The Online Books Page

Online Books by

Joseph Hume

(Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855)

Books from the extended shelves:

• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: The Celebrated letter of Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., to William Lyon Mackenzie, Esq., mayor of Toronto, declaratory of a design to "Free these Provinces from the baneful Domination of the Mother Country!" with the comments of the press of Upper Canada on the pernicious and treasonable tendency of that letter, and the speeches, resolutions and amendments of the Common Council of this city, which were the result of a motion of that body to disavow all participation in the sentiments of Mr. Hume. (G.P. Hull, 1834), also by William Lyon Mackenzie and Toronto (Ont.). Common Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: The celebrated letter to William Lyon Mackenzie, esq., declaratory of a design to "Free these provinces from the baneful domination of the Mother country." With the comments of the press of Upper Canada on the pernicious and treasonable tendency of that letter, and the speeches, resolutions and amendments of the Common council of this city. (G.P.Hull, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: Copy of a letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the substance of a speech of Mr. Joseph Hume, on the third reading of the bill (Friday, July 21, 1812) for "preventing frauds and abuses in the frame-work-knitting manufacture, and in the payment of persons employed therein;" in which the impolicy of attempting by legislative enactments to regulate or controul the employment of capital and the price of labour, is clearly shown. (J. Stockdale, 1812) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: The debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday, March 26, 1823; on Mr. Hume's presenting a petition from Mary Ann Carlile, a prisoner in Dorchester Gaol. (T. Moses, 1823), also by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons and Mary Ann Carlile (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: Improvement. Income & property tax (Printed for the author by G. harvey ... ;, 1842), also by Joshua Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: A letter to the earl of Malmesbury relative to the proceedings of Sir James Brooke in Borneo. (London, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: A letter to the Right Hon. George Canning, to explain in what manner the industry of the people, and the productions of the country, are connected with, and influenced by, internal bills of exchange, country bank notes, and country bankers, Bank of England notes, and branch banks : written to expose some of the prevailing fallacies on these subjects : and to prove, that the laws passed under the influence of those fallacies, will greatly obstruct and injure the operations of industry : and have no power to effect the purposes designed by them : with a postscript on the tendency of the wages of labour in England and Ireland to become equal, and the consequences resulting therefrom exemplified / 23 (Printed and sold by Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch-street; sold also by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1826), also by Henry Burgess, Nathaniel Morgan, James Ridgway, and England) Harvey & Darton (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: On the Bank of England; and the state of the currency. The speech of Joseph Hume ... in the House of Commons, on the 8th of July, 1839, on a motion for "Enquiry into the pecuniary transactions of the Bank of England, since the resumption of cash payments in 1821." ([London], 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: On the corn laws and the claims of the agriculturists to relief from taxation speech of Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., on the motion of the Marquess of Chandos, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, April 27, 1836. (Printed for the proprietor of "The Mirror of Parliament", 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: The substance of the speech of Joseph Hume ... delivered at an adjourned general court of the proprietors of East India stock, held in the India House, on the 19th of January, 1813 (Printed for J. Stockdale, 1813) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: The substance of the speech of Mr. Joseph Hume, at the East-India house, on the 6th of October, 1813 : upon the motion for an increase of the salaries to the directors of the East-India company, from the sum of £300 per annum to £1000 : and of the chairman and deputy, from £500 to £1500. (London, 1814) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855: Synopsis of the museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (The Society, 1849), also by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Daniel Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

Help with reading books -- Report a bad link -- Suggest a new listing

Home -- Search -- New Listings -- Authors -- Titles -- Subjects -- Serials

Books -- News -- Features -- Archives -- The Inside Story

Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu)
OBP copyrights and licenses.