Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914

Volume 1: 1776-1840

Acknowledgements

Editorial Principle

Chronology

General Introduction

Volume 1 Introduction

1. Adam Smith and Lord North Report

2. Letter of 'Remark' on Adam Smith

3. Extract from a speech by the Earl of Shelburne

4. Extracts from Duke of Rutland to William Pitt, 16 June 1784

5. William Pitt to Duke of Rutland, 4 December 1784

6. Charles James Fox, speech of 24 May 1785

7. The Commercial Treaty. A New Ballad, from France

8. French Treaty

9. Charles James Fox, speech at the King's Speech on Opening the Session, 23 January 1787

10. General Chamber of Manufacturers of Great Britain

11. Editorial on French Treaty,

12. Lord Sheffield to William Eden, 11 February 1787, William Eden to Lord Sheffield, February 1787, Josiah Wedgwood to Lord Auckland, 16 June 1787

13. Abridgment of the State of Politicks this Week

14. Extract from William Edward Hartpole Lecky History of England in the Eighteenth Century

15. France: National Convention, 31 December 1792

16. Lord Sheffield to Lord Auckland, 5 February 1793

17. Protest of Lords on War with France

18. Lord Glastonbury to William Pitt, 12 March 1799

19. Charles Maurice Talleyrand to Charles James Fox, 1 April 1806 and Charles James Fox to Charles Maurice Talleyrand, 8 April 1806

20. Extract from Diary of Thomas Handasyde Baxter, 1810-11

21. Editorial for Orders in Council; Petition for withdrawing the Orders in Council & Copy of Resolutions inclosed in the letter to the Mayor

22. Declaration of Prince Regent against French Decrees of Berlin and Milan and on Orders in Council, 21 April 1812

23. Orders in Council Editorial, Leeds Mercury, 11 July 1812

24. Extract from W. Cunningham, The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times: laissez faire

25. Criticus, 'Parliamentary Criticism: Lord Holland',

26. Resolutions of Committee of Whole House on the State of the Corn Laws (1815)

27. Extracts from The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1802-1817

28. Letters of Francis Horner to his father, 30 January 1815, to Lord Murray, 3 March 1815, and to Henry Hallam, 14 October 1816

29. 'On the Freedom of Trade'

30. 'Lord John Russell'

31. Extract from Memoir of John Charles, Viscount Althorp, third Earl Spencer

32. George Canning to the Earl of Liverpool, 12 September 1825

33. 'To Mr. Huskisson'

34. Correspondence between Kirkman Finlay, John Gladstone, and William Huskisson, March 1826,

35. The Right Hon. W. Huskisson; Free Trade

36. Editorial on Mr. Huskisson and Free Trade

37. James Silk Buckingham, 'The East India Company's Charter, and the trade to India and China'

38. Extract from the diary of Thomas Handasyde Baxter, 18 September 1830

39. Speeches of Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Seagrave, Earl of Radnor, and Earl of Carnarvon, Parliamentary Reform - Bill for England

40. 'Reform and Free Trade', 'The Corn Laws', and 'A Warwickshire Farmer'

41. 'To Our Readers',

42. 'Difficulties of the Commission', Commercial Relations between France and Great Britain by G. Villiers and J. Bowring; Viscount Melbourne to Thomas Spring Rice, 20 September 1835

43. Henry Cockburn on Manufacturing, 2 April 1835

44. [Thomas Dick], 'The Corn Laws'

45. Election addresses of Sir John Gladstone and Henry Parnell to the electors of Dundee

46. Charles Pelham Villiers to Joseph Sturge, 15 August 1838 and Henry Brougham to Joseph Sturge, 29 September 1838

47. Lord Brougham to William Weir, Chairman of Glasgow Anti-Corn Law Association, 2 October 1838

48. Lord Melbourne to Lord John Russell, 29 December 1838

49. Richard Cobden to William Tait, 9 January 1839

50. Minutes of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, 2 & 16 January 1839; 'Abolition of the Corn Laws'

51. Lord Melbourne to Lord John Russell, 18 & 20 January 1839

52. 'The Corn Laws and the Chartists of Birmingham'; 'The Farce of Petitioning the House'

53. Richard Cobden to Charles Pelham Villiers, 3 March 1839

54. Richard Cobden to John Norton, 5 April 1839

55. Thomas Campbell to Archibald Campbell, 27 September 1839

56. Richard Cobden to Henry Coppock. 12 September 1840

57. Richard Cobden to William Beadon, 19 November 1840 and 24 December 1840

Biography

Bibliography

Index