Uniform with British Orations AMERICAN ORATIONS, to illustrate American Political History, edited, with introductions, by ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy in the College of New Jersey. 3 vols., 16 mo, $3.75. PROSE MASTERPIECES FROM MODERN ESSAYISTS, comprising single specimen essays from IRVING, LEIGH HUNT, LAMB, DE QUINCEY, LANDOR, SYDNEY SMITH, THACKERAY, EMERSON, ARNOLD, MORLEY, HELPS, KINGSLEY, RUSKIN, LOWELL, CARLYLE, MACAULAY, FROUDE, FREEMAN, GLADSTONE, NEWMAN, LESLIE STEPHEN. 3 vols., 16 mo, bevelled boards, $3.75 and $4.50. G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON REPRESENTATIVE BRITISH ORATIONS WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES BY CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS _Videtisne quantum munus sit oratoris historia?_ —CICERO, _DeOratore_, ii, 15 ✩✩ NEW YORK & LONDON G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS The Knickerbocker Press 1884 COPYRIGHT G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS 1884. Press of G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS New York CONTENTS. PAGE WILLIAM PITT 1 WILLIAM PITT 19 ON HIS REFUSAL TO NEGOTIATE WITH NAPOLEON BONAPARTE; HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 3, 1800. CHARLES JAMES FOX 99 CHARLES JAMES FOX 108 ON THE REJECTION OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE’S OVERTURES OF PEACE; HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 3, 1800. SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH 176 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH 185 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 262 LORD ERSKINE 273 ON THE LIMITATIONS OF FREE SPEECH; DELIVERED IN 1797 ON THE TRIAL OF WILLIAMS FOR PUBLICATION OF PAINE’S “AGE OF REASON.” WILLIAM PITT.