than that it has given to the Chancellor of the Exchequer an opportunity to express his persevering sentiment in favour of a Reform, notwithstanding he has moved the question of adjournment. Had I seen that there could be a circumstance in the present moment that could render the restoration of the Constitution improper, I should never have proposed it; but I neither did nor can conceive such a possibility: the time I thought, for various reasons, the properest in the world, and for this amongst others-this would have been the time in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Reform would have begun to operate, if his proposition had succeeded; and, therefore, I could not think it an improper time to find a substitute for it. But every thing, it is said, is well: this is true in a part, but beyond a part it is not true. You are growing in prosperity-that is well; but you are two hundred and forty millions in debt: all the genius of Administration has not pointed out any mode for the effectual liquidation of it; nor has any man pointed out the resources for another war. Who will say that this is well? I do not despond, however; it is not my nature; and I have thought too often and too anxiously on the subject, not sometimes to flatter myself with a glimpse of such a possibility. But this I am bold to affirm, that the measures for that purpose must be so strong and systematical, as to require a stronger House of Commons than an inadequate representation can furnish. There is an influence that will always disturb every thing that is great, in pursuit of every thing that is little. This influence cannot live in a constitutional representative: such a representative, therefore, is the greatest of public blessings, and all public calamities are associated with the want of it.

The higher classes of every state are subject to be debauched by ambition, and the lower by necessity; the middle classes alone can be depended upon. These extremes of the State are apt to unite to overwhelm every thing between; it is the business, therefore, of wise statesmen to render the middle ranks so strong as to be able to resist this union of the extremes. The constituent body is the political army of the State: an able general will make the centre of his army strong,

if he be in danger from the wings. On this principle, I introduce four hundred thousand responsible citizens from the middle ranks of the people, to fortify the Constitution, and to render it impregnable. Such men cannot gain by convulsion; such men are too numerous to combine; and their position is a position of moderation, because it is a state of mediocrity.

But the Chancellor of the Exchequer wishes me to withdraw my motion, and I wish to comply with his request; but having satisfied my own mind as to the propriety both of the time and of the measure,and having been encouraged by the opinion of others, I feel that it does not become me to retract. It is not pertinacity, but an idea, whether erroneous or not, of public decorum, that interposes to prevent it, and compels me to leave the fate of the question to the determination of the House.

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CONTENTS.

LETTER

I.-Right Hon. Edmund Burke to Henry Flood, Esq.
II.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
III.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
IV. Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
V.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
VI.-H. Flood, Esq. to the Right Hon. W. Pitt
VII.-Earl of Chatham to Henry Flood, Esq.
VIII.-Henry Flood, Esq. to Lord Chatham
IX.-Henry Flood, Esq. to Lord Charlemont
X.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XI.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XII.-Lord Wandesford to Henry Flood, Esq.
XIII.-W. Talbot, Esq. to Henry Flood, Esq.
XIV.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XV-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XVI-Mrs. A. Macartney to Henry Flood, Esq.
XVII.-F. Campbell, Esq. to Henry Flood, Esq.
XVIII.-Lord Lifford to Lord Charlemont

XIX.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XX.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXI.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXII.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXIII.-J. Blaquiere, Esq. to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXIV.-Lord Camden to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXV.-Lord Camden to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXVI.-Note from Lord Camden to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXVII.-J. Blaquiere, Esq. to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXVIII-Duke of Devonshire, &c. to Lord North
XXIX.-Lord North's Reply to the Duke of Devonshire
XXX.-Earl of Rockingham to Lord Cork
XXXI.—J. Blaquiere, Esq. to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXXII.-W. Blakeney, Esq. to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXXIII.-J. Blaquiere, Esq. to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXXIV-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.

XXXV.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXXVI.-Henry Flood, Esq. to Lord Harcourt
XXXVII.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXXVIII.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.
XXXIX.-Lord Charlemont to Henry Flood, Esq.

XL.-Right Hon. C. Jenkinson to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XLI.-Lord Harcourt to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XLII.-D. Webb, Esq. to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XLIII.-D. Webb, Esq. to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XLIV.—D. Webb, Esq. to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XLV.-D. Webb, Esq. to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XLVI.-Lord Harcourt to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XLVII.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XLVIII.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XLIX.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
L.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LI-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LIL-Right Hon. C. Townsend to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LIII-Right Hon. C. Townsend to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LIV.-Lord Harcourt to the Right Hon. Henry Flood

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LV-Right Hon. Henry Flood to Lord Harcourt
LVI.-E. Jerningham, Esq. to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LVII.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LVIII.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Heury Flood
LIX.-His Excel. the Earl of Buckingham to the Right Hon. Henry Flood 105
LX.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXI.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXII.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXIII.-Lord. Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXIV.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXV.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXVI.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXVII.-E. Malone, Esq. to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXVIII.—W. Markham, Abp. of York, to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXIX.-J. Graham, Esq. to the Duke of Chandos
LXX.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXI.-D. Webb, Esq. to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXII.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXIII.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXIV.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXV. Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXVI.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXVII.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXVIII.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXIX.-Right Hon. Henry Flood to the Duke of Chandos
LXXX.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXXI.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXXII.-Right Hon. Henry Flood to the Duke of Chandos
LXXXIII.—E. Malone, Esq. to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXXIV.-E. Malone, Esq. to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXXV.-Lord Bellamont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXXVI.-Lord Bellamont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXXVII.-Right Hon. Henry Flood to Lord Bellamont
LXXXVIII.-Lord Bellamont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
LXXXIX.-Right Hon. Henry Flood to Lord Bellamont

XC.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XCI.-Right Hon. Henry Flood to the Duke of Chandos
XCII.-Lord Bellamont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XCIII-Right Hon. Henry Flood to Lord Bellamont
XCIV.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XCV.-Lord Bellamont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XCVI.-Right Hon. Henry Flood to the Duke of Chandos
XCVII.-Lord Bellamont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
XCVIII.-Right Hon. Henry Flood to Lord Bellamont
XCIX.-Duke of Chandos to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
C.-Right Hon. Henry Flood to the Duke of Chandos
Memorandum of Sir L. Parsons

CI.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
CII.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
CIII.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
CIV.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
CV.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
CVI.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood
CVII.-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon. Henry Flood.
CVIII-Lord Charlemont to the Right Hon, Henry Flood
Fame, an Ode, by the Right Hon. Henry Flood
Speech of the Right Hon. H. Flood on Parliamentary Reform

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