humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. -To send forth the merciless cannibal, thirsting for blood! against whom?-our brethren!-to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name by the aid and instrumentality of these horrible hounds of war!Spain can no longer boast pre-eminence in barbarity. She armed herself with bloodhounds to extirpate the wretched natives of Mexico! We, more ruthless, loose these dogs of war against our countrymen in America, endeared to us by every tie that can sanctify humanity. I solemnly call upon your lordships, and upon every order of men in the state, to stamp upon this infamous procedure, the indelible stigma of public abhorrence. More particularly, I call upon the holy prelates of our religion to do away this iniquity; let them perform a lustration to purify the country from this deep and deadly sin. My lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor even reposed my head upon my pillow, without giving vent to my eternal abhorrence of such enormous and preposterous principles. INDEX. ACCIDENTS of Speech, the five Adversity, Hymn to Gray Alexander, Oration of the Scythian Ambassadors to. Quintus Curtius Allegro, L' Milton American War, Speech of Lord Chatham against Arms, gestures of the, 112; arms and hands, 121 combat between for the Star Jewel. Fouqué 198 99 Page Body, parts of, on which the hands are placed while speaking, 120; gestures of, 124 Brutus, on the Death of Cæsar Byron, Lord, Childe Harold, Song of, 150; France, Burke on a Regicide peace, 317; description of the CÆSAR, death of, Brutus on the Shakspere Campbell, Battle of the Baltic, 168; of Hohenlin- Carnatic, Hyder Ali's devastation of the Castle Yard, the Lantern in the Fouqué Channing, on Paradise Lost Chatham, Lord, character of, 373; Speech of, against the American War, 378 Chesterfield, the advantages of a good enunciation Childe Harold, Song of Byron 357 205 : 357 193 375 Childhood, French, and views of Paris. Talfourd Circumflexes Climax Cloud, the Macaulay Cocles, Horatius, defends the bridge of the Tiber Collins, the Passions Combat between Arnald of Maraviglia and the two Page 291 73 72 176 340 Combined disposition of both hands in speaking Cornwall, Barry, the Stormy Petrel, 232; the Linden Tree, 233 Correct Articulation Corsair, the Byron 22- 190 Countenance, gestures of the, 126; Quintilian on, 126 Country Clergyman, the Goldsmith 172 Country and our Home, our Montgomery 184 Cresollius, Ludovicus, on bad speaking, 9; on ges- 188 Destruction of Sennacherib Byron Detection and condemnation of treason, Henry V.'s. 242 Devastation of the Carnatic, Hyder Ali's Dickens, a nautical drama and a pantomime Difference between writing and speaking Hazlitt Drama, nautical and a pantomime Dickens Double Emphasis, rules on Douglas, Speech of, to Lord Randolph Home Downward plane, gesture of arms Dryden, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 375 265 . 310 189 88 Dying Christian to his Soul Pope EAGLE, combat between serpent and an Shelley Emphasis, on, 78; on organic, 81; of sense, 85; with |