HALE, John. The Speech of Lieutenant- General Hale, in favour of the people, at the nomination and election of a member of parliament for Yorkshire, in the room of Sir George Saville. 33, [1]p. A very good copy in recent marbled boards with red morocco spine label. Neat repair to the gutter margin of the title page. 8vo. York. Printed by A Ward. 1785. ~ John Hale (1728–1806) was a British army officer, who is remembered chiefly for his close friendship with General James Wolfe. After 1762 he gradually withdrew from regimental affairs, due it seems to quarrels with some of his fellow officers. In politics he was something of a reformer, and during the Yorkshire by-election of 1785, he made a celebrated speech which was considered by most of the electorate to be dangerously radical. He advocated a more equal representation of the people in parliament, and also the repeal of the Act of Disfranchisement.