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PREFACE.

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HE following Speech has been much the fubject of converfation; and the defire of having it printed was last summer very general. The means of gratifying the public curiofity were obligingly furnished from the notes of fome Gentlemen, Members of the laft Parliament.

This piece has been for fome months ready for the prefs. But a delicacy, poffibly over fcrupulous, has delayed the publication to this time. The friends of adminiftration have been used to attribute a great deal of the oppofition to their measures in America to the writings published in England. The Editor of this Speech kept it back, until all the meafures of government have had their full operation, and can be no longer affected, if ever they could have been affected, by any publication.

Moft Readers will recollect the uncommon pains taken at the beginning of the last feffion

of the laft Parliament, and indeed during the whole course of it, to afperfe the characters, and decry the measures, of those who were fuppofed to be friends to America; in order to weaken the effect of their oppofition to the acts of rigour then preparing against the Colonies. This Speech contains a full refutation of the charges against that party with which Mr. Burke has all along acted. In doing this, he has taken a review of the effects of all the schemes which have been fucceffively adopted in the government of the Plantations. The fubject is interefting; the matters of information various, and important; and the publication at this time, the Editor hopes, will not be thought unfeasonable.

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