1829. Feb. 6. Address on the King's Speech at the opening Page 384 19. 405 Irish Qualification of Freeholder's Bill Mr. Fyler's Motion for a Select Committee on May 5. East Retford Disfranchisement Bill-Repre- 7. Mr. Villiers Stuart's Motion respecting the Pro- 423 438 14. Mr. Whitmore's Motion for a Select Committee 446 Sir James Mackintosh's Motion concerning the Relations between England and Portugal Distress of the Labouring Classes - Coloniza- 457 470 Feb. 4. Address on the King's Speech at the opening 474 9. East-India Company's Charter-and Bank of 478 1829. Page 552 Apr. 28. Mr. Charles Grant's Motion respecting the 556 15. State of the Commercial Relations between 21. Mr. Huskisson's Motion for the reduction of 24. Court of Chancery-Suits in Equity Bill 587 589 595 613 615 622 627 No. I. Prospectus du " Journal de la Société de 1789." II. Discours prononcé par M. Huskisson, Anglois et Mem- bre de la Société de 1789, à la Séance de cette III. Speech at the Liverpool Election, February 14, 1823. IV. Speech at the Public Dinner, given to him, in the Council Chamber, Chichester, the 3d of April 1823. V. Speech at the Public Meeting, held at Freemason's Hall, on the 18th June 1824, for erecting a Monu- A WISH has been very generally expressed, that a Life of Mr. Huskisson should be undertaken, which might embrace in a single view all the changes and improvements which have taken place of late years, in the Commercial Policy, not only of Great Britain, but of other countries, and which might exhibit the progress, and explain the advantages, of a System with which his name has become, as it were, identified. But to the adequate performance of such a task many obstacles presented themselves. Although the belief in the wisdom of clinging to the prohibitive system is gradually yielding to the experience of the benefits arising from an altered policy, nevertheless the disposition to look back upon that system with complacency or regret, is still so rooted, both in this country and on the continent, that any attempt to defend the sagacity, or to prove the necessity, of departing from it, might appear to solicit a controversy, which it is far from the intention of this work to provoke. There is still another objection to entering largely, at the present moment, upon a review of the policy, which has latterly guided the commercial legislation of this country. Although England has proclaimed her recognition of the principle of commercial freedom, |