bition of individuals, and by that means the wif dom of his majesty's government degraded in the publick estimation, and the policy and character of this renowned nation rendered contemptible in the eyes of all Europe.

It paffed in the negative.

SUB

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MR. BURKE's SPEECH

ON THE

MOTION MADE FOR PAPERS

Relative to the Directions for charging

THE NABOB OF ARCOT's PRIVATE DEBTS TO EUROPEANS, ON THE REVENUES OF THE CARNATICK.

February 28th, 1785.

WITH AN

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING SEVERAL DOCUMENTS.

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· Ἐναῦθα τί πράττειν ἐχρῆν ἄνδρα τῶν Πλάτωνα καὶ Αριςοτέλους ζηλωτὴν δογμάτων ; ἄρα περιορᾷν ἀνθρώπες αθλίες τοις κλέπταις ἐκδιδομένες, ἢ κατα δύναμιν αὐτοῖς ἀμύ νειν, οιμαι, ὡς ἤδη το κύκνειον ἐξάδουσι διὰ τό θεομισὲς ἐργαστήριον τῶν τοιέτων ; Ἐμοὶ μὲν ἦν αισχρον εἶναι δοκεῖ τὰς μὲν χιλιάρχες, ὅταν λείπωσι τὴν τάξιν, καταδικάζειν την δὲ ὑπὲρ αθλίων ἀνθρῶπων ὑπολείπειν τάξιν, ὅταν δέῃ πρὸς κλεπίας αγωνίζησθαι τοιέτες· καὶ ταῦτά το Θε8 συμμαχον τος ἡμῖν, ὥσπερ ἂν ἔταξεν.

JULIANI Epist. 17.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THA

HAT the least informed reader of this speech may be enabled to enter fully into the fpirit of the tranfaction on occafion of which it was de livered, it may be proper to acquaint him, that among the princes dependent on this nation in the fouthern part of India, the most confiderable at prefent is commonly known by the title of the Nabob of Arcot.

This prince owed the establishment of his go vernment, against the claims of his elder brother, as well as thofe of other competitors, to the arms; and influence of the British Eaft India company. Being thus established in a confiderable part of the dominions he now poffeffes, he began, about the year 1765, to form, at the inftigation (as he afferts) of the fervants of the Eaft India company, a va riety of defigns for the further extension of his territories. Some years after, he carried his views to certain objects of interiour arrangement, of a very pernicious nature. None of these defigns could be compaffed without the aid of the company's arms; nor could thofe arms be employed confiftently with an obedience to the company's orders. He was therefore advised to form a more

fecret,