Sir James Mackintosh

From a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R..A.

ELOQUENCE

WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY

NOTES BY

CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS

WITH A SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME BY

JOHN ALDEN

Videtisne quantum munus sit oratoris historia?

-CICERO, De Oratore, ii., 15

COPYRIGHT, 1884

BY

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

The Knickerbocker Press, New Rochelle, A. Y.

ON HIS REFUSAL to Negotiate with Napoleon Bonaparte;

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 3, 1300.

ON THE REJECTION OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE'S Overtures

OF PEACE; HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 3, 1800.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH

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IN BEHALF OF FREE SPEECH. ON THE TRIAL OF JEAN

PELTIER, ACCUSED OF LIBELLING NAPOLEON Bonaparte;

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEBRUARY 21, 1803.

LORD ERSKINE

LORD ERSKINE

ON THE LIMITATIONS OF FREE SPEECH; Delivered IN 1797

ON THE TRIAL OF WILLIAMS FOR PUBLICATION OF PAINE'S

"AGE OF REASON."