcot's private debts to Europeans, on the revenues

of the Carnatick. Feb. 28, 1785.

3

Speech of M. De Mirabeau, on the royal assent.

91

Speech of the honourable Thomas Erskine, on the trial

of John Stockdale, for a libel on the House of Com-

mons. Tried before the right honourable Lloyd,

lord Kenyon, chief justice of England, December

9, 1789.

Speech of Mr. Curran, on the trial of Archibald Ha.

milton Rowan, Esquire, for the publication of a libel.

107

149

195

Mr. Pitt's Speech on revenue and expenditure, deli-

vered in the House of Commons, February 17, 1792.

Mr. Burke's Speech at Bristol, previous to the election

in the year 1780.

223

Mr. Burke's Speech, at Bristol, on declining the poll,

1780,

271

Mr. Curran's Speech against the Marquis of Headfort.

Mr. Fox's Spech in the House of Commons, June 8,

1784, on the scrutiny of the Westminster election.

295

M. De Mirabeau's Speech, on the right of making war

and peace : delivered in the National Assembly,

May 20, 1790.

349

Mr. Pitt's Speech in defence of certain grants of mo-

ney to the allies without the authority of parliament.

Delivered in the House of Commons, December 14,

1796.

381

409