Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ [Illustration] _ESSAY AND SPEECH ON JEWISH DISABILITIES_ BY LORD MACAULAY EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY ISRAEL ABRAHAMS, M.A. AND THE REV. S. LEVY, M.A. _Second Edition_ Printed for the _Jewish Historical Society of England By_ BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. EDINBURGH 1910 _NOTE_ _The authors and editors of all volumes published by the Jewish Historical Society of England accept full and sole responsibility for the views expressed by them._ CONTENTS PAGE EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION 7 MACAULAY’S ESSAY 19 MACAULAY’S SPEECH 42 EDITORS’ NOTES 63 ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAIT OF MACAULAY _Frontispiece_ The frontispiece is a reduced photograph of the portrait by Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A. The original is in the National Portrait Gallery, London (No. 453). MACAULAY’S AUTOGRAPH _To face page 62_ A facsimile reproduction of Macaulay’s signature at the end of a letter to Macvey Napier, Editor of the _Edinburgh Review_, dated 10th Feb. 1839. The original is in the British Museum (Add. MS. 34,620 f. 83 b). INTRODUCTION The first edition of this reprint of Macaulay’s famous essay and speech on the removal of Jewish disabilities was timed for publication on December 28, 1909, the fiftieth anniversary of their author’s death. It was intended to serve a double object. In the first place, it was a tribute to the memory of Macaulay in grateful recognition of his strenuous advocacy of the cause of Jewish emancipation; and in the second place, it was designed to be a further memento of the celebration organised by the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1908, on the occasion of the jubilee of the admission of Jews into Parliament.