Edmund burke and the politics of conquest*

Modern Intellectual History

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 403-432

  Bourke, Richard ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61249111222     PISSN: 14792443     EISSN: 14792451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1479244307001333     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. The relevant key documents have been collected In Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty, eds., Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1759 – 91, 3 vols. (Ottawa, 1918), hereafter cited as Canada Documents. The full ministerial and parliamentary records relevant to the Quebec Act are available In R. C. Simmons and D. G. Thomas, eds.,Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754 - 1783 7 vols. to date (New York, 1982-).
2. Canada Documents, 182 - 3.
3. The “ Report of Solicitor General Alex. Wedderburn ” of 6 Dec. 1772 appears in Canada Documents, 1: 424 – 32.
4. Debates 1774, 251.
5. Ibin., 223.
6. Ibin., 213.
7. The Quebec Act in Canada Documents, 1: 570 – 81.
8. Debates 1774, 88. Ibin., 87 – 8, 235.
9. Ibin., 88, 288 – 9.
10. Edmund Burke, “ Speech on Quebec Bill ”, in The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke II: Party, Parliament, and the American Crisis, 1766 – 1770, ed. Paul Langford (Oxford, 1981), 473. 24 1774 Debates, 46.
11. Edward Coke, The Seventh Part of the Reports of Sir Edward Coke (London, 1608), 601. For the treatment of Ireland in the Institutes see Coke, Fourth Part of the Institutes, 349 – 61.
12. On the authoritative bases for both statutory and common law in Coke’s thinking see Alan Cromartie, Sir Matthew Hale, 1609 - 1676 (Cambridge, 1995), 11 – 29.
13. Debates 1774, 59. Ibin., 50.
14. Ibin., 30.
15. 'Report of Attorney General, Edward Thurlow” ( 22 Jan. 1773), in Canada Documents, 1: 440.
16. Debates 1774, 60. 1774 Debates, 59, 60.
17. Sir John Davies, A Discoverie of the True Causes Why Ireland was never Entirely Subdued, nor Brought under Obedience of the Crowne of England, untill the Beginning of His Majesties Happie Raigne (London, 1612), 3.
18. Sir John Davies, “ A Dissertation on the Progress and Constitution of the Legislature of Ireland ” (1613), in Thomas Leland, The History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II. With a Preliminary Discourse on the Ancient State of that Kingdom, 3 vols. (London, 1773), 2: Appendix, 491.
19. This was the main import of William Molyneux, The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated (Dublin, 1698).
20. Leland, History of Ireland, 2: 507 n. See, for example, the comments by Charles Yorke during the debates on the Rockinghamite Declaratory resolutions on 3 Feb. 1766 in “ Ryder Diary ”, Camden Miscellany XXIII ( 1969 ), 264.
21. This sovereignty was more notional than real, Davies duly contended. See Davies, Discoverie 14 – 15.
22. Davies Discoverie 124 – 5. Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita, ed. R. W. Ogilvie, 6 vols. (Oxford, 1974), 2: bk VIII, chap, xiii, 16: “ Voltis exemplo maiorum augere rem Romanam victos in civitatem accipiendo? ”
23. Davies, Discoverie, 125 – 6.
24. Cornelius Tacitus, De vitae Agricolae, ed. R. M. Ogilvie and I. Richmond (Oxford, 1967), 21: “ namque ut hominess dispersi ac rudes eoque in bella faciles quieti et otio per voluptates adsuescerent. idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset ”.
25. Ibin., 160.
26. Ibin., 171. Ibin., 160. Cf. Julius Caesar, The Gallic War, trans. H. J. Edwards (Cambridge MA, 1917), bk V, 14.
27. Edmund Burke, “ Speech on Conciliation with America ”, in ibin., 140.
28. The report in the General Evening Post is reproduced as “ Speech on Quebec Bill ”, in Writings and Speeches II, 471 – 3.
29. Debates 1774, 189, 239. Ibin., 89
30. Ibin., 85 – 6. Ibin., 286 – 9. Cf. Edmund Burke, “ Speech on Quebec Bill ”, in Writings and Speeches II, 473.
31. John Campbell, Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca: Or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels, Consisting of above Six Hundred of the Most Authentic Writers, 2 vols. (London, 1744 – 8 ).
32. Fernando Colombo The History of the Life of Adm. Christopher Columbus, and of the Discovery of the West Indies, Call’d the New World, Now in Possession of His Catholick Majesty, in A. and J. Churchill,A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, 2 vols. (London, 1704, 1732, 1744,1752), 2: 479 – 604.
33. Colombo, Life of Adm. Christopher Columbus, 2: 507. Ibin., 2: 542.
34. Ibin., 2: 542.
35. Colombo, Life of Adm. Christopher Columbus, 1: 31.
36. Burke and Burke, An Account, 1: 31. For the points raised by Montesquieu see Spirit of the Laws, pt V, chaps. 3 – 4 on Islamic conquest, and pt III, chap. 7 on the failure of Aristotle to prove his case. Burke, An Account, 1: 32.
37. Edmund Burke, An Essay towards an Abridgment of English History (1757- ?) in The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke I: The Early Writings, ed. T. O. McLoughlin and James T. Boulton (Oxford, 1997), 430.
38. John Dalrymple, An Essay towards a General History of Feudal Property in Great Britain (London, 1757), 2 – 7.
39. Burke and Burke, An Account, 1: 258 – 59.
40. Ibin., 258. 85 1774 Debates, 286.