CONTENTS.

VOL, V.

Page

INTRODUCTORY LETTER to the Right Hon. William Elliot,

Letters on a Regicide Peace, continued from Vol. IV.: Letter IV.

to the Earl Fitzwilliam,

Letter to the Empress of Russia, dated November, 1791,

Letter to Sir Charles Bingham, Bart., dated October, 1773, on the Irish

Absentee Tax,

105

Letter to the Honorable Charles James Fox, dated October, 1777, on the

American War,

115

Letter to the Marquis of Rockingham, dated January, 1777, on a pro-

posed Secession from Parliament of Members who had opposed the

American War,

124

132

.

A proposed Address to the King, on the same Subject,

Address to the British Colonists in North America,

Letter to the Right Hon. Edmund Perry, Speaker of the House of

Commons of Ireland, dated July, 1778, on a Bill for the relief of His

Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects in Ireland,

150

161

Letter to Thomas Burgh, Esq., dated New-Year's Day, 1780, in vindica-

tion of the Author's Parliamentary Conduct, relative to the Affairs of

Ireland,

168

Letter to John Merlott, Esq., an eminent merchant of Bristol, dated April,

1780, on the same subject as the preceding letter,

189

Letters (to the Lord Chancellor, to the Earl Bathurst, and to Sir Grey

Cooper) with Reflections on the Executions of the Rioters in 1780,

Letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, one of His Majesty's Principal

Secretaries of State, dated Easter Monday Night, 1792, with a Sketch

of a Negro Code,

193

204

Letter to the Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Meeting, held 13th

April, 1780, at Aylesbury, on the Duration of Parliaments, and a

more equal Representation of the People,

232

Tracts, relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland,

237

Letter to William Smith, Esq., dated January, 1795; then Member of

the Irish Parliament, now one of the Barons of the Court of Exche-

quer in Ireland; on the same Subject,

288

Second Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, dated May, 1795; on the

same Subject,

297

Letter to Richard Burke, Esq., on the same Subject,

Letter on the Affairs of Ireland, written in the Year 1797,

Fragments and Notes of Speeches in Parliament,

On a Bill for shortening the Duration of Parliaments,

388

On the Reform of the Representation in the House of Commons,

On the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels,

A Letter on the same Subject,

On a Bill for Repealing the Marriage Act,

On the Dormant Claims of the Church,
Hints for an Essay on the Drama,

An Abridgment of ENGLISH HISTORY; from the Invasion of Julius
Cæsar to the end of the Reign of King John :-In Three Books :-viz.

BOOK I. CHAP. I. Causes of the Connection between the Romans and

Britons.-Cæsar's two Invasions of Britain,

427

431

436

440

453

CHAP. II. Some account of the Ancient Inhabitants of

Britain,

CHAP. III. The Reduction of Britain by the Romans,

CHAP. IV. The Fall of the Roman Power in Britain,

478

499

BOOK II. CHAP. I. The Entry and Settlement of the Saxons, and their

Conversion to Christianity,

510

CHAP. II. Establishment of Christianity; of Monastic Insti-

tutions; and of their Effects,

521

CHAP. III. Series of Anglo-Saxon Kings from Ethelbert to

Alfred; with the Invasion of the Danes,

533

CHAP. IV.

Reign of King Alfred,

538

CHAP. V. Succession of Kings from Alfred to Harold,

545

CHAP. VI.

Harold.-Invasion of the Normans-Account of

that People, and of the state of England at the time of

the Invasion,

CHAP. VII. Of the Laws and Institutions of the Saxons,

554

563

BOOK III. CHAP. I. View of the state of Europe at the time of the

Norman Invasion,

593

CHAP. II. Reign of William the Conqueror,

600

CHAP. III.

Reign of William the Second, surnamed Rufus, 624

CHAP. IX. Fragment: An Essay towards an History of the

Laws of England,

715