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Burke’s Speech at the Impeachment of Warren Hastings. With an Elaborate Index. Also with a Short Biography of Edmund Burke and Warren Hastings. (Second Edition)

1909

MY Loans —On the last day of the sitting of this court when I had the honour of appearing before you by the order of my fellow-managers I stated to you their observations and my oVvri upon two great points ; one the demeanour of the prisoner at the bar during his trial and the other the princples of his detente. [...] He was a vizier of the empire ; he had a grant of certain lands for the support of that dignity and we refer you to the institutes of Timur to the institutes of Akbar to the institutes of the Mahomedan law for the powers of delegated governors and viceroys. [...] We therefore contended that the demand was not made for the service of the state but for the oppression of the individual that suffered by it.* But admitting the Raja to have been guilty of delay and unwillingness what is the nature of the offence ? If you strip it of the epithets by which it has been disguised it merely ani ants to an unwillingness in the Raja to pay more than the sums stipul [...] We have fixed the period of the Tebellion for which he is supposed to have exacted this fine ; this period of rebellion was after the exaction of the fine itself so that the fine was not laid for the rebellion but the rebellion broke out in consequence of the fine and the violent measure accompanying it. [...] Again my lords did he when Chait Singh in 1775 was put in possession by the potta of the GovernoGeneral and council which contains an enumeration of the names of all the places which were given up to him and consequently of this among the rest —did he either before he put the question in council upon that potta or afterwards tell the council they were going to put forts into the man's
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India
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Frontmatter
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Friday 30th May 1794
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