Speech relative to the Middlesex Election, February 7, 1771. Speech on a Bill for shortening the Duration of Parliaments, Speech on a Motion for a Committee to inquire into the State of the Representation of the Commons in Parliament, May 7, Speech on a Motion for Leave to bring in a Bill for explaining the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels, March 7, 1771. Together with a Letter in Vindication of that Meas- ure, and a Copy of the proposed Bill . Speech on a Bill for the Repeal of the Marriage Act, June 15, 1781 129 Speech on a Motion for Leave to bring in a Bill to quiet the Pos- VOL. VIII. Ninth Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of India, June 25, 1783. Observations on the State of the Company's Affairs in India Eleventh Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons Articles of Charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors against War- ren Hastings, Esq., late Governor-General of Bengal: presented 83 88 99 173 Part I. Rights and Titles of the Rajah of Benares cles of Charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors against War- ren Hastings, Esq., late Governor-General of Bengal: presented Part IV. Thanks of the Board to Fyzoola Khân Part VII. Consequences of the Treaty of Chunar Appendix to the Eighth and Sixteenth Charges 319 Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq., late Gov- Speech in Opening the Impeachment. Third Day: Monday, February 18, 1788 Fourth Day: Tuesday, February 19 Speech on the Sixth Article of Charge. First Day: Tuesday, April 21, 1789 Second Day: Saturday, April 25 Third Day: Tuesday, May 5 Fourth Day: Thursday, May 7. VOL. XI. Report from the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq., late Gov- 240 306 396 1 Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq., late Gov- ernor-General of Bengal. (Continued.) Speech in General Reply. Fifth Day: Saturday, June 7, 1794 Sixth Day: Wednesday, June 11 . Seventh Day: Thursday, June 12 3 75 143 235 335 INDEX. Accidental things ought to be carefully dis- Account, capital use of an, what, i. 511. effects of, as a means of reconciling ion of the cause of the grand effect Administration, Short Account of a Late censures on that administration, i. state of public affairs at the time of character and conduct of it, i. 388. character of a united administration, of a disunited one, i. 425. the administration should be corre- one of the principles which interest Adrian, first contracts the bounds of the Advice, compulsive, from constituents, its Aix, the Archbishop of, his offer of con- Akbar, the Emperor, obtains possession Alfred the Great, character and conduct his care and sagacity in improving the laws and institutions of Eng- Allegiance, oath of, remarkable one taken Alliance, one of the requisites of a good the famous Triple Alliance negotiated Ambition, one of the passions belonging nature and end of, i. 124. misery of disappointed, i. 335. ought to be influenced by popular influence of, iii. 107. one of the natural distempers of a legislative restraints on it in democ- not an exact calculator, vii. 82. 112. eloquent description of the rising glo- temper and character of its inhab- their spirit of liberty, whence, ii. 120, proposed taxation of, by grant in- danger in establishing a military gov- American Stamp Act, its origin, i. 385. reasons of the repeal, ii. 48. good effects of the repeal, i. 401; ii. Angles, in buildings, prejudicial to their Animals, their cries capable of convey- Anselm, appointed Archbishop of Can- supports Henry I. against his brother Arbitrary power, steals upon a people by lying dormant for a time, or by not recognized in the Gentoo code, xi. Arbitrary system, must always be a cor- danger in adopting it as a principle Ariosto, a criticism of Boileau on, vii. 154. too much spirit not a fault of the, i. general observations on the, iii. 415. regulations in some states with re- must submit to the dominion of pru- Aristotle, his caution against delusive his observations on the resemblance his distinction between tragedy and his natural philosophy alone un- his system entirely followed by Bede, Armies yield a precarious and uncertain Art, every work of, great only as it de- Artist, a true one effects the noblest de- Ascendency, Protestant, observations on Asers, their origin and conquests, vii. 228. the dreadful consequences of this Atheism by establishment, what, v. 310. Augustin, state of religion in Britain when Aulic Council, remarks on the, v. 119. her treaty of 1756 with France, de- Authority, its only firm seat in public the people the natural control on it, the exercise and control of it together the monopoly of it an evil, v. 151. Bacon, Lord, a remark of his applied to Bacon, N., his work on the laws of Eng- Bail, method of giving it introduced by advantage of it, vii. 265. Ball, John, abstract of a discourse of, iv. Ballot, all contrivances by it vain to pre. Balmerino, Lord, proceedings in his Banian, functions and character of the, Bank paper in England, owing to the Bards, the, character of their verses, vii 178. Bartholomew, St., massacre of, iii. 420. |