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FREE TRADE AND THE LEAGUE:

A BIOGRAPHIC HISTORY

OF THE

PIONEERS OF FREEDOM OF OPINION,
COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE, & CIVILISATION,

IN BRITAIN,

FROM

THE TIMES OF SERFDOM

ΤΟ

THE AGE OF FREE TRADE IN MANUFACTURES,
FOOD, AND NAVIGATION.

BY

ALEXANDER SOMERVILLE.

("ONE WHO HAS WHISTLED AT THE PLOUGH.")

VOL. II.

MANCHESTER:

JAMES AINSWORTH, 93 PICCADILLY.

1853.

07-14-42 GS

Bates
Grant

7-10 -4 m
45431.

BIOGRAPHIC HISTORY

OF

FREE TRADE & THE LEAGUE.

INDEX TO VOL II.

Anti-bread tax circular, 513, 526.
Anti-corn-law association of Man-
chester, 152. 399, 414, 416, 481,
486.

Anti-corn-law bazaar at Manchester
in 1841, 514.

Anti-corn-law circular, 487.
Anti-corn-law league, 486.
Ashworth, Edmund, 179.
Ashworth, Henry, 214.
Ballantyne, John, 487.

Banquet, anti-corn-law banquets at
Manchester, 487, 490, 493, 504,
527.

Jaxter, Edward, 414.

Bazaar at Manchester, in 1841, 414.
Bazaar articles contributed, 520.
Bentham, Jeremy, 330.

Bowring, Dr. John, his visit to Man-
chester in 1838, 399.

Bowring, Dr. John, his speech, 401.
Bowring, Dr. John, his life, 417.
Bowring, Dr. John, at the opening of
the Free Trade Hall, at Man-
chester, 528.

Bright, John, M.P., on the growth of
cotton in India, 284. See also,
417, 491.

Bright, John, M.P., memoir of, 529.
Brooks, John, manufacturer of Man-
chester, 426.

Brotherton, Joseph, M.P., 413.
Brotherton, Joseph, M.P., memoir of,
562.

Buckingham, James Silk, 284.
Buckingham, James Silk, committee

of inquiry in 1834, into his expul-
sion from India. Resolutions una-
nimously reported to the house. 291.
Buckingham, James Silk, facts proved
in evidence, 292.

Buckingham, James Silk, his opinion
on Indian reform, aud quarantine
laws, 299.

Buckingham, James Silk, on domestic
and social reforms, 300.
Buckingham, James Silk, on antiqua-
rian researches, 304.

Byng, George, M.P., his advice to Mr.
Cobden, 522.

Chartist leaders hired by the bread-
taxers, 508.

Childs, John, of Bungay, his pro-
phecy of the corn bill of 1815,
385.

Clarkson, Thomas, memoir of, 233.
Cobden, Richard, his speech in the
Chamber of Commerce, Manchester,
13th Dec. 1838, 174.

Cobden, Richard, his second speech in
the Chamber of Commerce, Man
chester, 188.

Cobden, Richard, his form of petition
for the total repeal of the corn
laws, 193.

Cobden, Richard, notices of him, 429,
500, 522.

Cobden, Richard, he announces the
proposition to raise a fund of
£50,000, 524.

Cobden, Richard, memoir of, 540.
Conference of ministers of religion at
Manchester, 513, 521.

Corn law of 1815, opinions of Man-
chester politicians on it, when en-
acted, 386.

Corn Exchange, Manchester, League
meetings at, 523.
Crawford, Sharman, 502.
Cunningham, W. A., 414.
Dalziel, Andrew, 414.
Dyer, J. C., 171, 184, 196.

East India Company, rise, progress,
and subversion of its monopoly,
236.

East India Company, constituted, 272.
Elliott, Ebenezer, the corn-law rhy-
mer, 361.

Elliott, Ebenezer, specimens of his in-
tellectual power, 377.

Expenses of the anti-corn-law agita-
tion, 489.

Ferrand, William Busfield, 521
Fletcher, Samuel, on the corn laws,
156, 170.

Fox, Rev. William Johnson, M.P., me-
moir of, 543.

Free Trade Hall built, 527.
Fund, league funds, 486, 524.

Gibson, Right Hon. Thomas Milner,
501.

Gisborne, Thomas, 497.
Greg, Robert Hyde, 198.
Grenville, Lord, 319.

Hadfield, George, of Manchester, 409.
Henry, Alexander, M.P., 417.
Heywood, James, M.P,, 42.
Hicken, Joseph, 508.
Hoole, Holland, 216.

Horner, Francis, and the bank ques-
tion, 326.

Howie, James, 414.

Hume, James Deacon, his evidence on

the import duties, and his estimate
of the evil effects of the corn laws,
511.

Hume, Joseph, M.P., 423.
Hume, Joseph, memoir of, 565.
Kershaw, James, M.P., 417.
Kinnaird, Lord Kinnaird's letter on

the league fund of 1842, 526.
Ladies, patronesses of the bazaar of
1841, 514, 516.

League, anti-corn-law, the moral
worth of the "thorough leaguers,"
estimated by The Times newspaper,
in 1842, 521.
League, its origin, 486.

Lecturers, of the league, 488, 522.
Manchester Chamber of Commerce,
corn law debate in, Dec. 13, 1838,
152, 183.

Manchester anti-corn law association,
152.

Manchester, its progress from mono-

poly to free trade, 380.
Manchester "Times" newspaper and
Mr. Prentice, 397.
Massie, Rev. William, 514.
McKerrow, Rev. William, 403, 514.
Morse, Arthur, of Swaffham, 527.
Neild, Alderman William, 161.
O'Connell, Daniel, 498, 503.
O'Connell, Daniel, memoir of, 553.

O'Connor, Feargus, and followers, 521.
Operations of the anti-corn-law league
on county electoral registers, 521.
Palmer, John, mail coach reformer,
323.

Paulton, Abraham Walter, 482.
Pearson, Benjamin, defends Poulett

Thomson against Mr. Cobden, 202.
Peel, Sir Robert, opinions of the
first Sir Robert Peel, on the corn-
laws of 1815, 386.

Peel, Sir Robert, defeats the whig.
ministry in 1841, 513.

Peel, Sir Robert, repeals the corn laws.
Phillips, Mark, 496.

Potter, Sir Thomas, 203.
Prentice, Archibald, educator of public
opinion in Manchester, 380.
Prentice, Archibald, his recollections
of the corn bill of 1815, 385.
Prentice, Archibald, on infant schools,
394.

Prentice Archibald, on the corn laws.
Prize essays, the league prize essays
of 1842, 527.

Rawson, William, 215.
Rose, Sir George, 336.

Sandars, G., his speech in the Cham-
ber of Commerce, Manchester, 204.
Slave Trade, 222.

Smith, J. B., his speeches in the Cham-
ber of Commerce, Manchester, 1838,
161, 207, 417, 508.

Spencer, Rev. Thomas, 491.
Strike of the manufacturing operatives
in 1842, 521.

Taylor, Peter, silk merchant, London,
521.

Thompson, George, 502, 513.
Thompson, Colonel Perronet, his life,
463.

Thompson, Colonel Perronet, his an-
swer to the Doncaster fallacies, 470.
Thompson, Colonel Perronet, his an-
swer to the fallacies of Mr. Beckett
Denison, 475.

Thompson, Right Hon. Poulett, (Lord
Sydenham)-

Memoir of, 3.

his speech on the principles of free
trade in 1829, 16.

his views of taxation, 25.
his presidency of the Board of
Trade, 28.

he promotes the principles of inter-
national commerce with France,
31, 49.

his election for Manchester, 34.
his first speech at Manchester, (a
vindication of commercial reform),
delivered 28th December, 1832,
37.

Thompson, Right Hon. Poulett, (Lord
Sydenham)

his alterations in the customs'
duties, 41.

his commercial reforms serve as
precedents to Sir Robert Peel,
43.

elected for Manchester (the fifth
time in five years), 47.

his letter to Lord John Russell on
"patching" up the finances, 55.
his eulogy of the public services of
Lord John Russell, 57.

his improvement of the Board of
Trade, 60.

is appointed governor-general of
Canada, 62.

leaves England for Canada, 64.
his opinion in 1839, that Sir Robert
Peel might abolish the corn laws
if he had courage, 65.

his opinion of Sir James Macin-
tosh.

he arrives in Canada; condition of
Canada at that time, 67.
his measures of government in Ca-
nada, 79.

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Tracts, league tracts issued, 524.
Villiers, Hon. Charles Pelham, 431,
497.

Villiers, Hon. Charles Pelham, his

speech on assuming the anti-corn
law leadership in parliament, 15th
March, 1838, 437.*

Waghorn, Thomas, pioneer of the over-
land route to India, 307.
Walsall, the election there in 1840,
506.

Warburton, Henry, 502.

Wilberforce, William, memoir of, 222.
Wilson, George, (chairman of the anti-
corn law league), his proposition
for raising a fund of £50,000, in
1842, 524, 528.

Wood, George William, M.P., president
of the Chamber of Commerce, at
Manchester, 152.

JAMES AINSWORTH, PRINTER, AND PUBLISHER, PICCADILLY MANCHESTER,

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