Orators of EnglandGuy Carleton Lee G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 |
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allies arrear authority Begums Benfield bill British called Carnatic cent charge Charles James Fox claim Commonwealth of England Company conduct Constitution corrupt court of directors creditors crimes Cromwell debt declaration defence duty Earl Edmund Burke eloquence endeavor enemies England English favor France friends give Hastings hath heart honorable baronet House of Commons hundred Hyder Ali India inquiry interest jaghires judge justice King kingdom liberty Lordships Madras Majesty Majesty's means measures ment Middleton ministers Nabob of Arcot nation nature negotiation never noble Lord Oliver Cromwell opinion oppression orators oratory Parlia Parliament peace person Port Eliot possession pounds sterling present pretended prince principles reason revenues Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Cromwell right honorable gentleman ruin secret influence sentiments servants soucars speak Speaker speech spirit Tanjore things thought thousand pounds tion transaction trust usury whole
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Էջ 144 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country.
Էջ 134 - ... of the woods — to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment : unless thoroughly done away, it will be a stain on the national character.
Էջ 144 - God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalpingknife— to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering, roasting, and eating; literally, my Lords, eating the mangled victims of his barbarous battles! Such horrible notions shock every precept of religion, divine or natural, and every generous feeling of humanity.
Էջ 118 - Power without right is the most odious and detestable object that can be offered to the human imagination. It is not only pernicious to those who are subject to it, but tends to its own destruction...
Էջ 216 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.
Էջ 202 - Let no man hereafter talk of the decaying energies of Nature. All the acts and monuments in the records of peculation, the consolidated corruption of ages, the patterns of exemplary plunder in the heroic times of Roman iniquity, never equalled the gigantic corruption of this single act. Never did Nero, in all the insolent prodigality of despotism, deal out to his...
Էջ 216 - Both before, and since that treaty, every principle of policy pointed out this power as a natural alliance ; and on his part it was courted by every sort of amicable office. But the cabinet council of English creditors would not suffer...
Էջ 129 - I CANNOT, my lords, I WILL NOT join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment : it is not a time for adulation : the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne, in the language of TRUTH.
Էջ 216 - They declared the Nabob of Arcot to be his sovereign, and himself to be a rebel, and publicly invested their instrument with the sovereignty of the kingdom of Mysore. But their victim was not of the passive kind. They were soon obliged to conclude a treaty of peace and close alliance with this rebel at the gates of Madras. Both before and since...
Էջ 218 - ... hundred a day in the streets of Madras; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets, or on the glacis of Tanjore, and expired of famine in the granary of India.