Name: Romanticism & Politics 1789-1832:Volume 5
ISBN: 9780429349461

Book

ABSTRACT

First published in 2006. A collection of five volumes containing, letters, text excerpts and papers illustrating Romanticism and Politics from 1789 to 1832. Volume 5 covers Religious Reform, Foreign Policy, Colonial Politics and the Slavery Debate.

part 11|88 pages

Religious Reform

chapter 121|8 pages

Extract from The Right of Protestant Dissenters to a Compleat Toleration Asserted; Containing a Historical Account of the Test Laws, . . . with an Answer to the Objection from the Act of Union with Scotland, By a Layman, 2nd edn, London, 1789, pp. 92–99

chapter 122|21 pages

Extract from Bishop Sherlock’s Arguments against a Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts: wherein most of the Pleas Advanced in a Paper now Circulating, styled the Cause of Protestant Dissenters, &c. are discussed, Oxford, 1790, pp. 1–21

chapter 123|28 pages

An Address to the Dissidents of England on their Late Defeat, London, 1790

chapter 124|5 pages

Extract from Thoughts on the Riots at Birmingham. By a Welsh Freeholder, Bath, 1791, pp. 5–9.

chapter 125|5 pages

‘On Religious Liberty’, from The Patriot: or Political, Moral and Philosophical Repository . . . By a Society of Gentlemen, London, 1792, pp. 438–442

To the Editors of the Patriot.

chapter 126|4 pages

Extract from Letters on the Subject of the Catholics to my Brother Abraham who lives in the Country. By Peter Plymley, 11th edn, London, 1808, pp. 9–12

chapter 127|4 pages

Extract from Address of the Protestant Union, for the Defence and Support of the Protestant Religion and the British Constitution, as Established at the Glorious Revolution in 1688, London, 1813, pp. 1–4

chapter 128|4 pages

Extract from A History of the Protestant ‘Reformation’ in England and Ireland, showing how that Event has Impoverished and Degraded the Main Body of the People in those Countries, in a Series of Letters Addressed to all Sensible and Just Englishmen, London, 1824, pp. 3–6

chapter 129|4 pages

‘Address on the King’s Speech’, from Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 2nd series, London, 1829, Vol. XX, pp. 13–22

part 12|84 pages

Foreign Policy

chapter 130|20 pages

Extract from A Narrative of the Expedition to Egypt, under Sir Ralph Abercombie; Containing an Exposition of the Principles and Conduct of Napoleone Buonaparte, London, 1803, pp. 1–20

chapter 131|6 pages

Extract from The Importance of Malta Considered in 1796 and 1798; also Remarks which Occurred during a Journey from England to India, through Egypt; in the Year 1779, London, 1803, pp. 5–10

chapter 132|17 pages

Extract from Travels in China: Containing Descriptions, Observations and Comparisons made and collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey Through the Country from Pekin to Canton, London, 1804, pp. 191-207

chapter 133|15 pages

Extract from An Inquiry into the State of the Nation at the Commencement of the Present Administration, 3rd edn, London, 1806, pp. 205–219

chapter 134|6 pages

Extract from Correspondence between Mr. Secretary Canning, and the Hon. D. Erskine. As Printed and Laid Before the House of Lords, London, 1810, pp. 12–17

chapter 135|7 pages

Extract from On the State of Europe in January 1816, London, 1816, pp. 127–133

chapter 136|8 pages

Extracts from Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Courts of Siam and Cochin China; Exhibiting a View of the Actual State of those Kingdoms, London, 1828, pp. 310–314, 595–596

part 13|132 pages

Colonial Politics

chapter 137|4 pages

‘May 4, 1789. Petition of Mr. Hastings’, from Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. (Several Corrected by Himself.) Edited by a Constitutional Friend, 5 vols, London, 1816, Vol. II, pp. 185–188

chapter 138|8 pages

‘Dedication to the King’, from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 5 vols, London, 1790, Vol. I

chapter 139|11 pages

Extract from The Present State of Hudson’s Bay. Containing a Full Description of that Settlement and Likewise of the Fur Trade, . . . to which are added, Remarks and Observations . . . and a Journal of a Journey from Montreal to New York, London, 1790, pp. 95–105

chapter 140|11 pages

Extract from The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1791, London, 1795, pp. 81–91

chapter 141|2 pages

‘The Blessed Efforts of the System of Colonization’, from The Tribune, 3 vols, London, 1795–1796, Vol I, pp. 76–77

chapter 142|11 pages

‘May 25, 1799. At a General Meeting of the Society Instituted for the Purpose of Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa’, from African Researches: or Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa, London, 1802, Vol II. pp. 1–11

chapter 143|16 pages

Extract from An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from Its First Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks of the Dispositions, Customs, Manners &c. of the Native Inhabitants of the Country, London, 1804, pp. 6–20

chapter 144|4 pages

Extract from ‘Transactions of the Missionary Society’, The Annual Review, 3, 2 (1805): 621–623

chapter 145|8 pages

Extract from A Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Buckinghamshire, President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, on the Subject of an Open Trade to India, London, 1813, pp. 13–20

chapter 146|13 pages

Extracts from A Treatise on the Wealth, Power, and Resources of the British Empire in Every Quarter of the World, including the East Indies, London, 1815, pp. 87–88, 311–315, 378–380, 390–392

chapter 147|9 pages

Extract from The History of British India, 3 vols, London, 1817, Vol. III, pp. 634–642

chapter 148|3 pages

Extract from The Spirit of Despotism. Dedicated to Lord Castlereagh, London, 1821, pp. 8–10

chapter 149|24 pages

Extract from Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the Years 1824–1825, London, 1826, pp. 52–75

part 14|106 pages

Slavery Debate

chapter 150|7 pages

Extract from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself, London, 1789, pp. 90–96

chapter 151|7 pages

Extract from The Speech of Mr Wilberforce Esq. Representative for the County of York, on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1789, on the Question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, London, 1789, pp. 12–18

chapter 152|3 pages

Extract from The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, 2 vols, London, 1793, Vol. II, pp. 34–36

chapter 153|10 pages

On the Slave Trade

chapter 154|13 pages

Extract from An Inquiry into the Colonial Policy of the European Powers, 2 vols, Edinburgh, 1803, Vol. I, pp. 445–457

chapter 155|2 pages

‘Slave Trade’, Cobbett’s Political Register, 6 (18 August 1804): 231–233

chapter 156|15 pages

Extract from A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Addressed to the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of Yorkshire, London, 1807, pp. 54–68

chapter 157|4 pages

‘March 17, 1807. Abolition of Slavery’, from Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. (Several Corrected by Himself.) Edited by a Constitutional Friend, 5 vols, London, 1816, Vol. V, pp. 327–330

Lord Percy moved for leave to bring in a bill for the gradual abolition of slavery in the West Indies.

chapter 158|7 pages

Extract from Thoughts on the Necessity for Improving the Conditions of the Slaves in the British Colonies with a View to their Ultimate Emancipation, London, 1823, pp. 1–7

chapter 159|12 pages

Extract from Anti-Negro Emancipation. An Appeal to Mr. Wilberforce, London, 1824, pp. 3–14

chapter 160|9 pages

Extracts from Joanna, or the Female Slave. A West Indian Tale. Founded on Stedman’s Narrative of an Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, London, 1824, pp. 46–51, 54–56

chapter 161|3 pages

Extract from The Speech of the Rt. Hon. George Canning in the House of Commons on the 16th Day of March 1824, London, 1824, pp. 6–8

chapter 162|4 pages

Extract from England Enslaved by Her Own Colonies: An Address to the Electors and People of the United Kingdom, London, 1826, pp. 88–91

Romanticism & Politics 1789-1832