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SPEECH
ON
THE SIXTH ARTICLE OF CHARGE.
THIRD DAY: TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1789.
My Lords,--Agreeably to your Lordships' proclamation, which I have just
heard, and the duty enjoined me by the House of Commons, I come forward
to make good their charge of high crimes and misdemeanors against Warren
Hastings, Esquire, late Governor-General of Bengal, and now a prisoner
at your bar.
My Lords, since I had last the honor of standing in this place before
your Lordships,
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
My Lords, I have been disavowed by
those who sent me here to represent them. My Lords, I have been
disavowed in a material part of that engagement which I had pledged
myself to this House to perform. My Lords, that disavowal has been
followed by a censure. And yet, my Lords, so censured and so disavowed,
and by such an authority, I am sent here again, to this the place of my
offence, under the same commission, by the same authority, to make good
the same charge, against the same...
Burke, Edmund
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The Right Honourable Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator and political philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is chiefly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the struggle against King George III that led to the American Revolution, as well as for his strong opposition to the French Revolution. The latter made Burke one of the leading figures within the conservative faction of the Whig party (which he dubbed the "Old Whigs"), in opposition to the pro-revolutionary "New Whigs," led by Charles James Fox. Burke also published philosophical work on aesthetics and founded the Annual Register, a political review. In his day he was considered one of the finest parliamentary orators in Britain.
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