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... Sixth Charge , 25th April , 5th May , and 7th May , 1789 • Advertisement to Report of Committee appointed to inspect the Lords ' Journals First Day of Reply • 451 455 ΤΟ HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY , CHARLES XTH , KING.
... Sixth Charge , 25th April , 5th May , and 7th May , 1789 • Advertisement to Report of Committee appointed to inspect the Lords ' Journals First Day of Reply • 451 455 ΤΟ HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY , CHARLES XTH , KING.
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... appointed by parliament to assert the authority of the laws of this kingdom , were the most forward , the most bold , and the most active in the conspiracy for their destruction ; then it was time for the justice of the nation to ...
... appointed by parliament to assert the authority of the laws of this kingdom , were the most forward , the most bold , and the most active in the conspiracy for their destruction ; then it was time for the justice of the nation to ...
Strana 24
... appointed to the superior department persons who had no title to that place under the ordinary usage of the service . Mr. Hastings and Mr. Barwell , whatever other titles they might have had , held solely under the act of parliament ...
... appointed to the superior department persons who had no title to that place under the ordinary usage of the service . Mr. Hastings and Mr. Barwell , whatever other titles they might have had , held solely under the act of parliament ...
Strana 25
... appointed to conduct affairs which required the greatest maturity of judgment , the greatest possible temper and moderation . Effects natur- ally consequent have followed upon it . - I shall not trouble your lordships with any further ...
... appointed to conduct affairs which required the greatest maturity of judgment , the greatest possible temper and moderation . Effects natur- ally consequent have followed upon it . - I shall not trouble your lordships with any further ...
Strana 40
... appointed of his own usurped authority a board for the administration of the revenue , the members of which were expressly dispensed from recording their dissents , until they chose it ; and in that office , as in a great gulf , a most ...
... appointed of his own usurped authority a board for the administration of the revenue , the members of which were expressly dispensed from recording their dissents , until they chose it ; and in that office , as in a great gulf , a most ...
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Strana 229 - My Lords, what is it that we want here to a great act of national justice ? Do we want a cause, my Lords ? You have the cause of oppressed princes, of undone women of the first rank, of desolated provinces, and of wasted kingdoms. Do you want a criminal, my Lords ? When was there so much iniquity ever laid to the charge of any one ? No, my Lords, you must not look to punish any other such delinquent from India.
Strana 101 - Law and arbitrary power are in eternal enmity. Name me a magistrate, and I will name property ; name me power, and I will name protection. It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to...
Strana 229 - Warren Hastings has not left substance enough in India to nourish such another delinquent. My lords, is it a prosecutor you want? You have before you the Commons of Great Britain as prosecutors, and I believe, my lords, that the sun in his beneficent progress round the world does not behold a more glorious sight than that of men, separated from a remote people by the material...
Strana 230 - We have here all the branches of the royal family in a situation between majesty and subjection, between the sovereign and the subject, offering a pledge in that situation for the support of the rights of the crown and the liberties of the people, both which extremities they touch. My lords, we have a great hereditary peerage here — those who have their own honour, the honour of their ancestors and of their posterity, to guard...