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共 31 段- When the ancient nobility, the great princes, (for such I ma
- But though Nundcomar was put out of the way by the means by
- He wrote over to the Court of Directors, that there were cer
- I do, then, declare my conviction, and wish it may stand rec
- There is a revenue in that country, raised by a tax more pro
- But to pursue this melancholy, but necessary detail. I am ne
- Things were now in a proper train; the Committee find the ca
- There is another circumstance that must strike your Lordship
- I believe your Lordships will conceive better of the spirit
- My Lords, these are the securities which we have in all the
- The first which we shall bring before you is his own passive
- Here Mr. Hastings confesses that the emoluments affixed to o
- There is another circumstance which serves to show that in t
- This is all that I think necessary to state to your Lordship
- Mr. Hastings had himself forgotten the character which he ha
- There are other circumstances in these accounts highly auxil
- If anything but conscious guilt could have possibly influenc
- But what is still more material and weighty, many particular
- I have another fact to lay before your Lordships, which affo
- But though this continued longer than was for the good of th
- I have now finished what I proposed to say relative to his g
- My Lords, this was Mr. Hastings's defence before the House o
- In the first place, if Mr. Hastings should die without havin
- Your Lordships have now before you this hundred thousand pou
- That private _ipse plaudo_ he may have in this business, whi
- You have seen him at Patna, at Calcutta, in the country, on
- I am almost ashamed to remark upon the tergiversations and
- Your Lordships will remark, in a paragraph, which, though it
- Of the deficiency which appears in this agreement with someb
- If the Company had a mind to inquire what is become of all t
- And now, my Lords, in what a situation are we all placed! Th