TABLE OF CONTENTS Page. Mr. Grattan informs the House that an Association was Mr. Grattan's Reply to the Attorney-general, on the Pow- Sir Henry Cavendish's Reply to Mr. Grattan, do. Mr. Grattan's Reply to Sir Henry Cavendish, do. Mr. Grattan's Speech on his celebrated Resolution "That the King, Lords, and Commons of Ireland The Right Honorable Hussy Burgh's Amendment, do.. Mr. Grattan's Speech on the Mutiny-bill, 13th Nov. 1781 The Dungannon Resolutions, 15th Feb. 1782. Mr. Grattan's Speech on Mr. Gardiner's Bill for the Re- Mr. John Hely Hutchinson communicates the Duke of Ixxxix xeii Page. 23 Prefatory Observations to the Debate on Orde's Propositions. 1 Prefatory Observations to the Debate on National Economy 61 Mr. Grattan's Speech on do. Prefatory Observations to the Debate on Pensions Mr. Curran's Speech on do. Mr. Grattan's Speech on do. Mr. Gratten's Speech on do. Prefatory Observations to the Debate on Tythes. Mr. Curran's Reply to the Attorney-general Mr. Grattan's Speech on the Principles of the Opposition 398 . 403 INTRODUCTION. WHEN the Editor of MR. GRATTAN'S Speeches first entertained the idea of collecting and compiling the eloquence of his distinguished countryman, he was influenced by two considerations to the prosecution of so important and national a work. The first, that the present circumstances under which his Country was placed, required more than ever the general diffusion of those principles which first tended to promote the happiness and prosperity of Ireland-The second, that he conceived he would add, in a great and eminent degree, to the many valuable works of this kind which are daily issuing from the Press, and gratify that taste for eloquence which has been so much the object of every man's attainment and ambition. The only claim which the Editor of this Volume has to public patronage is, that he has spared no labour in endeavouring to give to the public the most faithful reports of the Speeches which he has collected-and that he has diligently examined the various records where the best and most faithful reports could be found.-That he has made every effort to do justice to the splendid talents of Mr. GRATTAN, by an attentive comparison of those reports, will perhaps be acknowledged by such readers, who have been witnesses of the great exertions of our Orator; exertions which now constitute a new era in English eloquence. In collecting the productions of that mind which so eloquently poured forth its treasures-in compiling, with industry and care, the labours of that man, whose talents raised his Country from slavery to freedom, the Editor hopes, if he shall not enjoy the praise, he may at least escape the severity, of the Critic; and that he shall have gratified the friend of literature, and the man of taste, the admirer of genius, and the advocate of liberal principles and enlightened legislation, by rescuing the Speeches of Mr. GRATTAN from the mouldering records of Newspapers, and the widely extended surface of Parliamentary debates; and it is a debt which the Editor owes to the fame of this distinguished Senator, to state, that those and similar records, are the only sources from which he has taken the Speeches now given to the public. It will now be necessary to state those reasons which influenced the Editor to com |