speeches (documents)

In this edition the bar beneath "on Friday, November 26, 1779" is 7.3 cms long and the double bar between the "answer" and the imprint is made up of a thick bar above a thin bar, which itself is very slightly shorter in length.

Caption title. At head of caption title: Numb. 3. Imprint from colophon.

Text of Pitt's speech is preceded by an introductory passage probably written by Henry Cruger at whose instigation the speech was evidently reprinted at Bristol in 1778. Dated: Bristol, March 20, 1778. Text printed in four columns divided by ornamental rules. N-YHS copy imperfect: damaged along creases, with slight loss of text; manuscript leaf pasted onto verso reads: Lord Chatham's great speech, in the House of Lords, 20th January, 1775 - as caused to be reprinted at Bristol, 20th March, 1778, by Henry Cruger, then a representative for Bristol in the English House of Commons.

Comprising a dialect speech by J--n D. N----s [i.e., John De Noyelles], member from Orange, in favor of dividing Orange County, and a summary of the rest of the debate in the committee of the whole House on Feb. 22, 1774. Printed in two columns. Imprint supplied by Evans. New-York Historical copy 1: manuscript annotation; inscribed: "Gouverneur Morris". New-York Historical copy 2 inscribed: "Printed by John Holt, Feb. 1774".

Printed pamphlet.