O F EDMUND BURKE, ESQ. ON MOVING HIS RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION with the COLONIES, MARCH 22, 1775. THE SECOND EDITION. LONDON: MDCCLXXV. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA This Volume Was Reproduced From A 1775 Edition Private Library Of Hem Hooser Publications Post Office Box 856 Taylors, South Carolina 29687 Reprinted: 1975 SPEECH O F EDMUND BURKE, Esq. HOPE, Sir, that, notwithstanding the austerity of the Chair, your good-nature will incline you to fome degree of indulgence towards human frailty. You will not think it unnatural, that those who have an object depending, which ftrongly engages their hopes and fears, fhould be somewhat inclined to fuperftition. As I came into the house full of anxiety about the event of my motion, I found to my infinite furprize, that the grand penal Bill, by which we had paffed fentence on the trade and fuftenance of America, is |