_Lord Chatham's Speech on the American Stamp Act._--When I read the
question of your correspondent {221} (in No. 1. p. 12.) on this subject,
I saw at once its importance; for, if my Lord Brougham's statements were
correct, our historians must forthwith re-write a somewhat important
chapter in our history. I felt assured, however, that it was not
correct; and the result of a somewhat tedious search is as I had
anticipated. His lordship had made an error in a date and 1764 should be
1766. The authority, not acknowledged by his lordship, was, no doubt,
the _Parliamentary History of_ 1766 (vol. xvi. p. 96.), where your
correspondent will find the statement, which of course, the date being
correctly given, contains nothing that is not consistent with known
facts.