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The Speeches of Edmund Burke on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings To which is added a Selection of Burke’s Epistolary Correspondence

1908

The assumption of arbitrary power in vhatcvcr shape it appeased whether under the veil of legitimacy or skulking in the disguise of state necessity or presenting the shameless front of usurpation —whether the prescriptive claim of acendency or the brief career of official authority or the newlacquired dominion of a mob l—was the sure object of his detestation and hostility. [...] On the part of Lord Fitzwilliam this separation was marked with a moderation which disarmed the animosity of the friends he 1.-d quitted and left open the avenues to reunion with them while at the same time it indicated the terms and extent of the new allance and was a pledge to the people that the security of their rights and of the constitution was with him the sole object of that alliance [...] The first source of its power is under charters which the Crown of Great Britain was au tikorized by act of parliament to grant ; the other is from several charters derived from the emperor of the Moguls the person in whose dominions they were chiefly conversant: particularly that great charter by which in the year 17G0 they acquired the high stA'ardship of the kingdoms of Begal Behar and [...] I do not say that some of the salaries given in India would not sound well here; but when you consider the nakure of the trusts the dignity of the situation whatever the nae.le of them may be the powers that are granted the hopes that every man has of establishing himself or home —I repeat it is a source of infinite griel.ance—of ifinite abuse : of which source of corrupt power we charge H [...] It is expressly said in that body of regulations to which I ahide that the office ard situation of a judge of the dewanny courts of adawlet to be filled by the junior servants of the Company ; and as the judicial enrol: meat is not substantially equal to that of other situati.7–Is the office of a judge is to be taken as it were in Imnsilu ae a passage to other offices not of a judicial natu
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Pages
544
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United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.147666
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Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
His Most Chrtstian Majesty Charles Xth King of France and Nayarre
vii-viii Syama Mookerjee view
Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
1-231 unknown view
Speech in the Impeachment of Trial Tuesday 21st April 1789
232-297 unknown view
Speech in the Imprachment of Trial Saturday 25th April 1789
298-450 unknown view
Advertisement
451-454 unknown view
Trial of Warren Hastings Esquire. Wednesday 28th May 1794
455-504 unknown view
An Alphabetical List of Books Contained in Bohn’s Libraries
1-24 unknown view
Backmatter
i-viii unknown view

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