FOURTH LETTER on the PROPOSALS FOR PEACE
To CHARLES JAMES FOX on the AMERICAN WAR
The MEASURES in the AMERICAN CONTEST,

etc.

CONTENTS OF VOL. VI.

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PREFACE TO THE SECOND POSTHUMOUS Volume, in a LET-

TER TO THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM ELLIOT

FOURTH LETTER ON THE PROPOSALS FOR PEACE WITH THE

REGICIDE DIRECTORY OF FRANCE: WITH THE PRELIM-

INARY CORRESPONDENCE

LETTER TO THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA, November 1, 1791

LETTER TO SIR CHARLES BINGHAM, BART., ON THE IRISH

ABSENTEE TAX, October 30, 1773.

1

113

121

LETTER TO THE HON. CHARLES JAMES FOX, ON THE AMER-

ICAN WAR, October 8, 1777

135

LETTER TO THE MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM, WITH AD-

DRESSES TO THE KING, AND THE BRITISH COLONISTS IN

NORTH AMERICA, IN RELATION TO THE MEASURES OF

GOVERNMENT IN THE AMERICAN CONTEST, AND A PRO-

POSED SECESSION OF THE OPPOSITION FROM Parliament,

January, 1777.

LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND S. PERY, IN RE-

LATION TO A BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF THE ROMAN

CATHOLICS OF IRELAND, July 18, 1778.

149

197

Two LETTERS TO THOMAS BURGH, ESQ., AND JOHN MER-

LOTT, ESQ., IN VINDICATION OF HIS PARLIAMENTARY

CONDUCT RELATIVE TO THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND, 1780 207

LETTERS AND REFLECTIONS ON THE EXECUTIONS OF THE

RIOTERS IN 1780

LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. HENRY DUNDAS: WITH THE

SKETCH OF A NEGRO CODE, 1792 .

LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Meeting, held at Aylesbury, APRIL 13, 1780, ON THE

SUBJECT OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM

291

299

FRAGMENTS OF A TRACT RELATIVE TO THE LAWS AGAINST

POPERY IN IRELAND

LETTER TO WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ., ON THE SUBJECT OF

CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION, January 29, 1795

361

375

SECOND LETTER TO SIR HERCULES LANGRIshe, on THE

CATHOLIC QUESTION, May 26, 1795

LETTER TO RICHARD BURKE, ESQ., ON PROTESTANT AS-

CENDENCY IN IRELAND, 1793 .

LETTER ON THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND, 1797

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418

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME SIX

Frederick North, Second Earl of Guilford, K.G. Frontispiece

From a drawing by Nathaniel Dance, R.A., in the National

From a mezzotint in the British Museum, by John Murphy, after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, F.R.A.

Benjamin Franklin.

From a painting by Benjamin West, in the possession of
Thomas Hewson Bache, Esq., Philadelphia.