Excerpt from A Review of the Speeches of the Right Hon. George Canning: On the Late Election for Liverpool, as Far as They Relate to the Questions of Peace and of Reform It would however have been well if Mr. Can n1ug. Had c'onfined hlmself to assertion, and left his heare'ts in that happy state of'confiaence which his assurances bad inspired; but, unfortunately, he has uhdertaken to produce ploof of facts ln themselves: so evident and by a proceeding too common with distinguished orators, has thereby thrown doubts and distrust upon that which must otherwise have been exblicitly admitted. I suppose, says Mr. Cannihg, any man will allow that the present year is a year lot] as extended war as' ever Europe'witnesseds We have seen in the southernpart of Europe the city of Madrid entereel by the vzclot'zozts troops of Great Bri 'tain, and we have heard with horror how the imperial city b] the north has escaped from the ravaoes of the conqueror, only by being consumed inflames of her own kindling - but,0 gentlemen, the same sun which gilded the triumphal entrylof Lord W'ellington into Madrid, ahd turned pale) at the eonflagralion of Moscow, has ripehed during the present year, both in the north and in the south, the most luxuriant harvest that ever blest mankind. \before the war loaf is paraded again, let the philoso phers who sulbport my antagonist, bring me the solutioiz of this phenomenon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.