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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

1868

The assumption of arbitrary power in whatever shape it appeared 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 '—was the sure object of his detestation and hostility. [...] The real cause which he advocated did not depend upon the decision of the court of judicature before which the impeachment was tried: Front the moment it was voted by the House of Comons the attainment of its main object was placed out of the power of his opponents to wrest from him.—The existence of the enormities with the commission of which the -governogeneral was charged how much soei [...] On the part of Lord FitzWilliam this separation was marked with a moderation which disarmed the animosity of the friends he had 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. [...] His advanced The dismission of the coalition ministry in 1784 and the subsequent discomfiture of the Whig candidates at the General Election in the same year ; his resignation of the lorlieutenancy of Ireland 1795; the dimission of the Grenville at;ministration in 1807 ;' and Lord Fitzwillianfs removal from the lord-lieutenancy of Yorkshire in 1819. [...] It is expressly said in that body of regulations to which I alude that the office and situation of a judge of the dewanny courts of adawlet is to be filled by the junior servants of the Company ; and as the judicial emolument is not substantially equal to that of other situations the office of a judge is to be taken as it were in tran8itu as a passage to other offices not of a judicial natu
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Pages
515
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145318
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Frontmatter
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Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
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Trial of Warren Hastings. Esquire. Third Day 15th February 1788
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Trial of Warren Hastings Esquire. Wednesday 28th May 1794
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Bohn’s Various Libraries
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