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PREFACE, by Mr. Finlay

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Speech delivered at a Public Dinner given to Mr. Finlay by the Roman Catholics of
the Town and County of Sligo

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Speech delivered at an Aggregate Meeting of the Roman Catholics of Cork
Speech delivered at a Dinner given on Dinas Island, in the Lake of Killarney, on
Mr. Phillips's health being given, together with that of Mr. Payne, a young Ame-

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Speech delivered at an aggregate Meeting of the Roman Catholics of the county and
city of Dublin

Petition referred to in the preceding Speech, drawn by Mr. Phillips at the request
of the Roman Catholics of Ireland

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The Address to H. R. H. the Princess of Wales, drawn by Mr. Phillips at the re-
quest of the Roman Catholics of Ireland

Speech delivered by Mr. Phillips at a public dinner given to him by the Friends of
Civil and Religious liberty, in Liverpool

Speech of Mr. Phillips in the case of Guthrie v. Sterne, delivered in the Court of
Common Pleas, Dublin

Speech of Mr. Phillips in the case of O'Mullan v. M'Korkill, delivered at the County
Court-house, Galway

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Speech in the case of Connaghton v. Dillon delivered in the County Court-house of
Roscommon

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Speech of Mr. Phillips in the case of Creighton v. Townsend, delivered in the Court
of Common Pleas, Dublin
Speech in the case of Blake v. Wilkins, delivered in the County Court-house, Galway 121
A Character of Napoleon Buonaparte, down to the period of his Exile to Elba - 134
Speech of Mr. Phillips in the case of Browne v. Blake, for crim. con. delivered in
Dublin, on the 9th July, 1817.

Speech of Mr Phillips at a meeting of the gentlemen, clergy, freeholders, and other
inhabitants of the County of Sligo, for the purpose of taking into consideration an
Address of Condolence to the King on the Death of his Royal father, and of Con-
gratulation to his Majesty on his Accession to the Throne

Speech of Mr. Phillips delivered at the Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign
Auxiliary Bible Society, London ⚫

Letter of Mr. Phillips to George IV. October 6th, 1820.

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PREFACE:

BY JOHN FINLAY, ESQ.

LIPS are now for the first time offered to the world in an authenxertions have been hitherto developed, his admirers, and they mit, that the text of this volume is an acknowledged reference, may fairly resort, and from which his friends must deduce any may have created to the character of an orator.

putation impose no necessity of denying many of those imperimputed to these productions. The value of all human exerpositive excellence is but a flattering designation, even of the and mind.

one way by which we could avoid all possible defects, and that exertion. The very fastidious, and the very uncharitable, may n the class of the indolent; and the man of talent is gencensure, whose industry has given him least title to praise. on are as the spots and shadow which, of necessity, adhere and ourable toil. Were it possible for the friends of Mr. Phillips to could fill up the measure of unavoidable imperfection, and at njury on his reputation, doubtless they would prefer the blemyouth, consonant to genius, and consistent with an obvious and description, we apprehend, may be reduced all the errors that ■ a system of wide-spreading and unwearied criticism, animah indolence too oft regards the success of industry and talent, ts struggle to repress the reputation and importance of a rapidly had such good reason both to hate and fear. For it would be nowing, it would be affectation to conceal, that his political prinis reputation; and that the dispraise of these speeches has been he promotion of placemen and the procurement of place. on thus powerfully wielded, even to the date of the present energy, though it has in its object; nay, more; it has succeeded eficial results of a multiplying reaction. To borrow the exc, "the rays of their indignation collected upon him, served nsume;" and doubtless, this hostility may have promoted this is volume are at this moment read in all the languages of le proportion of their merits to their faults, they are unlikely terity.

whom this book may introduce to a first or more correct ac ce, will therefore be disposed to protect his mind against these ictively diffused, on the double consideration that some ded so much labour, and that some detraction may justly be ac the system whose vices he exposed. The same reader, if *hearing these speeches delivered by the author, will make on for a different reason.

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