Alfred Cobban, editor. The Debate on the French Revolution, 1789-1800.
Londres: Black, 1950. 2da edición, 1960.
520 páginas.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION / Alfred Cobban
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
DOCUMENTS
Part I
THE DEBATE BEGINS: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Samuel Romilly. Letter to M. Dumont, 28 July 1789
John Cartwright. Letter to the President of the Committee of Constitution of the States General, 18 August 1789
William Wordsworth. The Prelude, Book XI
Hannah More. Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont, 1793
William Blake. The French Revolution, 1791
Mrs. Barbauld. An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, 1790
Arthur Young. Travels in France, 1792
Edmund Burke. Letter to M. Dupont, October 1789
The Analytical Review, 1789
The Scots Magazine, October 1789
The Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 22 October 1789
Richard Price. A Discourse on the Love of our Country, 4 November 1789
THE INTERVENTION OF BURKE
Debate on the Army Estimates, House of Commons, 5 February 1790
Edmund Burke. Speech on the Army Estimates, House of Commons, 9 February 1790
Debate on the Quebec Government Bill, House of Commons, 21 April 1791
Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
Willam Windham. Diary Entry for 7 November 1790
Dr. Parr. A Sequel to the printed paper lately circulated in Warwickshire by the Revd. Chas. Carter, 1792
Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 1790
Sir Brooke Boothby. A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, 1791
Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man, 1791
William Belsham. Reflections on the French Revolution, 1791
Sir Brooke Boothby. A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, 1791
James Mackintosh. Vindicae Gallicae, 1791
The Constitutional Society: Declaration proposed and adopted, 28 May 1791
W.A. Miles. Observations on reading the Reflections on the French Revolution by Mr. Burke, March 1791
Thomas Christie. Letters on the Revolution in France, 1791
Fanny Burney. Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay. Entry for 18 June 1792
Part II
THE STRUGGLE FOR PARLIAMENTARY REFORM: THE DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT
Henry Flood. Speech on his Motion for a Reform in Parliament, House of Commons, 4 March 1790
William Windham. Speech on Mr. Flood’s Motion, 4 March 1799
Debate on Mr. Grey’s Notice of a Motion Relative to Parliamentary Reform, House of Commons, 30 April 1792
William Windham. Letter to W. J. Gurney, 2 May 1792
Charles James Fox. Speech on the Address of Thanks, House of Commons, 13 December 1792
Debate on Mr. Grey’s Motion for a Reform of Parliament, House of Commons, 26 May 1797
THE AGITATION FOR PARLIAMENTARY REFORM IN THE COUNTRY
The London Corresponding Society. Address and Resolutions, 24 May 1792
Resolution on the Foundation of The Friends of the People in the Borough, 19 April 1792
Rev. Chritsopher Wyvill. Letter to James Martin, 28 April 1792
Rev. Chritsopher Wyvill. Letter to Rev. Dr. Towers, 18 May 1793
Joseph Gerrald. A Convention the only means of saving us from Ruin, 1793
Rev. Chritsopher Wyvill. Letter to Thomas Brand Hollis, 19 February 1794
Henry Yorke. Speech to a General Meeting of the Friends of Justice, Liberty and Humanity, on the Castle Hill, Sheffield, 7 April 1794
Address and Resolution agreed to by the Friends of the People, 9 April 1794
Rev. Chritsopher Wyvill. Letter to Philip Francis, 20 December 1794
Rev. Chritsopher Wyvill. Letter to Philip Francis, 7 January 1795
Philip Francis. Letter to the Rev. Christopher Wyvill, 20 January 1795
Declaration of the Principles and Plan of Parliamentary Reform, recommended by the Society of the Friends of the People, 30 May 1795
John Thelwall. Speech at the General Meeting of the Friends of Parliamentary Reform, 26 October 1795
Rev. Chritsopher Wyvill. Letter to John Cartwright, 16 December 1797
John Cartwright. Letter to the Rev. Christopher Wyvill, 25 December 1797
Part III
NATURAL RIGHTS AND SOVEREIGNTY: THE RIGHTS OF MAN
Earl Stanhope. A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, 1790
James Mackintosh. Vindiciae Gallicae, 1791
Capel Lofft. Remarks on the Letter of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, 1791
Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man, 1791
Thomas Erskine. Speech at the Trial of Thomas Hardy for Treason, 28 October-5 November 1794
Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
Edmund Burke. Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, House of Commons, 11 May 1792
Arthur Young. The Example of France a Warning to Britain, 1793
SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE
Mrs. Macaulay Graham. Observations on the Reflections of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke on the Revolution in France, in a Letter to Earl Stanhope, 1790
James Mackintosh. Vindiciae Gallicae, 1791
Charles James Fox. Speech on the King’s Message for an Augmentation of the Forces, House of Commons, 1 February 1793
James Mackintosh. Vindiciae Gallicae, 1791
Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man, 1791
James Mackintosh. Vindiciae Gallicae, 1791
Charles James Fox. Speech on Mr. Grey’s Motion for a Reform in Parliament, House of Commons, 6-7 May 1793
The London Corresponding Society: Address on the subject of a Parliamentary Reform, 6 August 1792
Thomas Erskine. Speech at the Trial of John Horne Tooke, 17-22 November 1794
Edmund Burke. An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, 1791
Sir Brooke Boothby. Observations on the Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs and on Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man, 1792
Richard Hey. Happiness and Rights, 1792
Willam Pitt. Speech on Mr. Grey’s Motion for a Reform in Parliament, House of Commons, 6-7 May 1793
WILLIAM GODWIN AND POLITICAL JUSTICE
Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man, Part II, 1792
William Godwin. Political Justice, 1793
BURKE’S THEORY OF THE STATE
Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
Edmund Burke. An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, 1791
Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
Part IV
FREEDOM OF OPINION: FOX’S LIBEL ACT
Preamble to Act to remove doubts respecting the functions of juries in cases of Libel, 1792
Earl of Abingdon. Speech on Mr. Fox’s Libel Bill, House of Lords, 11 May 1792
Lord Camden. Speech on Mr. Fox’s Libel Bill, House of Lords, 8 June 1792
Debate in the House of Lords on Mr. Fox’s Libel Bill, 1 June 1792
THE FEAR OF SEDITION
Royal Proclamation against Seditious Writings, 21 May 1792
The Times, 5 December 1792
Resolutions of the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers, 20 November 1792
William Windham. Speech in the Debate on the Address of Thanks, House of Commons, 13 December 1792
Arthur Young. The Example of France a Warning to Britain, 1793
Hannah More. Modern Politicians: a word to the working classes of Great Britain, by Will Chip, a Country Carpenter, 1797 (?)
Rights of Swine, An Address to the Poor, 1794
A Placard, For the Benefit of John Bull, 1794
Thomas Holcroft. A Letter to the Rt. Hon. William Windham, on the Intemperance and Dangerous Tendency of his Public Conduct, 1795
William Wilberforce. Speech in the Debate on the Seditious Meetings Bill, House of Commons, 10 November 1795
Debate in the House of Lords on the Treasonable Practices Bill, 13 November 1795
Marquis of Lansdowne. Speech in the Debate on the Seditious Meetings Bill, House of Lords, 9 December 1795
George Canning. The Anti-Jacobin, No. 5, 11 December 1797
THE TREASON TRIALS
Thomas Erskine. Speech for the defence at the trial of Thomas Paine, 18 December 1792
Lord Justice Braxfield. Trial of Thomas Muir, 30-31 August 1793
Charles James Fox. Letter to Lord Holland, December 1793
Lord Justice Braxfield. Trial of William Skirving, 6-7 January 1794
Lord Justice Braxfield. Trial of Maurice Margarot, 13-14 January 1794
Trial of Maurice Margarot, Edinburgh, January 1794
The London Corresponding Society: Address to the People of Great Britain and Ireland, 20 January 1794
Charles James Fox. Speech in the Debate on Mr. Adam’s Motion respecting the Trials of Mr. Muir and Mr. Palmer, House of Commons, 10 March 1794
Lord Chief Justice Eyre. Charge to the Middlesex Grand Jury, 2 October 1794
Felix Vaughan. Cursory Strictures on the Charge delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre to the Grand Jury, 2 October 1794
Sir John Scott. Speech for the Prosecution at the Trial of Thomas Hardy. 28 October-5 November 1794
Robert Burns. Letter to Mrs. Dunlop, 1794
Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Speech on his Motion for the Repeal of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, House of Commons, 5 January 1795
Thomas Holcroft. A Letter to the Rt. Hon. William Windham, 1795
William Godwin. Considerations on Lord Grenville’s and Mr. Pitt’s Bills concerning Treasonable and Seditious Practices, by a Lover of Order, 1795
Charles James Fox. Speech on his Motion for the Repeal of the Treason and Sedition Acts, House of Commons, 19 May 1797
THE SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS
An Act to cmpower His Majesty to secure and detain such persons, etc., 23 May 1794
Debate in the House of Commons on the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, 16-17 May 1794
Charles James Fox. Debate on the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, House of Commons, 17 May 1794
Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Speech on his Motion for the Repeal of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, House of Commons, 5 January 1795
William Lambton. Speech on the Bill for Continuing the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, House of Commons, 23 January 1795
Part V
CHANGING VIEWS OF THE REVOLUTION
Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
James Mackintosh. Vindiciae Gallicae, 1791
Samuel Romilly. Letter to Madame G., 15 May 1792
Arthur Young. Travels in France, 1792
Samuel Romilly. Letter to M. Dumont, 10 September 1792
John Cartwright. Letter of January 1793
Robert Burns. Letter to Robert Graham, 5 January 793
Bishop of Llandaff. Appendix to a Sermon preached in Charlotte Street Chapel, April 1785, 1793
Arthur Young. The Example of France a Warning to Britain, 1793
Lord Grenville. Letter to Lord Auckland, 11 November 1793
Lord Robert Stephen Fitzgerald. Letter to Lord Grenville, 13 January 1795
Helen Maria Williams, Letters containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, 1795
William Cobbett. The Bloody Buoy, Thrown out as a warning to the Political Pilots of America, by Peter Porcupine, 1796
Robert Burns. Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat, 1795
John Thelwall. Speech at the General Meeting of the Friends of Parliamentary Reform, 26 October 1795
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Letter to Charles Lloyd sen., 15 October 1796
William Wordsworth. The Prelude, Book XI
Edmund Burke. Letters on a Regicide Peace, 1796
Robert Southey. Letter to John May, 26 June 1797
William Cobbett. Democratic Principles Illustrated, by Peter Porcupine, 1798
Samuel Coleridge Taylor. France: An Ode, February 1798
George Canning. Speech in the Debate on Mr. Tierney’s Motion respecting Peace with the French Republic, House of Commons, 11 December 1798
Part VI
THE DEFENCE OF THE ESTABLISHED ORDER
EQUALITY AND PROPERTY
Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
William Godwin. Political Justice, 1793
Offer of a Reward by the Home Secretary in the London Gazette, 1793
Thomas Spence. The Restorer of Society to its Natural State, in the Important Trial of Thomas Spence, on May 27th 1801
Deposition on the Sale of Spence’s publications, 17 May 1797
William Windham. Letter to W. J. Gurney, 2 May 1792
Short Hints upon Levelling, extracted from Dr. Vincent’s Discourse, on May 13, 1792
Aarchideacon Paley. Reasons for Contentment, 1792
Earl of Radnor. Charge to the Grand Jury of the County of Berkshire, 15 January 1793
The Englishman’s Political Catechism, 1793
Arthur Young. The Example of France a Warning to Britain, 1793
Joseph Towers. A dialogue between an Associator and a Well-Informed Englishman, 1793
William Thomson. A Letter to Dr. Parr
Edmund Burke. Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, 1795
Charles James Fox. Speech in the Debate on the High Price of Corn, House of Commons, 3 November 1795
Thomas Paine. Agrarian Justice, 1796
Edmund Burke. Letters on a Regicide Peace, 1796
Hannah More. Charge to the Women of the Shipham Club, 1801
CHURCH AND STATE
The Gentleman’s Magazine: A Review of the Case of the Protestant Dissenters, 1790
Mrs. Barbauld. An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, 1790
Edmund Burke. Speech on Mr. Fox’s Motion for the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, House of Commons, 2 March 1790
Hannah More. Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont, 1793
Joseph Priestley. An Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the Riots in Birmingham, 1791
Dr. Horsley. A Sermon preached before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, on January 23, 1793; being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles the First, 1793
Joseph Priestley. Preface to Fast sermon of 1794
Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Parr
Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
William Belsham. Observations on the Test Laws
Joseph Priestley. Letters to the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, 1791
Part VII
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Lord Grenville. Letter to the Marquis of Buckingham, 14 September 1789
Henry Dundas. Letter to Richard Burke, 20 September 1791
Rev. Richard Worthington. Thoughts on the Manifesto of the French to all States and Nations, 1792
Joel Barlow. Advice to the Privileged Orders, 1792
Edmund Burke. Letter to Lord Grenville, 18 August 1792
Lord Grenville. Letter to Lord Auckland, 6 November 1792
Lord Grenville. Letter to the Marquis of Buckingham, 7 November 1792
Robert Banks Jenkinson. Speech on Mr. Fox’s Motion for sending a Minister to Paris, House of Commons, 15 December 1792
William Pitt. Speech on the King’s Message for an Augmentation of the Forces, House of Commons, 1 February 1793
William Windham. Speech on Mr. Fox’s Resolutions against the War with France, House of Commons, 18 February 1793
Edmund Burke. Letter to the Comte de Mercy, August 1793
Royal Declaration, published in the London Gazette, 29 October 1793
Earl of Mornington. Speech on the Address of Thanks, House of Commons, 21 January 1794
Earl of Mansfield. Speech on the Address of Thanks, House of Lords, 21 January 1794
William Wordsworth. The Prelude, Book X
Marquis of Lansdowne. Speech on his Motion for Peace with France, House of Lords, 17 February 1794
Duke of Bedford. Speech on his Motion for ending the War with France, House of Lords, 30 May 1794
William Wilberforce. Speech on the Address of Thanks, House of Commons, 30 December 1794
Earl Stanhope. Protest against interfering in the internal affairs of France, House of Lords, 6 January 1795
John Bowles. The Dangers of Premature Peace,1795
William Windham. Letter to Edmund Burke, 17 January 1796
Edmund Burke. Letters on a Regicide Peace, 1796
William Windham. Letter to Mrs. Crewe, 30 September 1796
William Pitt. Speech on the King’s Message respecting a Subsidy to Russia, House of Commons, 7 June 1799
William Pitt. Speech on the King’s Message respecting Overtures of Peace from the Consular Government of France, House of Commons, 3 February 1800
William Pitt. Speech on the King’s Message respecting Advances to the Emperor of Germany, House of Commons, 17 February 1800
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