PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1901 DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT: (L. S.) BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the first day of August, in the thirty-second year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1807, Nathaniel Chapman, M. D. of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words following, to wit: "SELECT SPEECHES, Forensick and Parliamentary, with prefatory remarks. By N. Chapman, M. D. honorary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and member of the American Philosophical Society, &c. &c. -Pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem 6 In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. ΤΟ JOSEPH DENNIE, ESQUIRE, WHOSE PRINCIPLES ARE AS STEDFAST, AS THEY ARE KNOWN TO BE CATHOLICK, AND WHOSE VIRTUE IS AS PURE AS HIS GENIUS IS CONFESSEDLY SPLENDID, THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO RECORD THE ELOQUENCE OF MODERN TIMES, IS INSCRIBED. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME Page. LORD CHATHAM'S Speech in the house of lords, on a motion made by the Duke of Richmond, on the 2d of November, 1770, calling on the ministry for certain Mr. Burke's Speech, on American taxation, delivered in the house of commons, April 19th, 1774. Lord Chatham's Speech, delivered in the house of lords, January the 9th, 1770, in reply to lord Mansfield, on an amendment to the address to the throne, Mr. Burke's Speech, on moving his resolutions for con- Lord Chesterfield's Speech, on the bill introduced into the house of lords, May 24th, 1737, for licensing and Lord Chatham's Speech, in the house of lords, on the 22d of January, 1770, on a motion of lord Rockingham, to inquire into the state of the nation, Lord Chatham's Speech, on the bill authorizing the quar- tering of British soldiers on the inhabitants of Boston, 219 Lord Chatham's Speech, in the house of lords, January 20th, 1775, on a motion for an address to his majesty, to give immediate orders for removing his troops from The Speech of William Pitt, the elder, in the house of commons, January 16, 1766, on the address to the The Speech of Lord Mansfield, in the house of lords, in Lord Mansfield's Speech, in the house of lords, May 8th Lord Chesterfield's second Speech on the gin act, Feb. 295 Speech of Sir Robert Walpole, on a motion to repeal |