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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 [‎4r] (7/40)

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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Now let us examine these few sentences a little.
His Lordship begins by saying that we have been
pulled out of Europe by the Great Empire growing up
outside these islands, I venture to think that we
have not been pulled out of Europe by our Colonies, but
that we have been pushed out of Europe by the altered
condition of the European problem itself.
'R'or a long period this kingdom was a match for any
other Power in War; and at the conclusion of the great
Napoleonic war we remained the most powerful nation in
Europe; while, as Macaulay declares, our ^leet had be
come more than a match for all the other Fleets in the
world combined.
In old days we went to war for the ao-called balance
of Trade: we went to war for dynastic purposes; we went
to war for the balance of Power, We fought to drive the

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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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1 file (20 folios)
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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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