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A Review Of The Life And Writings Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke.
to the Minister , even when his conduct was meritorious . When Lord North proposed a commercial system fully consonant to the wishes of the Irish , he , though lit ; did not oppose it in the senate , did not speak in its favour . The Irish received Lord North ' s plan with the wannest gratitude and applause , and censured Burke and the other leading members of Opposition for giving only a silent
acquiescence to the resolutions in favour of Ireland , instead of supporting them by the force of their eloquence . Burke wrote a letter to his friends in Ireland , in vindication of his own conduct , and that of the other gentlemen , who opposed the generabmeasures of Administration . He represented tlie Minister ' s conduct as not the effect of choice , but of compulsion . This representation does not appear ,
from the history of the times , to be just . Groundlessly to assign bad motives to good actions is , in private life , uncandid ; in public , -tends to lessen the respect due to Government . Lord North , no doubt , frequently deserved censure , but did not always . A constant , indiscriminate blame of the Minister could not be the result of cool , impaitial judgment , as the Minister was not always blameabie . His perpetual invectives against Administration , therefore , must . be considered as a defect in the political conduct of Edmund Burke ,
' Who , born for the universe , narrow'd his mind , And to parly gave up what was meant for ¦ mankinds His Reform-bill was negatived the first session that it was moved : the following year he again proposed it , and it was a second time , thrown out . The accumulation of taxesand the destruction of our last hope in
, America , in the capture of the brave Comwallis and his army , roused the alarm of the country gentlemen , by whose support the Minister had been so long able to withstand the eloquence of a Dunning , a Burke , and a Fox . These gentlemen succeeded at last in procuring a decisive majority against Lord North . He resigned , and the opposite party were appointed to the several offices of
administration . In reviewing the conduct of Burke , a careful examiner will perceive a very considerable difference between the speeches he made in supporting the motions of his own and . of others , between the children of his adoption and of his generation : —those of his adoption resembled the party , those of his generation resembled himself . His speeches in attacking SandwichPalliserGermaineand North
, , , , were strongly tinctured with the partisanship of Opposition . His speeches on ' American Taxation , ' ' Reconciliation with America , ' and ' Public Oeconomy , ' were not the speeches of party , but of Edmund Burke . Besides his own exertions during the American war , he had a considerable share in forming the oratorial character of another extraordinary man . ¦
From the commencement of Fox ' s political career till his dereliction of Lord North , we see in his eloquence vast capacity ; but , hitherto , more capacity than fulness . We see energetic reasoning , but not that variety and abundance of profound observations and just
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A Review Of The Life And Writings Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke.
to the Minister , even when his conduct was meritorious . When Lord North proposed a commercial system fully consonant to the wishes of the Irish , he , though lit ; did not oppose it in the senate , did not speak in its favour . The Irish received Lord North ' s plan with the wannest gratitude and applause , and censured Burke and the other leading members of Opposition for giving only a silent
acquiescence to the resolutions in favour of Ireland , instead of supporting them by the force of their eloquence . Burke wrote a letter to his friends in Ireland , in vindication of his own conduct , and that of the other gentlemen , who opposed the generabmeasures of Administration . He represented tlie Minister ' s conduct as not the effect of choice , but of compulsion . This representation does not appear ,
from the history of the times , to be just . Groundlessly to assign bad motives to good actions is , in private life , uncandid ; in public , -tends to lessen the respect due to Government . Lord North , no doubt , frequently deserved censure , but did not always . A constant , indiscriminate blame of the Minister could not be the result of cool , impaitial judgment , as the Minister was not always blameabie . His perpetual invectives against Administration , therefore , must . be considered as a defect in the political conduct of Edmund Burke ,
' Who , born for the universe , narrow'd his mind , And to parly gave up what was meant for ¦ mankinds His Reform-bill was negatived the first session that it was moved : the following year he again proposed it , and it was a second time , thrown out . The accumulation of taxesand the destruction of our last hope in
, America , in the capture of the brave Comwallis and his army , roused the alarm of the country gentlemen , by whose support the Minister had been so long able to withstand the eloquence of a Dunning , a Burke , and a Fox . These gentlemen succeeded at last in procuring a decisive majority against Lord North . He resigned , and the opposite party were appointed to the several offices of
administration . In reviewing the conduct of Burke , a careful examiner will perceive a very considerable difference between the speeches he made in supporting the motions of his own and . of others , between the children of his adoption and of his generation : —those of his adoption resembled the party , those of his generation resembled himself . His speeches in attacking SandwichPalliserGermaineand North
, , , , were strongly tinctured with the partisanship of Opposition . His speeches on ' American Taxation , ' ' Reconciliation with America , ' and ' Public Oeconomy , ' were not the speeches of party , but of Edmund Burke . Besides his own exertions during the American war , he had a considerable share in forming the oratorial character of another extraordinary man . ¦
From the commencement of Fox ' s political career till his dereliction of Lord North , we see in his eloquence vast capacity ; but , hitherto , more capacity than fulness . We see energetic reasoning , but not that variety and abundance of profound observations and just