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John Campbell's political letters and writings are here published for the first time, delivering rare and significant insights into eighteenth century English politics and providing a substantial new resource for historians.
* A unique resource - John Campbell's political letters and other writings are published here for the first time
* This body of work is a substantial and important new source of information for historians working in the field of mid-eighteenth century politics
* Provides remarkable insights into the politics of the time, and especially into debates in the Commons at a time when Parliament had placed an embargo on the reporting of political debates
* All letters are fully transcribed and in their original form
List of contents
Table of Figures vi Acknowledgments vii
Abbreviations viii
Primary Sources Consulted ix
Introduction. The Welsh Campbell 1
Chapter 1 1734-40 43
Chapter 2 1741-2 63
Chapter 3 1743 121
Chapter 4 1744-51 153
Chapter 5 1755-6 203
Chapter 6 1757-8 227
Chapter 7 1760-4 246
Chapter 8 1765-6 269
Chapter 9 1767-71 306
Appendices: Campbell's Political Essays and Other Political Writings
1 Account of the Pembrokeshire Election (1727) 319
2 Copy of a Letter to a Nonjuring Gentleman in Scotland Writ in the year 1727 321
3 Essay on the Act of Settlement c.1758 330
4 Comments on the Preface to Spelman's Sixth Book of Polybius, and upon P. Francis' Orations of Demosthenes (c.1759) 338
5 The Substance of a Letter, to a Friend in Scotland upon the Militia Scheme, August 1762 349
6 Statement upon the Removal of Army Officers from the House of Commons, 1765 357
7 Observations (c. 1770) 358
8 Some Account of the Great Demagogue, 1765 362
Index 369
About the author
John E. Davies is currently county archivist of Carmarthenshire, Wales. He has previously published
The Carmarthen book of Ordnances (1996). In 2008 he completed his PhD at Swansea University on
The Cawdor Estates in South-West Wales in the Nineteenth Century.
Summary
In 1727 John Campbell began a forty-year career as an old corps whig member of parliament. His correspondence, containing letters to his son and to his friend and political ally Henry Fox, is here published together as a single collection for the first time.
