The Works of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke. A New Edition.

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The third edition of Burke's collected works, incorporating Burke's final revisions and notes and serving as the definitive text for about a decade until further material was added in 1812. This set, in an attractive contemporary binding, belonged to Sir Evan John Murray-MacGregor of MacGregor (1785-1841), soldier and colonial administrator. He purchased a commission in the 15th Dragoons in 1804 and fought at the Battle of Sahagún in 1808.
Murray-MacGregor has underlined several passages throughout volume five, containing the text of Burke's 1790 speech on army estimates and his Reflections on the Revolution in France. The passages he has marked in the former text pertain to the difficulties of managing an army (in the Fifteenth Dragoons he commanded a troop, an in April 1810 he was promoted to Major in the 103rd Foot Regiment), while his annotations in the latter text are more animated. He frequently uses multiple exclamation marks to annotate Burke's text, and the word 'swinish' is underlined six times for emphasis. His textual annotations, though much less frequent, have a similar fervency to them: one signed note, against a report of a clergyman's joy at seeing 'a king dragged in submissive triumph by his conquering subjects', reads 'a gibbet composed of all the timber in the universe would be too short to elevate these reverend rascals to a sufficient distance from the Earth'.
His Royalist sentiments were rewarded and reflected in long service to the crown: He was appointed Governor of the British Leeward Islands in the West Indies in 1832, where he oversaw the abolition of slavery in the colony, and died in Barbados with the military rank of Major-General in 1841.