The Speeches of the Right Honorable William Huskisson

THE

SPEECHES

OF THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

WILLIAM HUSKISSON,

WITH A

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR,

SUPPLIED TO THE EDITOR

FROM

AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

"When he first devoted himself to the Public Service, he considered how he should
"render himself fit for it; and this he did by endeavouring to discover what it was that
"gave this country the rank it holds in the world. He found that its prosperity and dignity
"arose principally, if not solely, from two sources; its Constitution and Commerce. Both
"these he spared no study to understand, and no endeavour to support."

Mr. Burke's Speech at Bristol, in 1774.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXXXI.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY J. L. COX, GREAT QUEEN STREET,

Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

CONTENTS.

1817.

July 9. Mr. Tierney's Resolutions relating to the State