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THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
OF
LORD MACAULAY.

THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
OF
LORD MACAULAY.
VOLUME IV.
LORD MACAULAY'S SPEECHES.
TO HENRY, MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE
THESE SPEECHES ARE DEDICATED BY HIS GRATEFUL AND
AFFECTIONATE FRIEND
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.
PREFACE.
It was most reluctantly that I determined to suspend, during the last
autumn, a work which is the business and the pleasure of my life, in
order to prepare these Speeches for publication; and it is most
reluctantly that I now give them to the world. Even if I estimated their
oratorical merit much more highly than I do, I should not willingly
have revived, in the quiet times in which we are so happy as to live, the
memory of those fierce contentions in which too many years of my
public life were passed. Many expressions which, when society was
convulsed by political dissensions, and when the foundations of
government were shaking, were heard by an excited audience with
sympathy and applause, may, now that the passions of all parties have
subsided, be thought intemperate and acrimonious. It was especially
painful to me to find myself under the necessity of recalling to my own
recollection, and to the recollection of others, the keen encounters
which took place between the late Sir Robert Peel and myself. Some
parts of the conduct of that eminent man I must always think deserving
of serious blame. But, on a calm review of his long and chequered
public life, I acknowledge, with sincere pleasure, that his faults were
much more than redeemed by great virtues, great sacrifices, and great
services. My political hostility to him was never in the smallest degree
tainted by personal ill-will. After his fall from power a cordial

reconciliation took place between us: I admired the wisdom, the
moderation, the disinterested patriotism, which he invariably showed
during the last and best years of his life; I lamented his untimely death,
as both a private and a public calamity; and I earnestly wished that the
sharp words which had sometimes been exchanged between us might
be forgotten.
Unhappily an act, for which the law affords no redress, but which I
have no hesitation in pronouncing to be a gross injury to me and a gross
fraud on the public, has compelled me to do what I should never have
done willingly. A bookseller, named Vizetelly, who seems to aspire to
that sort of distinction which Curll enjoyed a hundred and twenty years
ago, thought fit, without asking my consent, without even giving me
any notice, to announce an edition of my Speeches, and was not
ashamed to tell the world in his advertisement that he published them
by special license. When the book appeared, I found that it contained
fifty-six speeches, said to have been delivered by me in the House of
Commons. Of these speeches a few were reprinted from reports which I
had corrected for the Mirror of Parliament or the Parliamentary Debates,
and were therefore, with the exception of some errors of the pen and
the press,