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Copy of the speech 'The Empire and its responsibilities' given by Lewis Pelly at the Hampstead Constitutional Club 06 April 1892 [13r] (25/40)
The record is made up of 1 file (20 folios). It was created in 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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nave s3Q n men rise "to speak on Empire — its resources
ciiid adminlstration — who forthwith displayed their ig-
norance of the very A,B.C. of details of principles:
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Men who have never seen a day 1 s danger or done one day's
real work for the Empire, and who yet dictate to or pre
tend to govern those who have borne the sweat and burden
of the age.' Men who far from being Statesmen or Ad
ministrators could not in the hour of peril be entrusted
with a corporal's guard or the management of a Parish.
But then it is said we won the day under old Nelson,
and we should win it again now. I submit that the condi
tions of the two cases are different. In the time of the
Napoleonic wars it took less time to build a line of
battle-ships than it now takes to build one of our bi^
guns, while the cost of a Man of War was insignificant
as compared with that of one of our huge iron-clads.
Our ships at the opening of the century might be counted
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Typed copy of the speech 'The Empire and its responsibilities' given in support of Edward Brodie Hoare's campaign for re-election as MP for Hampstead with annotations and corrections in ink by Pelly.
Pelly had been asked by Hoare to give a talk, which he believed was to be a 'parlour talk' to a few friends, until he discovered it was being advertised in the Times and other leading newspapers of the time.
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The file has printed foliation in thetop right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, with the exception of folio 1 where the foliation number has been inserted in pencil.
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- Mss Eur F126/25
- Title
- Copy of the speech 'The Empire and its responsibilities' given by Lewis Pelly at the Hampstead Constitutional Club 06 April 1892
- Pages
- 1r:20v
- Author
- Pelly, Sir Lewis
- Copyright
- ©Major General Charles Vyvyan
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