William Huskisson epub Substance of Two Speeches, Delivered in the House of Commons, on the 21St and 25Th of March, 1825, Respecting the Colonial Policy, and Foreign Commerce of the Country (Classic Reprint)

Committee will forme if I dwell upon explanations and statements, winch illicit, otherwise, appear to be uncalled for by the occasion. I can assure the Committee that if I am about to recommend alterations which are at variance with the ancient sentiments of this country, in respect to Colonial )olicv and trade, it is not because I consider the views of our ancestor a necessarily erroneous, or that innovation must necessarily be improvement ;but it is, because the circumstances and state of the world, in which we have to examine colonial interests, have changed; and it becomes us as practical Statesmen, to deal with those interests with a reference to that change. It is only in this sense, and with this qualification, that I desire to be looked upon as an innovator. I am not anxious to give effect to new principles, where circumstances do not call for their application ;feeling as I do, from no small experience in public business and every day confirms that feeling how much, in the vast and complex interests of this country, all general theories, however incontrovertible in the abstract, require to be weighed with a calm circumspection, to be directed by a temperate discretion, and to be adapted to all the existing relations of society, with a careful hand, and a due regard to the establishments and institutions which have grown up under those relations. It was under these impressions, that, in conformity to the notice which I had given, I intended this evening to have requested the attention of the Committee to the following subjects :V r.v, The system of our commercinl policy in respect to our colonies.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series u