THE WORKS
OF
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
EDMUND BURKE
IN TWELVE VOLUMES
VOLUME THE TWELFTH
London
JOHN C. NIMMO
14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C.
MDCCCLXXXVII
CONTENTS OF VOL. XII.
- SPEECHES IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS,ESQUIRE, LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BENGAL. (CONTINUED.)
- GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS 401
- INDEX 407
SPEECHES
IN
THE IMPEACHMENT
OF
WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE,
LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BENGAL.
SPEECH IN GENERAL REPLY.
(CONTINUED.)
June, 1794.
SPEECH
IN
GENERAL REPLY.
FIFTH DAY: SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1794.
My Lords,—We will now resume the considerationof the remaining part of our charge, andof the prisoner's attempts to defend himself against it.
Mr. Hastings, well knowing (what your Lordshipsmust also by this time be perfectly satisfied was thecase) that this unfortunate Nabob had no will of hisown, draws down his poor victim to Chunar by anorder to attend the Governor-General. If the Nabobever wrote to Mr. Hastings, expressing a request ordesire for this meeting, his letter was unquestionablydictated to him by the prisoner. We have laida ground of direct proof before you, that the Nabob'sbeing at Chunar, that his proceedings there, and thatall his acts were so dictated, and consequently mustbe so construed.
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