of mine, speaking of his merits, was charged with having made a studied panegyric. I do not know what his was. Mine, I am sure, is a studied panegyric; the fruit of much meditation; the result of the observation of near twenty years. For my own part, I am happy that I have lived to see this day; I feel myself overpaid for the labours of eighteen years, when, at this late period, I am able to take my share, by one humble vote, in destroying a tyranny that exists to the disgrace of this nation, and the destruction of so large a part of the human species.

MR. BURKE'S SPEECH,

ON THE

MOTION MADE FOR PAPERS

RELATIVE TO

THE DIRECTION POR CHARGING THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S PRIVATE DEBTS TO EUROPEANS, ON THE REVENUES OF THE CARNATIC.

February 28th, 1785.

WITH AN

APPENDIX,

CONTAINING SEVERAL DOCUMENTS.

Ἐνταῦθα τί πράττειν ἐχρῆν ἄνδρα τῶν Πλάτωνος καὶ Αρίστ οτέλους ζηλωτὴν δογμάτων; ἆρα περιορᾷν ἀνθρώπους ἀθλίους τις κλέπταις ἐκδιδομένους, ἢ κατα δύναμιν ἀυτοῖς ἀμύνειν, ὄιμαι, ὡς ἤδη το κύκνειον ἐξάδουσι διὰ τό θεομισὲς ἐργαστήριον τῶν τοιούτων; Ἐμοὶ μὲν οὖν ἀισχρον εἶναι δοκεῖ τοὺς μὲν χιλι άρχους, ὅταν λείπωσι τὴν τάξιν, καταδικάζειν· τὴν δὲ ὑπὲρ ἀθλίων ἀνθρώπων ὑπολείπειν τάξιν, ὅταν δέῃ πρὸς κλεπτας ἀγωνίζεσθαι τοιούτους· καὶ ταῦτά τοῦ Θεοῦ συμμαχοῦντος ἡμῖν, ὥσπερ οὖν ἔταξεν.

JULIANI Epist. 17.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THAT the least informed reader of this speech may be enabled to enter fully into the spirit of the transaction on occasion of which it was delivered, it may be proper to acquaint him, that among the princes dependant on this nation in the southern part of India, the most considerable at present is commonly known by the title of the nabob of Arcot.

This prince owed the establishment of his government, against the claims of his elder brother, as well as those of other competitors, to the arms and influence of the British EastIndia company. Being thus established in a considerable part of the dominions he now possesses, he began, about the year 1765, to form, at the instigation (as he asserts) of the servants of the East-India company, a variety of designs for the further extension of his territories. Some years after, he carried his views to certain objects of interior arrangement, of a very pernicious nature. None of these designs could be compassed without the aid of the company's arms; nor could those arms be employed consistently, with an obedience to the company's orders. He was therefore advised to form a more secret, but an equally powerful interest