The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke Volume VII: India: The Hastings Trial 1789-1794

by Burke, Edmund; Marshall, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780198208099
• ISBN10: 019820809X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-11
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This key volume specifically completes the collection of Edmund Burke's Indian Writings and Speeches which is set within the series, and is both an exposition of Burke's views on India from his coverage of the Hastings trial, and his views on maintaining the rule of a universal justice. The texts for the items, which have appeared in previous editions of Burke's Works, have been reconstructed, largely by the use of manuscripts. Indeed many of the shorter speeches appear here in print for the first time. The volume includes a key speech which introduced one of the main charges in the trial of Warren Hastings on an impeachment from 1789-1794, and an important report on the conduct of the trial. It closes with the enormously lengthy and significant speech in which Burke summed up the prosecution'scase over nine days. However, this volume is not only a full exposition of Burke's views on India but contains much of great interest about other aspects of his thought. In particular, Burke saw himself in these years as being engaged in a battle against the lawless disruption of society, both in Europe and in Asia, inorder to maintain the rule of a universal justice, a main theme of this volume.

Author Biography

P J Marshall is editor of the two previous volumes of Burke's Writings and Speeches on India

Table of Contents

List of Short Titles	xiii
Introduction	1	(23)
Sources	24	(3)
Notes on Transcription	27	(2)
Note on Currency	29	(2)
The Texts
Speech on Sixth Article: Presents	31	(34)
21 April 1789	32	(28)
7 May 1789	60	(5)
Speech on Hastings's Petition	65	(6)
27 April 1789
Speech on Libel on House of Commons	71	(3)
16 June 1789
Speech on Resolutions on Future of the Impeachment	74	(6)
11 May 1790
Speech on Continuation of the Impeachment	80	(14)
23 December 1790
Speech on Limitation of the Impeachment	94	(13)
14 February 1791
Speech on Committee on State of the Impeachment	107	(3)
28 May 1793
Report on the Lords Journals	110	(103)
30 April 1794
Impeachment Proceedings: Protest	213	(11)
6 May 1794
Speech on Report on Lords Journals	224	(2)
23 May 1794
Speech in Reply	226	(468)
28 May 1794	231	(50)
30 May 1794	281	(54)
3 June 1794	335	(47)
5 June 1794	382	(50)
7 June 1794	432	(48)
11 June 1794	480	(44)
12 June 1794	524	(61)
14 June 1794	585	(68)
16 June 1794	653	(41)
Speech on Vote of Thanks to Managers	694	(3)
20 June 1794
Appendix A: List of Burke's Speeches and Writings on India 1789--1794	697	(12)
Index	709