THE

WORKS

AND

CORRESPONDENCE

OF

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

EDMUND BURKE.

A New Edition.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

LONDON:

FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE.

1852.

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CONTENTS

OF

VOL. V.

Heads for Consideration on the Present State of Affairs. Written in

November, 1792

Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with respect to France. Begun in

October, 1793

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1

17

Observations on the Conduct of the Minority, particularly in the Last

Session of Parliament; addressed to the Duke of Portland and Lord

Fitzwilliam. 1793

69

Letter to William Elliot, Esq., occasioned by the Account given in a News-

paper of the Speech made in the House of Lords by the

in the Debate concerning Lord Fitzwilliam. 1795 .

Preface to the Address of M. Brissot to his Constituents. Translated by the

late William Burke, Esq. 1794 .

137

153

179

213

Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. Originally presented to the Right Hon.

William Pitt, in the month of November, 1795

A Letter to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks made upon Mr. Burke and his

Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of

Lauderdale, early in the Present Sessions of Parliament. 1796

Three Letters addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the

Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. 1796 .

Letter IV. on a Regicide Peace, addressed to the Earl Fitzwilliam

A Letter to the Empress of Russia. 1791

A Letter to Sir Charles Bingham, Bart., on the Irish Absentee Tax.

A Letter to the Honourable Charles James Fox.

A Letter to the Marquis of Rockingham. 1777

1777

Letters and Reflections on the Executions of the Rioters in 1780

A Letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, with the Sketch of a Negro

Code. 1792

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