Manuscript speech fragment signed "Mr. E. Burke, " n.d. [after 21 June 1779].

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Manuscript speech fragment signed "Mr. E. Burke, " n.d. [after 21 June 1779].

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In this fragment of a speech he delivered before the House of Commons, Burke writes: "...Our blind contest with America and our more blind reliance on our present Ministers have excited these hopes in our rivals. As long as that unfortunate dissention is kept alive, and as long as the operations which are the result of it remain in the hands of those who have proved themselves perfectly unable either to quiet or to subdue the spirit they had raised, so long the views of the House of Bourbon will continue, ..." Burke speaks against England's "wild pursuit of taxation" and implies that parliament's war with the colonies has attracted more enemies than allies. Spain joined the fight against England in 1779, "without the smallest interruption on our part, " after the latter refused to cede Gibraltar.

1 leaf, front and back (86 x 163 mm).

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