Warren HastingsChautauqua Press, 1886 - 183 pages |
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... Pitt and Mr. Dundas in spite of the strenuous opposition of Mr. Burke , we conceive to be on the whole the best that was ever devised for the government of a country where no materials can be found for a representative constitution . In ...
... Pitt and Mr. Dundas in spite of the strenuous opposition of Mr. Burke , we conceive to be on the whole the best that was ever devised for the government of a country where no materials can be found for a representative constitution . In ...
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... Pitt , espoused the cause of Hastings with indecorous violence . Mr. Pitt , though he had cen- sured many parts of the Indian system , had studi- ously abstained from saying a word against the late chief of the Indian government . To ...
... Pitt , espoused the cause of Hastings with indecorous violence . Mr. Pitt , though he had cen- sured many parts of the Indian system , had studi- ously abstained from saying a word against the late chief of the Indian government . To ...
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... Pitt from calling Hastings to the House of Lords ; and had even said that , if the Chancellor of the Exchequer was afraid of the Commons , there was nothing to prevent the Keeper of the Great Seal WARREN HASTINGS . 147.
... Pitt from calling Hastings to the House of Lords ; and had even said that , if the Chancellor of the Exchequer was afraid of the Commons , there was nothing to prevent the Keeper of the Great Seal WARREN HASTINGS . 147.
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... Pitt , woke him , and was closeted with him many hours . The result of this conference was a determination to give up the late Governor - General to the vengeance of the Opposition . It was impossible even for the most powerful minister ...
... Pitt , woke him , and was closeted with him many hours . The result of this conference was a determination to give up the late Governor - General to the vengeance of the Opposition . It was impossible even for the most powerful minister ...
Page 153
... Pitt was the least likely to submit with patience to such an encroachment on his functions . If the Commons impeached Hastings , all danger was at an end . The proceeding , however it might terminate , would probably last some years ...
... Pitt was the least likely to submit with patience to such an encroachment on his functions . If the Commons impeached Hastings , all danger was at an end . The proceeding , however it might terminate , would probably last some years ...
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Page 159 - ... precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too, was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs.
Page 158 - There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Page 163 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank...
Page 163 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed.
Page 86 - A reign of terror began, of terror heightened by mystery ; for even that which was endured was less horrible than that which was anticipated. No man knew what was next to be expected from this strange tribunal.
Page 91 - I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour.
Page 170 - But those who, having been present on the first day, now bore a part in the proceedings of the last, were few ; and most of those few were altered men. As Hastings himself said, the arraignment had taken place before one generation, and the judgment was pronounced by another. The spectator could not look at the woolsack, or at the red benches of the Peers, or at the green benches of the Commons, without seeing something that reminded him of the instability of all human things, of the instability...
Page 182 - ... one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
Page 115 - Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.
Page 31 - ... with contempt. All those arts which are the natural defence of the weak are more familiar to this subtle race than to the Ionian of the time of Juvenal, or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive...