The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 407 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12).

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 407 pages of information about The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12).

The eighth and last volume will contain a narrative of the life of Mr. Burke, which will be accompanied with such parts of his familiar correspondence, and other occasional productions, as shall be thought fit for publication.[7] The materials relating to the early years of his life, alluded to in the Advertisement to the fourth volume, have been lately recovered; and the communication of such as may still remain in the possession of any private individuals is again most earnestly requested.

Unequal as I feel myself to the task, I shall, my dear friend, lose no time, nor spare any pains, in discharging the arduous duty that has devolved upon me.  You know the peculiar difficulties I labor under from the failure of my eyesight; and you may congratulate me upon the assistance which I have now procured from my neighbor, the worthy chaplain[8] of Bromley College, who to the useful qualification of a most patient amanuensis adds that of a good scholar and intelligent critic.

And now, adieu, my dear friend,

And believe me ever affectionately yours,

WR.  ROFFEN.

Bromley house, August 1, 1812.

FOOTNOTES: 

[1] Works, Vol.  V., quarto edition, (London, F., C., & J. Rivington, 1812,)—­Vol.  IV. of that edition (London, F. & C. Rivington, 1802) being the first posthumous volume,—­and Vols.  I., II., and III. (London, J. Dodsley, 1792) comprising the collection published during the lifetime of Mr. Burke.

[2] Prefixed to the first volume, in the other editions.  For the account referred to, see, in the present edition, Vol.  I., pp. xiii., xiv.

[3] Page 86 of the present edition.

[4] In this edition, p. 91, near the top.

[5] In the fourth volume of the present edition.

[6] The quarto edition,—­extending as far as Book II. ch. 2, near the middle of the paragraph commencing, “The same regard to the welfare of the people,” &c.

[7] This design the editor did not live to execute.

[8] The Rev. J.J.  Talman.

FOURTH LETTER

ON THE

Proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France.

ADDRESSED TO

The Earl Fitzwilliam.
1795-7.

PRELIMINARY CORRESPONDENCE.

Letter from the Right Honorable the Lord Auckland to the Lord Bishop of Rochester.

Eden farm, Kent, July 18th, 1812.

My dear Lord,—­Mr. Burke’s fourth letter to Lord Fitzwilliam is personally interesting to me:  I have perused it with a respectful attention.

When I communicated to Mr. Burke, in 1795, the printed work which he arraigns and discusses, I was aware that he would differ from me.

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