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 :: ,' 8vo, 1816.
 * 1) 'Speech on the Dethronement of Napoleon,' 8vo, 1816.
 * 2) 'The Liberation of John Magee,' a poem, 8vo, 1816.
 * 3) 'Two Speeches on the Catholic Question,' 8vo, 1816.
 * 4) 'Historical Character of Napoleon Bonaparte, with a curious and interesting Letter of his,' 8vo, 1817.
 * 5) 'An Elegy on H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Wales,' 16mo, 1817. 'The Lament of the Emerald Isle' (a poem on the same occasion), 8vo, 1817.
 * 6) 'The Speeches of Charles Phillips,' edited by himself, with a preface by J. Finlay, 8vo, 1817.
 * 7) 'Recollections of Curran and some of his Cotemporaries,' 8vo, 1818; 5th edit, entitled 'Curran and his Cotemporaries,' Edinburgh, 1857, 8vo.
 * 8) 'Two Speeches in defence of the Christian Religion,' 5th edit. 8vo, 1819.
 * 9) 'Specimens of Irish Eloquence,' with biographical notices, 8vo, 1819.
 * 10) 'The Queen's Case stated,' 8vo, 1820; over twenty editions published in that year.
 * 11) 'Correspondence between S. Warren and C. P. relative to the Trial of Courvoisier,' 8vo, 1849.
 * 12) 'Historical Sketch of Arthur, Duke of Wellington,' 8 vo, 3852.
 * 13) 'Napoleon the Third,' 3rd edit. 8vo, 1854.
 * 14) 'Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishment,' 8vo, 1857; this work was reprinted by the quakers for their own use.

 PHILLIPS, EDWARD (1630–1696?), author, and nephew of Milton, born in August 1630 in the Strand, near Charing Cross, was son of Edward Phillips, secondary of the crown office in the court of chancery, by Ann, only sister of John Milton the poet. The father died in 1631. His first-born child, a girl, died soon after birth in the winter of 1625-6, and was the subject of Milton's poem, 'O fairest flower, no sooner blown than blasted.' Edward was the second child; (1631-1706) [q. v.], the second son, was born posthumously. After 1633 their mother married her first husband's friend and successor in the crown office, Thomas Agar, by whom she had two daughters, Mary and Anne Agar.

Edward and his brother were educated by their uncle, the poet. On the latter's return from Italy in the autumn of 1639, Edward attended daily at his lodgings, near St. Bride's churchyard, Fleet Street, to receive instruction, and when Milton removed to 'a pretty garden-house,' in Aldersgate Street, Edward was sent to board with him. He remained till he was more than twenty a member of his uncle's household, which was stationed in the Barbican from September 1643 till 1647, in High Holborn for a short time in that year, and subsequently at Charing Cross, near Spring Gardens. The course of study through which his uncle conducted him included a very liberal allowance of Latin and Greek literature. Besides the acknowledged classics, he made the acquaintance of such writers as Aratus, Dionysius Afer, and Manilius; nor were the Italian and French tongues neglected. Many branches of mathematics were seriously attacked, and the youth ploughed through masses of divinity. At Michaelmas 1650 Edward went to Oxford, and matriculated at Magdalen Hall on 19 Nov. He left the university after a few months' stay in 1651 without a degree, and sought a livelihood in London in private tuition or in work for the booksellers, which he looked to obtain either by his own ability or his uncle's influence. Although his views, religious, political, and moral, took, almost immediately on his leaving Oxford, the opposite direction to that in which his uncle had trained him, he maintained affectionate relations with Milton until the latter's death, and often stayed under the poet's roof. In 1662 he spent much time with Milton in Jewin Street, and read over ' Paradise Lost ' as it was composed.

His first publication was a poem prefixed to Henry Lawes's 'Ayres,' 1653, and verses by him 'to his friend Thomas Washbourne' preface the latter's 'Divine Poem,' 1654. In 1656 he published two novels in separate volumes, 'The Illustrious Shepherdess' and 'The Imperious Brother,' translated from the Spanish of Juan Perez de Montalvan. The first is dedicated to the Marchioness of Dorchester in 'an extraordinary style of fustian and bombast'. Presentation copies of each to Bishop Barlow, then the librarian, are in the Bodleian Library.

In 1654-5 Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, brother-in-law of the poet William Drummond, brought to London some of Drummond's unpublished manuscripts, and Phillips edited some sixty small poems from the collection in 'Poems by that most Famous Wit, William Drummond of Hawthornden.' He contributed a prose preface, signed E. P., in which he sensibly criticised Drummond's poetic faculty, and may have incorporated the views of his uncle. He signed in full some commendatory verses.

In 1658, after many years' labour, he