The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)

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Edmund Burke. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)

PREFACE. TO THE SECOND POSTHUMOUS VOLUME,1. IN A LETTER TO. THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM ELLIOT

FOURTH LETTER. ON THE. PROPOSALS FOR PEACE WITH THE REGICIDE DIRECTORY OF FRANCE. ADDRESSED TO. THE EARL FITZWILLIAM. 1795-7

PRELIMINARY CORRESPONDENCE

Letter from the Right Honorable the Lord Auckland to the Lord Bishop of Rochester

Letter from Lord Auckland to the Right Honorable Edmund Burke

Letter from the Right Honorable Edmund Burke to Lord Auckland

LETTER IV. TO THE EARL FITZWILLIAM

A. LETTER. TO. THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. NOVEMBER 1, 1791

A. LETTER. TO. SIR CHARLES BINGHAM, BART., ON THE. IRISH ABSENTEE TAX. OCTOBER 30, 1773

NOTE

LETTER

A. LETTER. TO. THE HON. CHARLES JAMES FOX, ON THE AMERICAN WAR. OCTOBER 8, 1777

A. LETTER. TO. THE MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM, WITH. ADDRESSES TO THE KING, AND. THE BRITISH COLONISTS IN NORTH AMERICA, IN RELATION TO. THE MEASURES OF GOVERNMENT IN THE AMERICAN CONTEST, AND A PROPOSED SECESSION OF THE OPPOSITION FROM PARLIAMENT. JANUARY, 1777

NOTE

LETTER. TO THE MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM

ADDRESS TO THE KING

ADDRESS. TO THE BRITISH COLONISTS IN NORTH AMERICA

A. LETTER. TO. THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND S. PERY. SPEAKER OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS, IN RELATION TO. A BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF IRELAND. JULY 18, 1778

NOTE

LETTER

TWO LETTERS. TO. THOMAS BURGH, ESQ., AND. JOHN MERLOTT, ESQ., IN VINDICATION OF HIS PARLIAMENTARY CONDUCT RELATIVE TO THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND. 1780

LETTER. TO THOMAS BURGH, ESQ.14

LETTER. TO JOHN MERLOTT, ESQ.19

LETTERS AND REFLECTIONS. ON THE. EXECUTIONS OF THE RIOTERS. IN 1780

LETTERS

To the Lord Chancellor

To the Earl Bathurst, Lord President of the Council

To Sir Grey Cooper, Bart.20

SOME THOUGHTS. ON THE APPROACHING EXECUTIONS,

SOME ADDITIONAL REFLECTIONS. ON THE EXECUTIONS

A. LETTER. TO. THE RIGHT HON. HENRY DUNDAS, ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE. WITH THE. SKETCH OF A NEGRO CODE. 1792

SKETCH OF A NEGRO CODE

A. LETTER. TO. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE MEETING, HELD AT AYLESBURY, APRIL 13, 1780, ON THE SUBJECT OF. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM

NOTE

LETTER

FRAGMENTS OF A TRACT. RELATIVE TO. THE LAWS AGAINST POPERY. IN IRELAND

NOTE

TRACT. ON THE POPERY LAWS. THE PLAN

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III. PART I

CHAPTER III. PART II

CHAPTER IV

A. LETTER. TO. WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ., ON THE SUBJECT OF. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. JANUARY 29, 1795

LETTER.23

SECOND LETTER. TO. SIR HERCULES LANGRISHE. ON THE. CATHOLIC QUESTION. MAY 26, 1795

A. LETTER. TO. RICHARD BURKE, ESQ., ON. PROTESTANT ASCENDENCY IN IRELAND. 1793

A. LETTER. ON. THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND. 1797

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My dear sir,—As some prefatory account of the materials which compose this second posthumous volume of the Works of Mr. Burke, and of the causes which have prevented its earlier appearance, will be expected from me, I hope I may be indulged in the inclination I feel to run over these matters in a letter to you, rather than in a formal address to the public.

Of the delay that has intervened since the publication of the former volume I shall first say a few words. Having undertaken, in conjunction with the late Dr. Laurence, to examine the manuscript papers of Mr. Burke, and to select and prepare for the press such of them as should be thought proper for publication, the difficulties attending our coöperation were soon experienced by us. The remoteness of our places of residence in summer, and our professional and other avocations in winter, opposed perpetual obstacles to the progress of our undertaking.

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As to the example to be learnt from the murder of Louis the Sixteenth, if a lesson to kings is not derived from his fate, I do not know whence it can come. The author, however, ought not to have left us in the dark upon that subject, to break our shins over his hints and insinuations. Is it, then, true, that this unfortunate monarch drew his punishment upon himself by his want of moderation, and his oppressing the liberties of which he had found his people in possession? Is not the direct contrary the fact? And is not the example of this Revolution the very reverse of anything which can lead to that softening of character in princes which the author supposes as a security to the people, and has brought forward as a recommendation to fraternity with those who have administered that happy emollient in the murder of their king and the slavery and desolation of their country?

But the author does not confine the benefit of the Regicide lesson to kings alone. He has a diffusive bounty. Nobles, and men of property, will likewise be greatly reformed. They, too, will be led to a review of their social situation and duties,—"and will reflect, that their large allotment of worldly advantages is for the aid and benefit of the whole." Is it, then, from the fate of Juigné, Archbishop of Paris, or of the Cardinal de Rochefoucault, and of so many others, who gave their fortunes, and, I may say, their very beings, to the poor, that the rich are to learn, that their "fortunes are for the aid and benefit of the whole"? I say nothing of the liberal persons of great rank and property, lay and ecclesiastic, men and women, to whom we have had the honor and happiness of affording an asylum: I pass by these, lest I should never have done, or lest I should omit some as deserving as any I might mention. Why will the author, then, suppose that the nobles and men of property in France have been banished, confiscated, and murdered, on account of the savageness and ferocity of their character, and their being tainted with vices beyond those of the same order and description in other countries? No judge of a revolutionary tribunal, with his hands dipped in their blood and his maw gorged with their property, has yet dared to assert what this author has been pleased, by way of a moral lesson, to insinuate.

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