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... Corruption . Tuesday , 21st April , 1789 . Speech on the 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 ...
... Corruption . Tuesday , 21st April , 1789 . Speech on the 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 ...
Strana 26
... for Mr. Hastings to embody abuse , and to put himself at the head of a regular system of corruption . The Another circumstance in that service is deserving of no- tice . Except in the highest parts of all , 26 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF.
... for Mr. Hastings to embody abuse , and to put himself at the head of a regular system of corruption . The Another circumstance in that service is deserving of no- tice . Except in the highest parts of all , 26 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF.
Strana 31
... corruption ; but if you examine his conduct towards the corrupt body he describes , you would imagine he had lived in the speculative schemes of visionary perfection . He was fourteen years at the head of that service ; and there is not ...
... corruption ; but if you examine his conduct towards the corrupt body he describes , you would imagine he had lived in the speculative schemes of visionary perfection . He was fourteen years at the head of that service ; and there is not ...
Strana 32
... corruption , or other malversation , his course has been to answer little or nothing to that speci- fic bribery , corruption , or malversation ; his way has been to call on the court of directors to inquire of every servant who comes to ...
... corruption , or other malversation , his course has been to answer little or nothing to that speci- fic bribery , corruption , or malversation ; his way has been to call on the court of directors to inquire of every servant who comes to ...
Strana 101
... corruption . No , my lords , this arbitrary power is not to be had by con- quest . Nor can any sovereign have it by succession , for no man can succeed to fraud , rapine , and violence ; neither by compact , covenant , or submission ...
... corruption . No , my lords , this arbitrary power is not to be had by con- quest . Nor can any sovereign have it by succession , for no man can succeed to fraud , rapine , and violence ; neither by compact , covenant , or submission ...
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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...