The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with a biographical and critical introduction, by Henry Rogers, and portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds

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THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE, with A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION, BY HENRY ROGERS AND PORTRAIT AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS VOL. II LONDON SAMUEL HOLDSWORTH, AMEN CORNER, PATERNOSTER ROW MDCCCXXXVI BUNGAY: PRINTED BY J. R. AND C. CHILDS. CONTENTS VOL. II PAGE Part 11. Designs of Mr. Hastings to ruin the Rajah of Benares 96 m. Expulsion of the Rajah of Benares - - -100 iv. Second Revolution in Benares - 108 v. Third Revolution in Benares ----- no IV. Princesses of Oude 115 Letters, from her Excellency the Bhow Begum to Mr. Bristow, resident at the Vizier's Court ;— from Colonel Hannay to Jewar Ally Cawn and Bahar Ally Cawn :— Address from Colonel Hannay to the Begum;— from Mr. Gordon to the Begum:— Letter to Mohammed Jewar Ally Cawn and Bahar Ally Cawn, from Mr. Gordon ;— from Colonel Hannay to Jewar Ally Cawn and Bahar Ally Cawn 133 V. Revolutions in Farruckabad 13.5 VI.

Destruction of the Rajah of Sahlone - - - - 140 VII. Contracts 141 VIII. Presents 14T IX. Resignation of the Office of Governour-General - 153 X. Surgeon-General's Contract ------ 158 XI. Contracts for Poolbundy Repairs - - - - ib. XII. Contracts for Opium ------- 159 XIII. Appointment of R. J. Sullivan - - - - - 161 XIV. Rannaof Gohud 162 XV. Revenues - 164 XVI. Misdemeanours in Oude - 169 XVII. Mahommed Reza Khan ------ 194 XVIII. The Mogul delivered up to the Mahrattas - - 201 XIX. Libel on the Court of Directors - - - -209 XX. Mahratta War, and Peace 212 XXI. Correspondence 221 XXII. Rights of Fyzoola Khan, &c. before the Treaty of Lall-Dang ib. Rights of Fyzoola Khan, under the Treaty of Lall-Dang 223 Guarantee of the Treaty of Lall-Dang - - - - 224 Thanks of the Board to Fyzoola Khan - - - - 227 Demand of Five Thousand Horse ----- i6.

Treaty of Chunar 230 Consequences of the Treaty of Chunar - - - 232 Pecuniary Commutation of the stipulated Aid - -233 Full Vindication of Fyzoola Khan, by Major Palmer and Mr. Hastings 23.5 PAGE Ninth Report from the Select Committee (of the House of Commons) appointed to take into Consideration the State ofthe Administration of Justice in the Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa.— &c— (25 June 1783.) I. Observations on the State of the Company's Affairs in India 1 II. Connexion of Great Britain with India - - - 12 III. Effect of the Revenue Investment on the Company - 16 Internal Trade of Bengal 21 Silk 24 Raw Silk - 25 Cloths or Piece-Goods 28 Opium - 33 Salt - - - - . 40 Saltpetre - 48 British Government in India ------ 49 Eleventh Report from the Select Committee appointed to take into Consideration the State of the Administration of Justice in the Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa.— &c.-(1783) - - - 61 The first nine numbers of Appendix B. to the above Report ; viz. Appendix B. No. 1.

Book I

Letter to the Marquis of Rockingham, dated January 1777; on a proposed Secession from Parliament of Members, who had opposed the American War 392 Chap. i. Causes ofthe Connexion between the Romans and Britains. — Cæsar's two Invasions of Britain - - -503 II. Some Account ofthe ancient Inhabitants ofBritain - 506 III. The Reduction of Britain by the Romans - - -512 A proposed Address to the King, on the same subject - - 395 iv. The Fall of the Roman Power in Britain - - - 51S Address to the British Colonists in North America - -401

Book II

Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Perry, Speaker of the House of Commons of Ireland, dated July 1778; on a Bill for the Relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholick Subjects in Ireland .-_..____ 405 Chap. i. The Entry and Settlement ofthe Saxons, and their Conversion to Christianity 522 II. Establishment of Christianity— of Monastick Institutions—and of their Effects .-,-__ 526 Letter to Thomas Burgh, Esq. dated New- Year's Day 1780; in Vindication ofthe Author's Parliamentary Conduct, relative to the Affairs of Ireland ------ -407 Hi. Series of Anglo-Saxon Kings from Ethelbert to Alfred ; with the Invasion of the Danes ----- 530 iv. Reign of King Alfred ------- 532 v. Succession of Kings from Alfred to Harold - - - 534 Letter to John Merlott, Esq. an eminent Merchant of Bristol, dated April 1780 ; on the same subject as the preceding Letter 414 vi.

Harold.— Invasion of the Normans— Account of that People, and of the State of England at the time of the Invasion ----- 537 Letters (to the Lord Chancellor, to the Earl Bathurst, and to Sir Grey Cooper) with Reflections on the Executions of the Rioters in 1780 416 vn. Of the Laws and Institutions of the Saxons - -540