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THE
SPEECHES
OF THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.
With a Sketch of his Life.
EDITED BY
A CONSTITUTIONAL FRIEND.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
JOHN LEIGHTON, PRINTER,
JOHNSON'S COURT, FLEET STREET,
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
APRIL 19.-Ways and Means....
21.-Expenditure of the Public Money in the Ordnance Department
23.-Duties on Post-horses
30.-Excise Duties on Tobacco..
-Post-Horse Farming Bill
MAY 3.-Affairs of the East India Company.
10.-Sir Benjamin Hammet's Motion Belative to the Sentences of
Burning Women Convicted of Certain Crimes
-Loan to the East India Company
-Supply
11.-Post-Horse Duty Bill
-Trade to Nootka Sound
-Mr. Hastings's Trial.
14.-Exchequer Bills Lent to the East-India Company
17.-Six Weeks' Licence Bill
26.-Tontines.
28.-Tontine Bill .......
JUNE 2.-Tontine Bill...
DECEMBER 15-Ways and Means.
16.-Ways and Means....
21.—Additional Duty on Malt Bill
MARCH 22, 1791.-Bill Relative to Unreceived Dividends
APRIL 1.-Corn Regulation Bill ..........
11.-Finance Committee
12.-Mr. Grey's Motion against any Interference in the War be-
tween Russia and the Porte..
21.-Quebec Bill...
MAY 18.-Ways and Means
23.-Report of the Committee of Finance
27.-Royal Burghs of Scotland.
30.-Report of the Committee of Finance of 1786
JUNE 2.-Sums Voted for Carlton House
3.-Report of the Select Committee Appointed to Examine the Seve-
ral Papers Relating to the Public Income and Expenditure
6.-Report of the Finance Committee of 1791.
7.—Report of the Finance Committee of 1791
8.-Report of the Finance Committee of 1791.
--Sums voted for Carlton House..
FEBRUARY 17, 1792.-State of the Public Income and Expenditure.
24. Report from the Committee of Supply.
29.-Armament against Russia
MARCH 26.-Royal Burghs of Scotland...
-Report of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests
APRIL 4.-Lottery Bill
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5. Royal Burghs in Scotland
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17.-Bill for Regulating the Office of Justice of the Peace for such Part of the County of Middlesex as lies in and near the Metropolis.. 103
......
APRIL 18.-Royal Burghs in Scotland
30.-Royal Burghs in Scotland .....
-Parliamentary Reform
104
120
121
DECEMBER 13.-Address on the King's Speech at the Opening of the Session 129
14.-Address on the King's Speech.....
15. Mr. Fox's Motion for Sending a Minister to Paris to Treat with
the Provisional Government of France
-Motion by Mr. Grey, for Papers received from Agents of the
18. Mr. Fox's Resolution against the War with France.
20.-Nottingham Petition for Parliamentary Reform....
25.-Sedition...
MARCH 4.-Mr. Sheridan's Motion Relative to the Existence of Seditious
APRIL 4.-Traitorous Correspondence Bill
16. Lord Auckland's Memorial to the States-General
18. Lord Auckland's Memorial to the States-General
25.-Lord Auckland's Memorial to the States-General
-Translation
30.-State of Commercial Credit
MAY 2.-Sheffield Petition for a Parliamentary Reform.
3.-Petitions for Parliamentary Reform
-Liverpool Credit Bill
Commercial Credit Bill.
7. Mr. Grey's Motion for a Parliamentary Reform
16.-East India Annuities Bill
17.-Board of Agriculture
-Bill for Regulating the Government of Trade
24.-Bill for Regulating the Government and Trade of India
28. Revenue Bills....
-Proceedings against Mr. Hastings
JUNE 6.-Proceedings against Mr. Hastings..
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-Mr. Courtenay's Motion, "That there be laid before this House
the Returns of Small Arms and Army Stores that were at the Tower
on the First of January, 1781."....
..... 242
12.-Libel on the Managers of the Prosecution of Mr. Hastings..... ib.
JANUARY 21, 1794.-Address on the King's Speech at the Opening of the
Session
243
JANUARY 27.-Hessian Troops and Ministerial Jobs
276
28. Mr. Sheridan's Motion for Papers containing the Estimate of
Commissions since the War, for the purpose of forming a charge against
Ministers...